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jtormey@optonline.net
URGENT
Thursday,
April 18, 2024
VIA
U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Letitia
James, Attorney General
Anna
Brower, Chief Of Staff
Office
of the New York State Attorney General
The
Capitol
Albany, NY 12224-0341 USA
VIA
FAX: 1-914-422-8706, U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
Andy
Aujla, Assistant Attorney General
Office
of the New York State Attorney General
44
South Broadway
White
Plains, NY 10601 USA
VIA
U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
Office
of the New York State Attorney General
Press
Office
The
Capitol
Albany, NY 12224-0341 USA
Re:
The Deliberate Paving-Over Of A Former Sunoco Gasoline Station And
Suspected Toxic Site
Location: 447-477 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York, 10968 USA
Dear
Attorney General James, Chief Of Staff Brower, Assistant Attorney General Aujla,
and Colleagues:
Thank
you for your attention to this letter. It is my carefully-considered opinion
that this matter is ripe for pursuit by your offices as a criminal one, for the
reasons which I set forth hereinbelow upon information and belief.
What
has prompted my letter to you today are the unsavory activities of a New Jersey
real estate developer and its individual associates, seeking to place a
behemoth, overstuffed 14-unit residential building - while at the same time
potentially paving-over what is a former Sunoco gasoline station site believed
to be toxic - on a small property in the very center of the picturesque and
historic Village of Piermont, New York:
Piermont
is directly appurtenant to the Hudson River, as you may know. The location of
the property at issue is 447-477 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York, 10968
USA. My understanding is that the reason for the hyphenated address, is the
fact that this location is comprised of three or four smaller plots which were
deliberately combined for the purpose of the wrongful development activity in
question.
The
developer entity threatening to build over and on top of this potentially-toxic
site is known as “Piermont Developers Limited Liability Company” alias
“Piermont Developers, LLC”, a New Jersey “LLC” whose status has been revoked
for seven (7) years or more by the State of New Jersey for failing to file and
pay its Annual Reports. The last-known Manager, Member, and Managing Member of
“Piermont Developers Limited Liability Company” is one Gerard M. (Jerry)
Polidoro, an individual who was slammed by the New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection (NJDEP) about a decade ago for failing to remediate a
(different) toxic gasoline station site in Bergenfield, New Jersey:
It
is therefore beyond comprehension to the citizens of Piermont how lightning
could be allowed to strike twice in this regard.
According
to a Deed for a component portion of the 447-477 Piermont Avenue property, the
recent buyers and current owners of that portion of the property identified as “475
Piermont Avenue” appear to be the same “Piermont Developers Limited Liability
Company” alias “Piermont Developers, LLC", and Gerard M. (Jerry)
Polidoro:
A
map of 475 Piermont Avenue can be found here:
I
am writing to you to therefore try to stop a potential environmental nightmare-in-the-making
which is unfolding before my eyes and the eyes of the people of the Village of
Piermont. At minimum, the residents of the Village of Piermont need immediate NYAG
attention paid to this serious environmental and health threat. The reason
that, in my opinion, I believe this matter is ripe for pursuit by your offices
as a criminal one, is because both the developers and the soft Village of
Piermont government thusfar appear to be steamrollering ahead to pave over this
likely-toxic site deliberately. Until most of the site was fenced-off yesterday,
the site has been used as a parking lot for about 24 to 35 cars at a time, and
has been used as such from at least as far back as the 1990s – which alone
raises serious environmental concerns in this context.
While I do not believe that politics should play a part in anything like this, you actually should be made aware in this case, to the extent you are not already aware, that the Chair of the Village of Piermont Planning Board is one Daniel Spitzer, brother of disgraced former New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer of “Client 9”, black socks, and hotel folding-girlfriend luggage infamy:
https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2007/03/25/dan-spitzer-gov-s-brother/52945306007/
https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2007/03/25/dan-spitzer-gov-s-brother/52945306007/
I
am asking the NYAG office to please stop the development of the property at
447-477 Piermont Avenue in Piermont, New York, compel the environmental
remediation of that site, and investigate the Piermont Village Planning Board
and Piermont Zoning Board of Appeals for its participation in and facilitation
of this toxic nightmare. I urge you and your NYAG colleagues to please attend
to this matter, and use every possible NYAG resource to protect the residents
of the Village of Piermont, New York. The people of the Village need you, and
the people of the Village are counting on you.
Thank
you for your careful consideration of this letter.
Respectfully submitted,
John J. Tormey III, Esq.
