Tag: Newtown Creek

Brownstoner Queens columnist and Newtown Creek Alliance historian Mitch Waxman is leading his fi...

Oil on Newtown Creek is an old story, but when there are fresh rainbow colors like you see in the ...

On Friday, the 11th of July, I found myself at the very edge of Queens in a very special place. At...

Kerosene was “invented” by a Canadian named Abraham Gesner, who built the first large scale re...

Jack Eichenbaum grew up in Bayside in the 1950s. He left for academic and vocational reasons in 19...

Review Avenue starts underneath the Long Island Expressway in LIC and snakes past Calvary Cemetery...

As mentioned, I spend an atrocious amount of time studying century-old publications and journals f...

A big part of being involved with the Newtown Creek story is attending an endless series of meetin...

Like Thoreau, I occasionally need to escape it all and commune with the beasts of the field on the...

My mandate in Newtown Creek Alliance is to act as historian, as well as a photographer, and the bu...