Duke Kaboom: I know the area well. I'd be much more worried about living in Gowanus or Red Hook

At least in my area, 55+ housing is the only multifamily housing that gets approved for building, because it adds to the tax base without adding students to the school district.

I do think that 55+ housing communities probably shouldn’t be legal, in our current era of housing crisis that’s hitting younger people hard.

Also, in one rather hilarious instance, a gigantic 55+ development is going up on... land that is too toxic to allow children to live on, because it was a mechanical gauge factory before WWII, and the ground is saturated with unremediated mercury and other toxins.

Large sections of Brooklyn, particularly along the waterfront are likely cancer clusters due to years of industrial usage

Yeah, I lived like a block from the Brooklyn Army Terminal for ten years, moved away when my daughter was 9 months old, and I regularly hope I don't get super- cancer from it.

I know the area well. I'd be much more worried about living in Gowanus or Red Hook

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