The mighty waters of Newtown Creek will be in fine form this weekend, as lovebirds and sewage nerds turn out for Saturday’s tours of The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, but this week, they’ve taken the spotlight as far away as Utah.
While Utah might have the Great Salt Lake, but artist Kelly Larsen found his muse in Greenpoint, affixing a 9-foot canvas to the wall of the creek to record the ebb and flow of toxic tides.
As we’ve reported, Newtown Creek owes its toxicity to Greenpoint’s industrial past, and some of that industrial property has changed hands in a big way. Real estate giant Prologis has purchased a newly built Maspeth warehouse on Newtown Creek for $265 million, one of the largest industrial property sales in city history.
And, the real estate market might be moving, but the subway’s not. This weekend we’ll see wide rage service changes, but, shockingly enough, the L will be running as planned.