Ten Tons of Dirt on Cadman Plaza West

It took all day but finally a work crew consisting of a handful of York gardeners ("It's a Dirty Job!") and a building super with a mini bulldozer finally cleaned up what one engineer estimated to be at least ten tons of deep, rich loam, spilled onto Cadman Plaza West behind 75 Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights. It happened when the truck hauling it gave up the ghost as it backed into position.

The 32-story tower/ townhouse complex, which converted from a middle-income project to a private co-op a couple of years ago, has been on quite the gardening tear recently, planting hundreds of bushes and trees, installing trellises, and hauling in truckload after truckload of dirt ...

Photos by MK Metz