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    Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) long tributary of the East River, is an estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn...
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  • Newtown Creek is a body tributary of the East River in New York City, whose main flow also serves as a part of the border between Brooklyn and Queens...
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    Bridge". ABC News. Retrieved September 13, 2013. "Movable Bridges over Newtown Creek and its Tributaries". New York City. Retrieved September 20, 2013. New...
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    73°56′47″W / 40.734167°N 73.946389°W / 40.734167; -73.946389 The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is the largest sewage treatment facility...
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  • Newtown Creek may refer to: California Newtown Creek is a tributary of Churn Creek in Shasta County, California. New York Newtown Creek is a tributary...
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  • largest oil spills ever recorded in the United States. Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, between 17...
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    business in Newtown. The Half-Moon Inn, Newtown Creek Bridge, Newtown Friends Meetinghouse and Cemetery, Newtown Historic District, Newtown Presbyterian...
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    Newtown Township, also referred to by the name of its post office of Newtown Square, is a township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Prior...
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    the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens; and on the west...
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  • hundred houseboats in the city. Several houseboats are docked on the Newtown Creek. These include the MV Schamonchi, a former Martha's Vineyard Ferry that...
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    Newtown Creek Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge located at Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It spans Newtown Creek. It has two spans, each are...
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    connects Long Island City in Queens to Greenpoint in Brooklyn over Newtown Creek. It was named after Polish military commander and American Revolutionary...
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    originally known as the Meeker Avenue Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over Newtown Creek in New York City, connecting Greenpoint in Brooklyn to Maspeth in Queens...
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  • New York East Branch Township, Marion County, Kansas East Branch (Newtown Creek), estuary between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City...
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  • Mussel Island was an island in Newtown Creek located near its confluence with Maspeth Creek, between the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint and the Queens...
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    River to the west; New Calvary Cemetery in Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south. Incorporated...
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    Maspeth, which had sizable water and milling industries along Newtown Creek and Maspeth Creek. Two storekeepers, Nathanial Hazard and Francis T. White, sold...
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    Bushwick Avenue on the east and on the north (approximately) by the Newtown Creek was designated as the Third District of the Village of Williamsburg...
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  • Newtown Creek is a tributary of Churn Creek in Shasta County, California, in the United States. "GNIS Feature Search". geonames.usgs.gov. U.S. Geological...
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    Newtown Creek is a tributary, rising near Stoop Road in Newtown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Delaware River...
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    Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Grand Street runs roughly northeast until crossing Newtown Creek into Queens, whereupon Grand Street becomes Grand Avenue, continuing...
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  • has begun in Gowanus Canal – yet Newtown Creek has no relief in sight. The once heavily industrialized Newtown Creek features 11 miles of shoreline that...
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  • the golf course. On April 8, 1989, Balch's legs were found in Pequonnock Creek near Jefferson Township, New Jersey. Her remains were not identified until...
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    located in the township. Natural features include Core Creek, Neshaminy Creek, and Newtown Creek. As of 2010[update] census, the township was 87.8% Non-Hispanic...
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    Avenue Bridge is a drawbridge that carries Greenpoint Avenue across Newtown Creek between the neighborhoods of Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Blissville, Queens...
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    Faber Pencil Factory on the western end of Greenpoint Avenue and the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant just west of the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge...
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    up tens of millions of gallons of oil from legacy refinery spills in Newtown Creek in Brooklyn, New York. On April 11, 2001, Men's Journal gave Kennedy...
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    the waterfront was improved by the Gowanus Canal and the canalized Newtown Creek. USS Monitor was the most famous product of the large and growing shipbuilding...
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    City borough on Long Island, lies just south and west of Queens, with Newtown Creek, an estuary that flows into the East River, forming part of the border...
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    River (tidal strait) Newtown Creek Harlem River (tidal strait) Bronx Kill (tidal strait) Bronx River Flushing River Westchester Creek Hudson River (also...
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