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English Kills

- upfromflames - Monday, August 6th, 2007 : goo

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Deep in the forgotten recesses of Brooklyn's East Williamsburg Industrial Park, you can find English Kills.

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Its once thriving waters connected the village Bushwick to the East River, shipping out agricultural produce to New York’s burgeoning population.

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Later, English Kills became part of the industrial waterway network that helped this area surge in the late 19th and early 20th century as a center of manufacturing.

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Now, (lined by trash haulers and manufacturers), it exists as a fetid, stagnant tributary to one of the nation’s dirtiest waterways, Newtown Creek.

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But beyond all those faces and phases, there is a ghostly beauty to be found at English Kills; a haunting of itself, a memory of what once was, and what waters once flowed here.

Perhaps one day, those clean waters will flow again…

Thanks to the BPL for the archive photo of Kills.

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CartLegger: 7th Aug 2007 - 13:23 GMT

For those NY'ers interested in seeing the Kills, it will be part of our agenda for the August 11 collaborative walking tour of northern Bushwick.

Jamie: 13th May 2008 - 14:07 GMT

I came here expecting a frightening expose on the Englishes

AP: 14th Jan 2009 - 14:27 GMT

What's going on in that black/white photo? Seems to commemorate some event, perhaps the opening of this waterway?

Jenny P.: 13th Jun 2010 - 00:48 GMT

Will there be another tour of the area as mentioned above by CartLegger?

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