45th Rd. 46th Rd. Court 6 46th Ave. Court Sq. 43rd Ave. Pearson St. Square 7 Sunnyside Railyard Davis St. (E,G,M,7) 47th Ave. Austell Pl. 2 NY State Remediation Sites 47th Rd. Crane St. 8 Thomson Ave. 1) Queens West Parcel 11 5 2) Queens West Parcel 8 Queens Midtown Tunnel 48th Ave. Skillman Ave. 33 St (7) 3) Kosan Industrial Corp. LaGuardia 34th St. . Queens Blvd. 4) Arch Street Yards (LIRR) vd 3 Community l B 52 St (7) r Hunters Point Ave. 11th St. College 5) Neptune Meter Site e Vernon Blvd. Jackson Ave. 4 40 St (7) Introduction t 50th Ave. n (LGCC) 6) 44-30 Purves Street Newtown Creek is a 3.8 mile waterway connected to the East River and serves as the border between Western e 21th St. C Queens and North . The Creek was originally a salt marsh environment with numerous fresh water streams Smiling BB-026 LIC Roots 46 St (7) 7) ACCO Brands, Inc. 3rd Ave. Hunters Hogshead feeding into brackish waters including plentiful amounts of fish and shellfish harvested by native Lenape tribes and 51st Ave. Point Ave 8) ACCO Brands, Inc. 5th St. early European colonialists. As the Creek became a hub for industrial activity in the 19th century, the environment 495 (LIRR) 9) Active Steel DrumQueens Co Inc. Blvd. Hunters Point Hunters was drastically altered to accommodate factories and maritime use; this included filling in marsh, bulkheading Vernon Blvd - 47th Ave. 10) Roehr Chemicals Inc. South Park Long Island City Jackson Ave (7) Point Ave (7) shorelines and deepening channels. By the early 20th century the Creek became one of the busiest waterways (LIRR) LONG ISLAND CITY 11) Review Avenue Development I in theMURRAY country, carrying more value and volume of cargo than the entire Mississippi River. Goods manufactured in 12) Quanta Resources the area included fertilizers, chemicals, glues, ropes, dyes and many varieties of petroleum products. However, the 2nd St. 495 13) Quanta Resources decline of American manufacturing after World War II led to abandoned and underutilized properties as well as loss Dutch Kills 51st St. HILL Sunnyside 14) Phelps Dodge of skilled jobs in the area. Heavy industrial use, with insignificant environmental regulation and protection, left a 25th St. BB-040 48th Ave. BB-009 QUEENS Library 15) Maspeth Substation HUNTERS 54th Ave. legacy of toxic contamination, still present within the sediments of the Creek. In 2010, the Creek was declared a Borden Ave. Van Dam St. federal Superfund site. Pulaski Bridge 27th St. Hunters Point Avenue Bridge 16) W.L.K. Corp. POINT HarborLAB 1954, 39’ clearance 23rd St. 1910 (rebuilt 1980s), 5’ clearance 17) Cornish Knit Goods BB-014 BB-015 32nd Pl. 18) Ingraham Street Sidewalk GW 2nd Ave. BB-013 33rd Pl. 1 Vernon 34th St. BB-043 Hunters Point Ave. 35th St. 19) Popular Hand Laundry Active Bulkheads Boulevard 36th St. Bridge BB-010 37th St. At it’s busiest, Newtown Creek was home to 500 manufacturing businesses. Over 15,000 vessels traversed the BB-049 Montauk Cutoff 38th St. 20) 353 McKibben Street k NCB-022 NCB-021 REACH B (MARION REACH) (Dutch Kills) Bridge 39th St. Greenpoint Ave. e BB-004 30th St. waterway annually. As recently as the 1950′s, ocean-going freighters were a common sight as far east as Maspeth. e Manhattan 30th Pl. 21) 2 Ingraham Street e year built, 14’ clearance 31st St. Gale Ave. v r i C 31st Pl. These days, maritime traffic is less active, but rthere are still many working waterfront facilities which primarily Avenue North Brooklyn BB-042 Borden Avenue Bridge 22) Scholes St. Station D REACH A n 1908, 4’ clearance handle waste and petroleum products as indicated on this map. Moving bulk materials by barge is more efficient w Boat Club R o Motiva 23) Frito Lay economically and environmentally. A single bargeD has the same capacity as 28 – 56 long haul trucks, depending on t Ash St. SUNNYSIDE F w Enterprises 24) Scientific Fire Prevention Inc. the industry. Compared to other transportation modes, barge transport of bulk materials is safer in terms of worker e NCB-023 REACH L N LIRR (Dutch Kills) Bridge Starr Ave. 25) Bennett Trucking Corp. injuries, generates far fewer toxic air emissions and reduces maintenance costs for roads and bridges. Box St. DEP Nature 1921, 2’ clearance Paidge Ave. 26) 49thGreenpoint St. MGP - Energy Center

