For years, Nick Biancorosso says, the nose-pinching odor of oil periodically invaded his house, and those of his neighbors, on Utica Avenue in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn.
For years when it rained, police officers in the 50th Precinct station house say, their basement locker room flooded and they had to dress in puddles of water tainted with petroleum from a fuel spill beneath the building.
