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Newtown Creek

From: Jess Mador
Length: 10:16

A trip to the most polluted urban waterway in the United States --and the neighborhoods around it Read the full description.

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Playing: Newtown Creek
From: Jess Mador

Default-piece-image-2 As the North Brooklyn waterfront gentrifies, one eyesore remains--Newtown Creek. Mostly ignored for more than a century, the creek has begun to attract attention. The city is now rezoning the waterfront near the creek. And Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes recently announced more charges in his ongoing crackdown against polluting waterfront businesses. Reporter Jess Mador reports on how neighborhood environmentalists are hoping the attention can be harnessed to highlight the creek's condition---and the health problems surrounding it.

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Piece Description

As the North Brooklyn waterfront gentrifies, one eyesore remains--Newtown Creek. Mostly ignored for more than a century, the creek has begun to attract attention. The city is now rezoning the waterfront near the creek. And Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes recently announced more charges in his ongoing crackdown against polluting waterfront businesses. Reporter Jess Mador reports on how neighborhood environmentalists are hoping the attention can be harnessed to highlight the creek's condition---and the health problems surrounding it.

Broadcast History

broadcast once on WFUV in New York--Saturday, Oct. 1st at 6am.

Transcript

NEWTOWN CREEK
TRT: 9:52

INTRO: As the North Brooklyn waterfront gentrifies, one eyesore remains--Newtown Creek. Mostly ignored for more than a century, the creek has begun to attract attention. The city is now rezoning the waterfront near the creek. And Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes recently announced more charges in his ongoing crackdown against polluting waterfront businesses. Reporter Jess Mador reports on how neighborhood environmentalists are hoping the attention can be harnessed to highlight the creek's condition---and the health problems surrounding it.

(amb of creek under narration)

Narration:
One trip up Newtown Creek is all it takes to see how it earned its reputation as the most polluted urban waterway in the country. Its banks are lined with oil
and gas terminals, cement and other factories. The smell coming off the water thickens the a...
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