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35 Sims Metal 40th St. Review Ave. 27) Klink Cosmo Cleaners 41st St. Celtic Ave. Management 42nd St. Clay St. Bradley Ave. 9 43th St. 28) Acme Architectural Products Street23rd St. Access Sites 44th St. 45th St. Newtown Creek is lacking in public access. As of 2015, there are only two officially recognized public spaces on the NCB-024 Railroad Ave. 34th St. Lon 46th St. 29) Acme Architectural Products g 47th St. REACH C Isl an 48th St. Creek: the Manhattan Ave Street End (NYC Parks Department) and The Newtown Creek Nature Walk (NYC Dept. of Newtown Barge 36 Dupont St. d E 30) Soap Manufacturer Commercial St. xpy Q Environmental Protection). A number of other street end sites around the creek provide potential for public access, Playground Greenpoint . uee and Lacquer Storage Allocco ns Mi Provost St. dto 1st Ave. Playground Eagle St. wn E including the ‘Plank Road’ site in Maspeth where NCA began restoration work in 2013. Whale Creek Recycling xpy 31) Curtis Electro NY M . DEP Sludge Van Dam St. c 278 GREENPOINT G Boat Dock 35th St. 32) Meeker Avenue Plume Trackdown

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B 37th St. 35) BRT Railroad Car Barn l Green St. v properties adjacent to the Creek. Some portions of the shoreline maintain a more naturalized state where the West St. First d 36) NuHart Plastics edge slopes from water to land as opposed to dropping off 90 degrees as with bulkheads. These shores offer truer Newtown Creek Wastewater Calvary 495 37) Huxley Envelope New intertidal zones, or portions of land that are submerged twice a day by the incoming tides. Such intertidal areas Treatment Plant BB-011 Digester Cemetery 38) Greenpoint MarinaCalvary provide critical habitat for numerous marine plants and animals native to the Creek. Huron St. Eggs Greenpoint Avenue Bridge 39) Cemetery 1987, 24’ clearance Consolidated Freightways e. Truck Terminal t Av India St. oin 34 np 40) Williamsburg Works STUYVESANT Greenpoint ree 5 37 City of G 12 3rd 41) Sunbelt Equipment In 1978 a Coast Guard patrol spotted massive oil plumes on the Creek near Meeker Avenue. This spurred an N R Av e e. investigationTOWN which found 17 to 30 million gallons of oil underneath Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Released into the Java St. New York e 11 vi 42) Wythe Avenue Station ew w 54th Ave. envrionment from (now ExxonMobil) and other nearby refineries during decades of operations; the spill Greenpoint Av 43) Berkman Bros Site Kingsland Ave. t e Ave (G) Kingsland Ave. . is currently being remediated under supervision of the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation. As of N Henry St. o 44) 87 Kent Avenue Russell St. 2015, some 12.5 million gallons of petroleum product have been removed. This map shows the original extent of Kent St. Humboldt St. w - n 13 54th Ave. 45) 149 Kent Avenue the plume - the 2nd largest oil spill in US history. 43rd St. Avenue A C 46) Cleaners Sales & Equipment Corp. Greenpoint Ave. r 44th St. 14th St. Transmitter e 47) Fyn Paint and Lacquer Co. Amaco Oil ek 46th St. Park (BP) 48) Sterling Transformer Corp. Potentially Responsible Parties . In 2010, the US EPA designated Newtown Creek a federal Superfund site. Part of the Superfund process is lvd 278 49) Driggs Plywood Corp. Milton St. Laurel Hill B 55th Ave. identifying potentially responsible parties (PRP) that have contributed to the contamination and will be held liable REACH D 50) BQE/Ansbacher Color & Dye Factory American Moultrie St. Amaco 51) 555 Grand Street paying for the cost of cleanup and restoration. The Newtown Creek PRPs include ExxonMobil, British Petroleum, Playground Penny Texaco, Getty, National Grid, Phelps Dodge and the City of New York. Noble St. Jewel St. Oil (BP) Bridge 52) 416 Kent Avenue Diamond St. Kosciuszko Apollo St. 5 53) 420 Kent Avenue Texaco Bridge 1939, 6 Newel St. th NCB-024 38 Oak St. Bridgewater St. 125’ clearance R 54) Domsey Fiber Corp. Site McGuinness Blvd Norman Ave. Gardner Ave. d Combined Sewer Overflow Scott Ave. . 55) Peoples Works Eckford St. As little as a tenth of an inch of rainfall can trigger Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO), which is when stormwater Calyer St. 33 Phelps 56) 470 Kent Ave Leonard St. 48th St. combines with sanitary sewers, treatment plants reach a capacity for intake and untreated sewage and stormwater V

