The City Concealed: Thirteen Features Newtown Creek In Online Documentary Series
December 18th, 2008 by Ethan
The City Concealed: Newtown Creek from Thirteen.org.
Newtown Creek is featured in the first episode of Thirteen.org’s new online series The City Concealed.
The creek runs a full 3.5 miles, bisecting Brooklyn and Queens. Most people barely know it exists. So what happens there, how did it become so overlooked, and was it always this way?
What we found was both beautiful and grotesque, heartening and depressing.
About the series:
The City Concealed, an online video series exploring the unseen corners of New York. Visit the places you don’t know exist, locations you can’t get into, or maybe don’t even want to. Each installment unearths New York’s rich history in the city’s hidden remains and overlooked spaces.
Go to Thirteen’s blog on the series to learn more, discuss, and keep an eye out for new episodes.
There have been other documentaries that have looked at the Newtown Creek oil disaster, such as Thirteen’s New York Voices program and VBS’s Toxic Brooklyn.
Go to GBK’s Newtown Creek category to read more posts about this on-going struggle for a responsible end to the environmental problems at the creek and some of the green solutions that have been proposed.
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