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Newtown Creek Alliance, Bedford Ave 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 48th Ave. Skillman Ave. 33 St (7) Queens Midtown Tunnel 3) Kosan Industrial Corp. LaGuardia 34th St. Queens Blvd. 4) Arch Street Yards (LIRR) Newtown Creek 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 Queens e 21th St. C and North Brooklyn. 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 Long Island City 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 petroleum products. However, the decline of American manufacturing after World War II led to 2nd St. 495 13) Quanta Resources Dutch Kills abandonedHILL and underutilized properties as well as loss of skilled jobs in the area. Heavy industrial use, with insignificant 51st St. 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 Superfund site. Borden Ave. Van Dam St. Pulaski Bridge 27th St. Hunters Point Avenue Bridge 16) W.L.K. Corp. HarborLAB 23rd St. 1910 (rebuilt 1980s), 5’ clearance POINT 1954, 39’ clearance 17) Cornish Knit Goods BB-014 32nd Pl. BB-015 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 Manhattan 30th Pl. 21) 2 Ingraham Street e year built, 14’ clearance 31st St. Gale Ave. v r and petroleum products as indicated on this map.i Moving bulk materials by barge is more efficient economically and C Avenue North Brooklyn Borden Avenue Bridge 31st Pl. r 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) 49th St. Greenpoint MGP - Energy Center Walk 39th Pl. 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 Greenpoint Avenue Bridge 39) Cemetery 1987, 24’ clearance Consolidated Freightways e. Truck Terminal Greenpoint Oil Spill 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. New York 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 Exxon- n 13 54th Ave. 45) 149 Kent Avenue 43rd St. Avenue A C 46) Cleaners Sales & Equipment Corp. Greenpoint Ave. Mobil 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 Combined Sewer 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 sewage 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.
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