This impossibly cute kitten was rescued from the corner of N. 11th Street and Roebling yesterday, in front of the Roebling Oil Field by the blogger who brings us Bad Advice. She found him a home, then the person who was going to take him apparently didn’t, so as of last night, it looks like […]

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[Photo courtesy of Bad Advice] The Department of Environmental Conservation’s Spill Team was spotted in front of the Roebling Oil Field yesterday, but it’s unclear whether they were checking out test wells, cruising the hood, stopping to siphon some fuel from underground or just socializing (or whatever) with the two gentlemen in the photo. The […]

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The time is drawing closer for the oily past at the Roebling Oil Field site to be out of sight, if not entirely out of mind. The western end of the site is now under concrete. Soon, all that will be left to remind us are those little wells on N. 11th Street and on […]

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Don’t look now, but Roebling Street in Williamsburg has more oil wells. Actually, they are monitoring wells. Several were recently drilled around the Roebling Oil Field months after oil began oozing onto the site of the McCarren Park Mews condo development. Several more have now been placed on N. 10th and N. 9th Streets and […]

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Part of McCarren Park Mews–AKA the Roebling Oil Field–is about to hit the three-story mark. The oil underneath that part of the building is but a hidden memory now, although there are test wells in the street out front to keep the reality of the oil field alive. However, the western end of the site […]

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