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The Meeker Avenue Plume extends underneath numerous homes and businesses in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, including these residential buildings on Nassau Avenue. Photo taken on Sept. 30, 2021
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The Meeker Avenue Plume extends underneath numerous restaurants, businesses and apartments in East Williamsburg, including the Hungry Burrito on Morgan Avenue and Beadel Street, Sept. 30th, 2021
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Megerian Rug Cleaners on Division Street is one of many dry cleaning businesses that are still in operation above the Meeker Avenue Plume, Sept. 30th, 2021
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A number of scrap yards and metal fabricators are also still in operation above the Meeker Avenue Plume, including this metal recycling facility on Lombardy Street and Vandervoort Avenue, Sept. 30th, 2021
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