Deep in the outer boroughs of New York City, the secrets of a growing city lie buried on Barren Island. Today, the legacy of urban renewal is dredged up with the tides at Dead Horse Bay.
- Dead Horse Bay contamination not ‘significant health risk’
- Good Work of School on Barren Island | Brooklyn Eagle 18 Aug 1901
- Dead Horse Bay Environmental Cleanup Project - Gateway National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)
- Hylan Makes Issue of Richmond Garbage | New York Times
- Jamaica Bay: A History | National Park Service
- Dead Horse Bay closed because of radioactive contamination
- Dead Horse Bay: The Brooklyn bottle beach covered in cool vintage trash
- Dead Horse Bay Brooklyn, New York | Atlas Obscura
- Dead Horse Bay: New York's Hidden Treasure Trove of Trash
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Artwork: Brittany Schall Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod
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