Dead Horse Bay: Garbage Heap or Treasure Trove?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 29, 2015

Evan Simon, ABC News Digital reporter, and Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence for New York City's Department of Sanitation, discuss the history of Dead Horse Bay, one of New York's most mysterious and polluted sites, where half-century-old garbage blankets the shoreline.


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An aerial view of Dead Horse Bay, where half-century-old garbage blankets the shoreline.
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A photograph of the Barren Island Waste Reduction Plant is shown at the Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library.
(Evan Simon/ABC News)
Brooklyn-based Artist Gerard Barbot sits in his Sheepshead Bay studio, where he builds sculptures from artifacts he collects at Dead Horse Bay.
(Evan Simon/ABC News)

 

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