The assigned subject matter for the mural was ”themes taken from the activities” of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), a government agency headquartered in the Interior Building.
We reached out to Battaglia for comment on the lawsuit and waited for hours but did not hear back.In February 1937, American artist Maynard Dixon was invited by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, a New Deal arts program, to paint a two‐panel mural for the new Department of the Interior Building in Washington, D.C. "I've said all along, we're not trying to put him out of business, we just want the dust and the rocks to stop," said Robinson. Schneiderman said the facility has been cited repeatledly for various law violations by the City of Buffalo and the state, and Battaglia has disregarded six notices of violation from the DEC, telling them he would never submit court-ordered permit applications. "We are very thankful that the attorney general took the case on and is doing, trying to help address some of the issues," said Weaver. In taking this action, I stand with the Seneca-Babcock community to ensure their right to a safe, clean, and healthy environment," said Schneiderman, D-New York. "I am committed to bringing these harms to an end, and holding Battaglia fully accountable for blatantly and knowingly disregarding both the law and the well-being of the community. Otherwise, they're possibly going to get hit by a truck, you know, the way they speed up and down, it's just crazy," said Jill Weaver, who lives on Peabody Street, which borders the facility.Īfter years of complaints about what neighbors call unbearable conditions, State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is taking action. He's suing owner and operator Peter Battaglia, saying the dust, noise, odors, vermin and truck traffic have created a public nuisance, and the facility is operating illegally without required state environmental permits. The kids can't play basketball, we have a basketball hoop out front, they can't play with it.
"We don't spend too much time here during the summer because you really can't. "If you live on Peabody Street, you can't even sit on your front porch because the dust is so bad, you can't breathe, and you're constantly cleaning," said Art Robinson, president of the Seneca Babcock Community Block Club. People who live in Buffalo's Seneca Babock neighborhood say the conditions caused by the Battaglia Demolition Facility have become unbearable.
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