Thrills, Spills, And Petroleum Bulk Storage.

NOTE AND UPDATE: IN ALL LIKELIHOOD IN RESPONSE TO THIS AND OTHER RELATED BLOG ENTRIES, CRAIG WEIS, ESQ. AND FRANK DECARLO (1) REINSTATED "PIERMONT DEVELOPERS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY" FROM A 7-PLUS YEAR FILING DEFAULT, (2) THEREBY SOUGHT TO PURGE JERRY POLIDORO FROM THAT LLC'S RECORD, AND (3) CHANGED THE LLC'S ADDRESS FROM NORWOOD NJ TO HACKENSACK NJ. HOWEVER, AS LAST-KNOWN, JERRY POLIDORO STILL APPEARS ON THE DEED FOR 475 PIERMONT AVENUE IN PIERMONT NEW YORK, AS SHOWN HERE: 

https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/piermont-new-york-meet-your-new-475.html

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Friday, May 3, 2024
 
VIA U.S. MAIL, and E-MAIL:
cumminsj@dec.ny.gov
operatortraining@dec.ny.gov
Joshua Cummins
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) – Region 3
21 South Putt Corners Road
New Paltz, New York 12561 USA
 
VIA U.S. MAIL and E-MAIL:
sweeneym@dec.ny.gov
operatortraining@dec.ny.gov
Mary Sweeney
Geologist – Spills and Petroleum Bulk Storage
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) – Region 3
21 South Putt Corners Road
New Paltz, New York 12561 USA
 
Re:

The Apparently-Deliberate Paving-Over Of A Former Gasoline Station Site
Location: 447-477 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York, 10968 USA
 
Dear Ms. Sweeney and Mr. Cummins:
 
I write to both of you as a duo for now, because it is not yet manifest as to which of you might assert jurisdiction over this matter. However, an external threat like this would I am sure be considered a threat by each of you.
 
What has prompted my letter to each of you 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 paving-over a former Sunoco Gasoline Station site believed to be toxic located on a small property - in the very center of the beautiful and historic Village of Piermont, New York, in the Hudson Valley. Piermont is directly appurtenant to the Hudson River, as you likely know. The already-culled photographic evidence makes it clear that the Sunoco Gasoline Station must have used underground gasoline tanks:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/bringing-it-on-home-sunoco-gasoline.html
 
The Sunoco General Counsel’s office recently informed me that gasoline stations of that era would often deploy “phantom” (unregistered) underground gasoline tanks as well.
 
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 hyphenate address, is the fact that this location is comprised of four (4) smaller plots which were deliberately combined for the purpose of the development activity in question:
- 447 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York, 10968 USA.
- 457 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York, 10968 USA.
- 475 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York, 10968 USA.
- 477 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York, 10968 USA.
 
The further property-description is:
Tax Assessment Map of the Village of Piermont.
Section 75.55.
Block 1.
Lot 1.1.
Lot 13.
Lot 14.1.
Lot 14.2.
Apparently “in the CB §61.6 C zone”.
 
The developer entity that I understand is threatening to build over this potentially toxic site is known as “Piermont Developers Limited Liability Company” alias “Piermont Developers, LLC”, a New Jersey “LLC” whose status was 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 your ancestral counterparts at 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:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/flashback-to-2015-polidoro-properties.html
 
According to a Deed which I reviewed for a 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 self-same "Piermont Developers Limited Liability Company” alias “Piermont Developers, LLC", and Gerard M. (Jerry) Polidoro:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/04/piermont-new-york-meet-your-new-475.html
 
I am writing to you to therefore try to stop a potential environmental harm-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 continued NYSDEC attention paid to this environmental threat. Until the property was fenced-in with an opaque plastic shroud and “Keep Out” signs concealing one or more “CAT” diggers about a week-and-a-half ago, it had been used as a parking lot for about 35 cars at a time and has been used as such from at least as far back as the 1990s – which alone should also raise serious environmental concerns. Additionally, ecologically-sensitive Piermont was once a paper mill village, and has already had more than its share of other environmental problems given its checkered environmental history otherwise.
 
I urge you and your colleagues to please visit Piermont, New York immediately - attend to this potential nightmare-in-the-making - and use every possible resource of the New York State government to protect the New Yorkers who live in 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, each of you, for your careful consideration to this letter.
 
Respectfully submitted, and Excelsior,

John J. Tormey III, Esq.