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Brooklyn, NY is a boomtown. The rush for space and cool places is unrivaled in America. Yet hidden under a developer's cloak, is an environment heavily damaged by 200 years of industrial excess. In a place known today for sleek modern condos, booming art galleries, great bars and restaurants, the expanding population is tripping along blissfully unaware of the age old toxicity. Derrick Beckles tours the high and low points of Brooklyn: Williamsburg's Radiac, the faded glory of Newtown Creek, brownfields and superfund sites, shady developers building on unhealthy ground at every turn, the surreal majesty of Greenpoint's sewage treatment and garbage transfer stations plus the largest environmental disaster in the history of New York City, the Greenpoint Oil Spill.