Something doesn’t smell right.
Roosevelt Island residents are demanding the city halt its emergency demolition of the iconic but decrepit local industrial steam plant that has them holding their noses and concerned about toxins.
Activists have claimed the site is “very likely” filled with dangerous toxins that will be released into the air with the upcoming project — but say they can’t be certain because the city won’t let them see related environmental records.
“It’s for sure very contaminated because it was created in the 1930s, and that’s when a lot of carcinogens were used,” said a rep for the Architectural Community Alliance of Roosevelt Island, a nonprofit resident coalition that contends it is “statistically very likely” that typical industrial toxins such as lead paint, asbestos, mercury and fuel oil No. 6 were used in its construction and would be released with demolition…