Newtown Creek is a tributary of the East River, and found roughly at the center of New York City. Highly polluted, the industrial waterway is nearly four miles long, forming the border of the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Mitch Waxman is historian with Newtown Creek Alliance, conducts regular walking and boat tours of the waterway, and has been photographing it for more than a decade. The photographs of Newtown Creek in this volume were all collected at night.