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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) West Parcel 11 5 2) Queens West Parcel 8 48th Ave. Skillman Ave. 33 St (7) Queens Midtown Tunnel 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 and serves as the border between Western Queens e 21th St. C and North . The Creek was originally a salt marsh environment with numerous fresh water streams feeding into Smiling BB-026 LIC Roots 46 St (7) 7) ACCO Brands, Inc. 3rd Ave. Hunters Hogshead brackish waters including plentiful amounts of fish and shellfish harvested by native Lenape tribes and early European 51st Ave. Point Ave 8) ACCO Brands, Inc. 5th St. colonialists. As the Creek became a hub for industrial activity in the 19th century, the environment was drastically altered to 495 (LIRR) 9) Active Steel DrumQueens Co Inc. Blvd. Hunters Point Hunters accommodate factories and maritime use; this included filling in marsh, bulkheading shorelines and deepening channels. Vernon Blvd - 47th Ave. 10) Roehr Chemicals Inc. South Park Jackson Ave (7) Point Ave (7) By the early 20th century the Creek became one of the busiest waterways in the country, carrying more value and volume (LIRR) LONG ISLAND CITY 11) Review Avenue Development I of cargoMURRAY than the entire Mississippi River. Goods manufactured in the area included fertilizers, chemicals, glues, ropes, 12) Quanta Resources dyes and many varieties of products. However, the decline of American manufacturing after World War II led to 2nd St. 495 13) Quanta Resources abandoned and underutilized properties as well as loss of skilled jobs in the area. Heavy industrial use, with insignificant Dutch Kills 51st St. HILL Sunnyside 14) Phelps Dodge environmental regulation and protection, left a legacy of toxic contamination, still present within the sediments of the 25th St. BB-040 48th Ave. BB-009 QUEENS Library 15) Maspeth Substation HUNTERS 54th Ave. Creek. In 2010, the Creek was declared a federal site. Borden Ave. Van Dam St. 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 Active Ave. Bulkheads BB-013 33rd Pl. 1 Vernon 34th St. BB-043 Hunters Point Ave. 35th St. 19) Popular Hand Laundry At it’s busiest, Newtown Creek was home to 500 manufacturing businesses. Over 15,000 vessels traversed the waterway Boulevard 36th St. Bridge BB-010 37th St. annually. As recently as the 1950′s, ocean-going freighters were a common sight as far east as Maspeth. These 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. days, maritime traffic is less active, but there are still many working waterfront facilities which primarily handle waste e 30th Pl. 21) 2 Ingraham Street e year built, 14’ clearance 31st St. Gale Ave. v r i C 31st Pl. and petroleum products as indicated on this map.r Moving bulk materials by barge is more efficient economically and Avenue North Brooklyn BB-042 22) Scholes St. Station D REACH A n 1908, 4’ clearance environmentally. A single barge has the same capacity as 28 – 56 long haul trucks, depending on the industry. Compared w Boat Club R o Motiva 23) Frito Lay to other transportation modes, barge transportD of bulk materials is safer in terms of worker injuries, generates far fewer t Ash St. SUNNYSIDE F w Enterprises 24) Scientific Fire Prevention Inc. toxic air emissions and reduces maintenance costs for roads and bridges. e NCB-023 REACH L N LIRR (Dutch Kills) Bridge Starr Ave. 25) Bennett Trucking Corp. 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 Street Access Sites 41st St. Celtic Ave. Management 42nd St. Clay St. Bradley Ave. Newtown Creek is lacking in public access. As of 2015, there are only two officially recognized public spaces on the Creek: 9 43th St. 28) Acme Architectural Products 23rd St. 44th St. 45th St. the Manhattan Ave Street End (NYC Parks Department) and The Newtown Creek Nature Walk (NYC Dept. of Environmental NCB-024 Railroad Ave. 34th St. Lon 46th St. 29) Acme Architectural Products g 47th St. REACH C Isl an 48th St. Protection). A number of other street end sites around the creek provide potential for public access, including the ‘Plank Newtown Barge 36 Dupont St. d E 30) Soap Manufacturer Commercial St. xpy Q Road’ site in Maspeth where NCA began restoration work in 2013. Playground Greenpoint . uee and Lacquer Storage Allocco ns Mi Provost St. dto 1st Ave. Playground Eagle St. wn E 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

Manhattan Ave. u Naturalized Bulkheads i Getty Eagle Street n Freeman St. Kingsland Ave. Greenpoint10 Ave. 33) Spic & Span Cleaners and Dyers n Franklin St. Much of the Newtown Creek shoreline is bulkheaded to accommodate maritime use and increase land use of properties Farm e NCB-002 Metro Oil 34) 460 Kingsland Avenue s adjacent to the Creek. Some portions of the shoreline maintain a more naturalized state where the edge slopes from water s Fuels BB-012

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

a 57) Kent Avenue Station Site Avenue B Manhattan Ave. 50th St. 39 r Dodge which has tremendous impact on water quality and represents the largest source of present day pollution. i c S t Lorimer St. k e w

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

S. 4th St. Dreggs Ave. Stewart Ave. FD Metropilitan Ainslie St. 25 Ave (G) Meadow St. Hope St. 24 Maujer St. Roebling St. Varick St. Woodward Ave. S. 5th St. Union Ave. Waterbury St. Grand REACH K Powers St. Stagg St. Havemeyer St. St (L) Ten Eyck St. 23 B Linden Hill

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51 s Onderdonk Cemetery S. 6th St. Grand St. h Onderdonk Ave. w Morgan Ave. Scholes St. House Grover i Meadow St. c English Kills Borinquen Pl. k Cleaveland

A Bogart St. Broadway v Meserole St. Park e 52 Maujer St. . Stagg St. S. 8th St. Broadway 53 Randolph St. Kent Ave. Ten Eyck St. Humboldt St. RIDGEWOOD Graham Ave. Scholes St. Flushing Ave.

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)