Toxi City: Brooklyn's Brownfields
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The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Ave
Opening October 25th, 3-6
Through November 8th
10 am to 6 pm, 7 days
The exhibition Toxi City: Brooklyn’s Brownfields explores the legacy of Brooklyn’s industrial past and the spectrum of pollution in which we live. The exhibition features 30 photographs of sites in Coney Island, DUMBO, East New York, East Williamsburg, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Red Hook, Sunset Park, and Williamsburg where historic uses have saturated the soils and groundwater with a lasting toxicity. more
Former Greenpoint Manufactured Gas Plant site, Vandervoort and Maspeth Avenues, State Superfund Program, 2009