If the Exorcise Pool has its way, you’ll be taking a dip in cleaned water from Newtown Creek, one of the city’s dirtiest waterways.
As you approach the edge of the trendy, industrial Brooklyn neighborhood of East Williamsburg, you can smell what divides it from Queens: sewage. That plus oil and other industrial contaminants make the three and a half miles of the Newtown Creek one of the most polluted watersheds in New York.
