With our partner East New York Farms

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    With our partner East New York Farms!, OER distributed 204 bags of topsoil to 27 people at the season’s first soil giveaway on Saturday, May 6, 2023.

113 Hamilton

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    113 Hamilton Avenue has won the 2023 Big Apple Brownfield Award for Innovative Remediation for its improvement to public health and the environment in the Columbia Street Waterfront District in Brooklyn.

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Bay View Houses

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    OER delivers free topsoil to farms at NYCHA’s Bay View Houses (pictured on the left) and Howard Houses in Brooklyn.

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Millbrook Building

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    Nonprofit developer West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing completes OER's cleanup program and builds new affordable senior housing on NYCHA land in the Bronx.
BK Rot Site Reuse

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    Community composting group, BK ROT, expands its Brooklyn composting service onto a vacant City lot where they will make and distribute compost and topsoil, provide composting education, and create a community green space for Bushwick residents.

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The New York City Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation is a team of scientists and engineers that design and operate municipal programs to promote cleanup and redevelopment of vacant contaminated land in NYC.

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What's New at OER

10/31/2023: OER has resumed free delivery of clean soil and topsoil to community and school gardens. We deliver up to 6 cubic yards of material and will continue this service through December 2023. If your garden needs soil or topsoil, fill out an online request form and OER will work to arrange a delivery.

5/26/2022: The City stockpile (at 830 Forbell Street, Brooklyn) has 16,000 cubic yards of clean soil available for construction projects that need backfill. If your project team is interested in obtaining free clean soil, contact OER or call 212-788-8841.

5/19/2021: The City’s clean soil stockpile in East New York receives and distributes clean soil to City, private and community projects at no cost except for trucking. The stockpile is open every Tuesday and Wednesday and on a third day each week based on demand. In addition to clean soil, NYC DOT offers free RCA (recycled concrete aggregate that is 3/4” minus) also at no cost except for trucking. Parties interested in either material should contact OER.

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OER Metrics

Acres Remediated490

Units of Affordable Housing24,800

New City Tax Revenue$372M