Greenpoint 072522

Did you know that 30 million gallons of oil sit under a neighborhood in Brooklyn, a remnant of the third largest oil spill in US history? This little-known tragedy is the subject of the descriptively titled “The Greenpoint Oil Spill & some of the people who died in horrible fires along & on Newtown Creek for Standard Oil and others as covered in the newspapers + other interesting items discovered.” Sharing newspaper clippings covering factory fires and oil ooze in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, the zine is a great compilation of primary sources that sheds light on “an accumulation of more than a century of unregulated disasters and disposals” and a deep history of racism, environmental degradation, and inequity in one of New York’s most gentrified neighborhoods. The zine is only 20 pages long, but it shares such a wealth of research and information.

📓 Details: half-size, 20 pages, full color
🛒 : $5
🔗 : website

Greenpoint 072522

Did you know that 30 million gallons of oil sit under a neighborhood in Brooklyn, a remnant of the third largest oil spill in US history? This little-known tragedy is the subject of the descriptively titled “The Greenpoint Oil Spill & some of the people who died in horrible fires along & on Newtown Creek for Standard Oil and others as covered in the newspapers + other interesting items discovered.” Sharing newspaper clippings covering factory fires and oil ooze in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood, the zine is a great compilation of primary sources that sheds light on “an accumulation of more than a century of unregulated disasters and disposals” and a deep history of racism, environmental degradation, and inequity in one of New York’s most gentrified neighborhoods. The zine is only 20 pages long, but it shares such a wealth of research and information.

📓 Details: half-size, 20 pages, full color
🛒 : $5
🔗 : website