Deep in the outer boroughs of New York City, the secrets of a growing city lie buried on Barren Island. Today, the legacy of urban renewal is dredged up with the tides at Dead Horse Bay. 

• Dead Horse Bay contamination not ‘significant health risk’
• Good Work of School on Barren Island | Brooklyn Eagle 18 Aug 1901
• Dead Horse Bay Environmental Cleanup Project - Gateway National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)
• Hylan Makes Issue of Richmond Garbage | New York Times
• Jamaica Bay: A History | National Park Service
• Dead Horse Bay closed because of radioactive contamination
• Dead Horse Bay: The Brooklyn bottle beach covered in cool vintage trash
• Dead Horse Bay Brooklyn, New York | Atlas Obscura
• Dead Horse Bay: New York's Hidden Treasure Trove of Trash

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