New York’s 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