by Caroline Spivack, dna info (NY)

A contaminated Con Edison site that once housed a 19th century baseball stadium is finally slated for an environmental cleanup, officials with the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced. 

Con Edison's Yard Service Center - bound by First and Third streets and Third and Fourth avenues - will undergo a cleanse as part of the state's Brownfield Cleanup Program, which gives developers tax breaks in exchange for reviving polluted land. 

State officials are taking public comment through Sept. 8 on how to investigate the site's contamination. 

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