Since 2003, a live-aboard boat community has grown and called the Newtown Creek area home, despite the unknown health effects of living atop a site contaminated by more than a century’s worth of industrial pollution. From 2005 to 2012, Duke Riley produced the work for his first two museum shows on a boat that was moored in this creek. Like the Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek has been designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as a Superfund site, and cleanup is slated to begin this year, creating concerns of eviction among the boat community. A striking local example of the global paradox of capitalism: communities are forced to ignore long-term consequences to maintain their day-to-day existence. This full video, directed and produced by Duke Riley, is on view in DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash. #DukeRileyBkM