About This Item


  • Call NumberGEHP_0158
  • SummaryNuHart & Company, a plastics factory, created a phthalate plume beneath Franklin Street and became a state Superfund site. It was also home to an infamous rave party in 2015. On Franklin and Commercial Streets.
  • Date201?
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPG
  • CreatorHoffman, Laura
  • Cite AsGreenpoint Environmental History Project, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatstill image
  • Genrecolor photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Original document digitized on March 8, 2019, as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Laura Hoffman through the Greenpoint Environmental History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund.
  • Subjectphthalate esters ; Superfund sites ; Factory and trade waste--Environmental aspects
  • PlaceGreenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitlePhoto of NuHart & Company