History
City Planning Commission City of New York. “Chapter 7: Historic Resources.” Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning EIS, Mar. 2005, www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans/greenpoint-williamsburg/gw_feis_ch_07.pdf
Cobb, Geoff. “A History of Greenpoint Piers.” Greenpointers, 12 Mar. 2019, greenpointers.com/2019/03/12/a-history-of-greenpoint-piers/#more-100224.
Cobb, Geoffrey. Greenpoint Brooklyn’s Forgotten Past. North Brooklyn Neighborhood History, 2015.
Tooker, William Wallace. Indian Names of Places in the Borough of Brooklyn: with Historical and Ethnological Notes. F.P. Harper, 1901.
South Williamsburgs Project, and El Puente. “Pre – Urban History.” Southwilliamsburgproject, 2011, http://southwilliamsburgproject.weebly.com/pre-urban-history.html
Wyck, Frederick Van. Keskachauge, or, The First White Settlement on Long Island. Putnam’s, 1924.
Industry
Community Development Studio. Gentrification and Rezoning Williamsburg-Greenpoint. Rutgers University, 2007,rwv.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Rezoning-in-Williamsburg-2007.pdf.
MetroFocus. “Eye Sores and Eye Candy: The Impact of Zoning on NYC.” Thirteen, Thirteen, 4 Jan. 2012, www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2012/01/eye-sores-and-eye-candy-the-impact-of-zoning-in-new-york-city/.
South Williamsburg Project, and El Puente . “Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.” Southwilliamsburgproject, 2011, southwilliamsburgproject.weebly.com/brooklyn-queens-expressway.html
Impacts
Buissereth, Anthony. “Superstorm Sandy Should Be Our Wake-up Call.” Brooklyn Reader. September 8, 2019, www.bkreader.com/2019/09/18/superstorm-sandy-should-be-our-wake-up-call/.
Department of Environmental Conservation. “Fact Sheet: Remedy Proposed for State Superfund Site; Public Comment Period and Public Meeting Announced.” September, 2018, http://www.dec.ny.gov/data/der/factsheet/224136cupropeng.pdf
Enman, Scott. “There Are 3 Active Oil Spills on Newtown Creek.” Brooklyn Eagle. May 20, 2019, https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/05/20/there-are-3-active-oil-spills-on-newtown-creek/.
Environmental Stewardship Concepts. “Projects & Services: NuHart Superfund Site.” Stewardship Concepts. 2007, www.estewards.com/services/current-projects/nuhart-site/.
Eviatar, Daphne. “Exploring the Massive, Viscous Oil Blob That Lies Just Beneath the Streets of Greenpoint — New York Magazine – Nymag.” New York Magazine, New York Magazine, June. 2007, https://nymag.com/news/features/32865/.
Frost, Mary. “DEC to Meet with Greenpoint Residents about Toxic Underground Meeker Ave. Plume.” Brooklyn Eagle, November. 2016, https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2016/11/30/dec-to-meet-with-greenpoint-residents-about-toxic-underground-meeker-ave-plume/.
Gornitz, Vivien, et al. “New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report Chapter 3: Sea Level Rise” The New York Academy of Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, March. 2019, https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.14006.
Grossman, Daniel.“What the Seas Will Swallow.” Pulitzer Center. August, 2019, https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/what-seas-will-swallow#slideshow-1.
Hennelly, Bob. “Exxon Mobil Agrees to Multimillion Dollar Clean-up of Greenpoint: WNYC: New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News.” New York Public Radio, WNYC News, November, 2010, www.wnyc.org/story/101632-exxonmobil-agrees-multimillion-dollar-clean-greenpoint/
Metro. “Inside NYC’s Largest Wastewater Treatment Plant, a Plague of Flushed Wipes.” Metro US, March, 2019, www.metro.us/inside-nycs-largest-wastewater-treatment-plant-a-plague-of-flushed-wipes/.
Neighbors Allied for Good Growth. “NuHart Plastics State Superfund Site: Remedial Investigation Review.” Neighbors Allied for Good Growth. November, 2015, http://nag-brooklyn.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Final-NuHart-RI-newsletter-10.29.pdf
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. “Fact Sheet: Investigation Continues at State Superfund Site Revised Public Availability Session Announced.” November, 2016, http://www.dec.ny.gov/data/der/factsheet/224121revavaileng.pdf
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. “Greenpoint Petroleum Remediation Project“Home.” NYS DEC. June 2019, www.nysdecgreenpoint.com/default.aspx.
