Newtown Creek Archives – QNS

LIC Post

Block party celebrates opening of Malt Drive Park in Long Island City, adding waterfront access and community space

Long Island City

Malt Drive Park opens, transforming Long Island City waterfront along Newtown Creek

By Ethan Marshall

An early 20th-century postcard of Fresh Pond Road near present-day 67th Avenue in Ridgewood

Maspeth

Exploring the history of Fresh Pond Road from Ridgewood to Maspeth: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

By The Old Timer

LIC Post

Lithium-ion battery caused barge blaze on Newtown Creek in Long Island City: FDNY

Queens Landing Boathouse hosts educational trips on Newtown Creek’s ecology

By Queens Post News Team

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Brooklyn Paper

Oil slicks and ‘black mayonnaise’: 45 years after historic oil spill, Newtown Creek is still recovering

The entrance to Rainey Park at 34th Avenue

AMNY

Man dies after driving car through Queens park into East River

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Maspeth

Feeling ‘Grand’ on the Newtown Creek: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

By The Old Timer

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Long Island City

Crossing the history of the Kosciuszko Bridge: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

By The Old Timer

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Long Island City

Waxing romantic on the Bridges of Newtown Creek: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

By The Old Timer

Sunset Garden Ridgewood

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New community garden set to open this spring in Ridgewood

Elijah Hamilton

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Grand Street Bridge over Newtown Creek to close for maintenance work on weekends during summer months

By Julia Moro

The Newtown Creek water treatment plant, with the creek in the foreground.

Elmhurst

Three dead after car plunges into Newtown Creek: NYPD

By Bill Parry

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Maspeth

Surveying begins in effort to replace Maspeth’s Grand Street Bridge over Newtown Creek

By Mark Hallum

Governor Andrew Cuomo and a construction worker survey the second span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge, which is set to open Aug. 29.

Long Island City

Second span of Kosciuszko Bridge set to open Thursday as major Brooklyn-Queens project finishes ahead of schedule

By Mark Hallum

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Maspeth

Under the K – park development below Kosciuszko Bridge to show off ecological resiliency

By Mark Hallum

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Maspeth

Kosciuszko Bridge on Queens/‌Brooklyn border will have second span opened in September: Cuomo

By Mark Hallum

The inactive Maspeth incinerator as shown in this 2016 photo.

Maspeth

Clearing the air on a trashy idea for Maspeth: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

By The Old Timer

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Maspeth

‘Is it gonna stand up that long?’: Grand Street Bridge replacement farther than expected

By Mark Hallum

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Maspeth

Boating & recreation on the Newtown Creek? Advocates in Queens push a green vision for polluted waterway

By Mark Hallum

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Maspeth

DOT design for new Grand Street Bridge on Queens/‌Brooklyn border set to be completed in early 2019

By QNS News Team

Volunteers sought to keep Queens beaches clean

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Volunteers sought to keep Queens beaches clean

By Mark Hallum

Ralph Solecki is pictured standing on the shore of Newtown Creek at Furman’s Island in Maspeth in 1937. The tributaries separating the island from Maspeth were filled in.

Long Island City

The dirty yet important history of the Newtown Creek: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was

By The Old Timer

A bold new vision for Flushing Waterways

Flushing

A bold new vision for Flushing Waterways

By Gina Martinez

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