New Yorks Most Polluted Waterway, New Town Creek

Special thanks to our dear friend Max Touhey for the great drone shots Join this channel to get access to perks: Chapters: 00:00 America s Largest Domestic Oil Spill: The Story of Newtown Creek 00:22 Meet the Activist Swimming in America s Most Polluted Waterway 01:49 The Geological History of Queens, Long Island, and Brooklyn: The Formation of Newtown Creek 02:38 How Native Americans Utilized Newtown Creek for Trade and Transportation 02:49 Newtown Creek: The Colonists Discovery and Early History 03:09 Newtown Creek in the 1800s: Transformation and Industrialization 04:39 The Pollution of Newtown Creek: How It Happened 05:54 Newtown Creek Industries: What Was Happening on the Waterway 06:33 How the Oil Industry Destroyed Newtown Creek s Ecosystem 07:59 Newtown Creek s Role in World War II: A Vital Industrial Waterway 08:58 Th