Newtown Creek Alliance. “Meeker Ave Plumes.” Newtown Creek Alliance. 2016, www.newtowncreekalliance.org/meeker-ave-plumes/.
Otten, Tori. “Dead In the Water.” Medium, The Brooklyn Ink, November. 2016, https://medium.com/the-brooklyn-ink/dead-in-the-water-de245bd72cb0.
Prud’homme, Alex. “An Oil Spill Grows in Brooklyn.” The New York Times, May 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/opinion/16Prudhomme.html.
Smith, Peter Andrey. “The Toxins Lurking in Newtown Creek: Liquid Cow and Black Mayo.” New York Magazine. December 6, 2013, https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/newtown-creek-2013-12/.
The Old Timer. “The Dirty Yet Important History of the Newtown Creek: Our Neighborhood, The Way It Was.” Queens News and Community. March 21, 2018, https://qns.com/story/2018/03/31/dirty-yet-important-history-newtown-creek-neighborhood-way/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “Newtown Creek: What Is the Current Site Status.” Environmental Protection Agency, https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0206282#Status
Data Sources
Historic Shoreline (1609), The Welikia Project, https://welikia.org/explore/mannahatta-map/
Sea Level rise – 2050’s 500-year Floodplain (31″), Mayor’s Office of Sustainability (MOS), 2018, https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/Sea-Level-Rise-Maps-2050s-500-year-Floodplain-/qwca-zqw3
Sandy Inundation Zone, Department of Small Business Services (SBS), 2015, https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/Sandy-Inundation-Zone/uyj8-7rv5
Historic Marshland, The Welikia Project, https://welikia.org/explore/mannahatta-map/
Zoning Map (1961) Raster, NYCDCP, https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/zoning/index-map.page
Important Manufacturing Facilities, NYCDCP, https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/zoning/index-map.page
2004 Land Use, NYCDCP, https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data/dwn-pluto-mappluto.page
2019 Land use, NYCDCP, https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/open-data/dwn-pluto-mappluto.page
Zoning Amendments, NYCDCP, https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Zoning-GIS-Data-Shapefile/kdig-pewd
Remediation Sites, NYS DEC, https://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/derexternal/
E-Designations, NYC DCP, https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/E-Designations-CSV-file/hxm3-23vy
Chemical Bulk Storage, EPA Envirofacts, REST API, https://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/derexternal/
311 Complaints, NYC DoITT/Open Data (current), https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Social-Services/311-Service-Requests-from-2010-to-Present/erm2-nwe9
NBN Air Quality Monitoring Sensors, Purple Air Monitoring, https://www2.purpleair.com/
Annual Avg PM2.5, DOHMH NYCCAS, 2017, https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/NYCCAS-Air-Pollution-Rasters/q68s-8qxv
Truck Routes, NYC DoITT, https://data.cityofnewyork.us/dataset/NYC-Truck-Routes/spax-mybh
CSO Drainage, Open Sewer Atlas NYC, https://openseweratlas.tumblr.com/data
Sewershed, Open Sewer Atlas NYC , https://openseweratlas.tumblr.com/data
Average Volume of Discharge, Open Sewer Atlas NYC, https://openseweratlas.tumblr.com/data
Source Area, Open Sewer Atlas NYC, https://openseweratlas.tumblr.com/data
Solid Waste Management Facilities, NYCDCP Facilities Database (2020), https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Facilities-Database-Shapefile/2fpa-bnsx
DSNY Garages, American Community Survey, 2018 5-yr Estimates, https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/DSNY-Garages/ynb8-7tb6
Reported Chemical Spills, EPA Envirofacts, https://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/derexternal
Community Groups, STEWMAP, 2017 / NBN, https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/STEW-MAP/nyc/
Median Household Income, American Community Survey, 2018 5-yr Estimates, https://www.census.gov/data.html
Race/Ethnicity Layers, American Community Survey, 2018 5-yr Estimates, https://www.census.gov/data.html
Parks, NYC DoITT, https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Recreation/Open-Space-Parks-/g84h-jbjm