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BOSTON
Two sets of old piers sit in the water rotting in the middle of Boston's famed Charlestown Navy Yard, now an upscale residential neighborhood and home to one of the city's most popular historic attractions.
City and state regulators say the piers have reached a dangerous state of disrepair.
Their owners: two companies, each of whose sole manager is Martin Oliner, mayor of the Nassau County village of Lawrence.
The Massachusetts attorney general filed a request for an injunction Thursday asking that Oliner and the companies be ordered to take steps immediately to repair Pier 6 and Pier 8, collectively called Shipyard Quarters Marina.
The filing said the piers have become "dangerous" and pose "a serious, ongoing threat to vessels and users at the Marina, the public, and safe navigation in Boston Harbor."
City and state officials say Oliner has failed to respond to demands he improve the piers.
"The Shipyard Quarters Marina is in disrepair and clearly out of compliance," Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino said in a statement to Newsday. "The owner has continued to demonstrate utter disregard for the safety of the residents of Charlestown."
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley also filed Thursday a lawsuit seeking more than $10 million in civil penalties from Oliner and the two companies for violating the state's Waterways Act.
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