{"id":5133,"date":"2009-07-17T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2009-07-17T08:08:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:08:06","slug":"now_youve_heard_everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/now_youve_heard_everything.html","title":{"rendered":"Now You&#8217;ve Heard Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/brooklyn\/2009\/07\/17\/2009-07-17_just_sittin_on_the_dock_in_the_sludge.html\">Pleasurecraft docking in that big oil spill between Brooklyn and Queens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It&#8217;s one of the most polluted waterways in New York &#8212; a fetid stew of oil, sewage and sludge.<\/p>\n<p>But Newtown Creek is paradise for Max Mulhern. <\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old London-based sculptor is spending part of his U.S. vacation docked at the notorious waterway separating Brooklyn and Queens as part of a quirky family boat trip. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like to stay off the beaten path,&#8221; Mulhern said on Thursday aboard his 40-foot sailboat. &#8220;It leads to much more interesting encounters.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Keeping his boat tethered to a crumbling cement wall in an industrial section of Long Island City has another key perk: he&#8217;s staying in the city rent-free. <\/p>\n<p>Mulhern, an accomplished skipper on an artist&#8217;s budget, seeks out the desolate and sometimes very dirty nooks as he travels along the East Coast en route to Maine. <\/p>\n<p>On this, his second such boating trip in as many years, Mulhern has already spent two days docked at another unlikely locale, Coney Island Creek.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/greenpoint\/newtowncreek\/index.htm\">Newtown Creek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasurecraft docking in that big oil spill between Brooklyn and Queens: It&#8217;s one of the most polluted waterways in New York &#8212; a fetid stew of oil, sewage and sludge. But Newtown Creek is paradise for Max Mulhern. The 47-year-old London-based sculptor is spending part of his U.S. vacation docked at the notorious waterway separating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,33,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-what_will_they_think_of_next","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7262,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions\/7262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}