In this episode of The Gotham Center podcast “Sites and Sounds,” Steve Lang talks about the Newtown Creek Alliance, a group of neighborhood activists advocating for environmental rehabilitation and increased recreational use of this notoriously polluted waterway running through Long Island City, Greenpoint, Sunnyside, and East Williamsburg.

As you’ll hear, the organization has done much to revitalize this formerly inaccessible Superfund site, but is struggling, like other communities around the world, to reclaim the formerly industrial shoreline without paradoxically closing it off to residents through gentrification. Lang, a sociologist who’s been studying these efforts is a professor of urban studies at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY.

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