For years, industrial sites that once fueled the city’s economy have sat idle and deteriorating in and around residential areas. Now, the brownfields are presenting an opportunity for residents to re-invent their neighborhoods.
Codie Bascue sat in his maroon-and-white rocket and prepared for ignition. All systems were go. Confidence was high. Ten seconds, and counting. Shan Beebe, Bascue’s friend and partner, gripped the back of the 7-foot-long ship and scanned the ramp of thick, hard ice just ahead. Moments later, a safety light blinked green. Beebe took three quick steps and pushed the 450-pound rocket, down the bobsled run at Mount Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid....
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