Police have identified the man who was found dead in Newtown Creek three months ago, making him the fifth person who has died ...

Gaze in wonder upon the fabled Newtown Creek of the 21st century, as a tug of the Poling and Cutler towing organization wrestles a fuel barge in a westerly course toward the East River past the Vernon ...

Newtown Creek is known among local residents and environmentalists as being one of the most polluted ecological sites in the continental U.S. The creek, which runs for roughly 3.5 miles between ...

Don’t be alarmed by floating objects in Newtown Creek — they might be art. Laura Chipley, Nathan Kensinger, and Sarah Nelson Wright will launch several radio-controlled miniature boats onto Newtown ...

Let’s face it: Newtown Creek, the waterway that forms the border between western Queens and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has been a disgrace for far too long. For years, I and my colleagues in the New York ...

Leave this field empty if you're human: Urban wilderness takes some funky forms. And one of the funkiest bits of urban wilderness you’ll find in the entire borough of Brooklyn is on the shoreline of ...

Just when environmentalists were starting to see signs of life in Newtown Creek, they discovered that more used oil was being dumped into the Superfund site. Sheens and slicks have been repeatedly ...

The Gowanus Canal gets all the attention, but Newtown Creek is so much more disgusting. That filthy bill of health comes from clean water activist Christopher Swain — and he should know, given his ...

It takes a certain type of person to get up on a Saturday morning to take a tour of an industrial wasteland. That type of person would be me, and about 20 others, who couldn’t resist the Atlas Obscura ...