a 57) Kent Avenue Station Site Avenue B Manhattan Ave. 50th St. 39 r Dodge enters the waterway via CSO outfall pipes located throughout the city. The Creek receives over 2 billion gallons of i c S t Lorimer St. k e w CSO each year, which has tremendous impact on water quality and represents the largest source of present day a Guernsey St. S t r 55th Dr. pollution. Van Dam St. t Meserole Ave. . A Dobbin St. Greenpoint v 14 32 e Thomas St. NCQ-029 . Banker St. Library Apollo St. Hausman St. Nassau Ave. Morgan Av. 56 Gem St. Sutton St. th Kingsland Ave. R PublicEAST Libraries Monitor St. d. Bu Russell St. Franklin St. The Brooklyn and Queens public libraries partnered with NCA to host weather stations at branches within the Creek sh Humboldt St. w 56th St. VILLAGE ick In Cherry St. 31 watershed. These stations provide real time weather data and are connected to our #CSOalert system that lets let Monsignor residents know when CSO events are likely occurring. By conserving water during these events we can lessen the Norman Ave. Nassau McGolrick REACH G 49th St. amount of pollution entering the Creek. Ave (G) Anthony St. Mussel 56th Dr. Park Island Maspeth C Sgt. William reek 30 REACH D Maurice Ave. Rust St. Avenue C Dougerty REACH E 50 Playground Turning NCQ-077 Remedial Sites 40 29 Basin Ma The NY State Department of Environmental Conservation is working with property owners to remediate a number of speth Ave. 41 Nassau Ave. 28 contaminated sites surrounding Newtown Creek. Similar to the Greenpoint Oil Spill, these are often remnants of old 49th Ln. Bushwick Kent Ave. Maspeth Ave. industrial operations where toxic chemicals have leached into the soil and groundwater, posing significant health 278 Inlet Park G 57th Rd. threats to the local community of humans and non human organisms. This map shows a number of these remedial ra Lombardy St. Maspeth Ave. N. 12th St. h Furman sites that are currently being investigated or cleaned up. For more information about each site and the cleanup 42 a Humboldt St. m Island 43 Engert Ave. National Grid process visit dec.ny.gov. East River A MASPETH 57th Dr. N. 11th St. v State Park e . 15 McCarren Beadel St. 26 Penny 44 N. 10th St. 58th Ave. Avenue D Bridge Park 1600 Shoreline & Historic Features N. 8th St. Baseball fields 27 48th St. E HoustonThe geography St. of Newtown Creek has changed tremendously since the arrival of the first Europeans to the area on Vandervort N. 9th St. Division Pl. Varick St. 16 Berry St. 49th Pl. 58th Rd. in 1609. Shown here is an outline of the Creek as it existed at that time, with much of the surrounding shoreline N. 7th St. Newton St. Plank consisting of extensive marsh and numerous streams feeding into the creek. Road Richardson St. N. 6th St. Herbert St. Maspeth Avenue NOTICE: Newtown Creek is a federally designated Superfund site. Due to poor water quality and contamination Bedford Ave. Plank Road 45 of the sediments within Newtown Creek, it is NOT advisable to swim, wade or consume fish or shellfish. Bayard St. Frost St. Maspeth Ave. Withers St. 49th Pl. WILLIAMSBURG Dreggs Ave. Page Pl. 5 REACH 7 56th St. t H h N. 5th St. Richardson St. 48 55th St. S 47th St. t Baseball fields . Debevoise Ave. E Grand St. 54th St. Roebling St. on Vandervort as t 46 N. 4th St. Frost St. English Kills B TNT ra Scrap n Bedford REACH J c t 47 N. 3rd St. BROOKLYN Charles h r Grand Ave (L) Withers St. Vandervoort Ave. King MANHATTAN Ferry . M d Park e R Morgan Ave. tr o t s p n e o i Rewe St. N. 1st St. l o ita 49 Jackson St. Maspeth Ave. n p Grand Street Bridge A d Cooper ve o 1903, 8’ clearance . o Grand St. Park REACH I Skillman Ave. W Grand St. a v 278 Sharon St. Metropolitan Kent Ave. S. 1st St. Avenue Bridge . Conselyea St. 1933, 10’ clearance ve A i Graham Metropolitan Ave. g Wythe Ave. 50 Lorimer in E Ave (L) sh S. 2nd St. St (L) NCB-019 NCB-083 lu Metropolitan Ave. F Berry St. Bayside Metropolitan Ave. Leonard Devoe St. Nurge Ave. e Fuel v Williamsburg Bridge Library Scott Ave. i R S. 3rd St. Onderdonk Ave. r Bedford Ave. D Powers St. Devoe St. Ten Eyck St. Gardner Ave. R Grand St.

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Manhattan Ave. 22 S. 9th St. Leonard St. Lorimer St. MAP © Edward C Jacobus Marcy Ave. Stagg St. Johnson Ave. Meserole St. LIRR (English Kills) Bridge Troutman St. Wythe Ave. 2015 - All rights reserved NCB-015 1891, 4’ clearance Marcy Ave Rodney Ave. Hooper St. 54 S. 10th St. Starr St. Bedford Ave. NOAA Chart 12338 was used as reference 55 (J,M,Z) Ingraham St. Dreggs Ave. Scholes St. Keap St. Jefferson St. in the preparation of this map Roebling St. Hewes St. Willoughby Ave. 56 Montrose S. 11th St. Division Ave. Ave (L) 0 1/4 mile 278 Meserole St. Hewes St 17 BUSHWICK Montrose Ave. 18 0 1/4 kilometer Division Ave. (J,M) Johnson Ave. Jefferson 21 Ingraham St. 57 Boerum St. 20 19 St (L)