Dead Horse Bay: New York's Hidden Treasure Trove of Trash
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Explore the dark history and perilous future of one of New York City's most polluted and mysterious sites.
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This is a PERFECT monument to government. Its past, present and future. Waste, no responsibility, purposeful neglect, and human destruction.
its also a monument to capitalism make all the money you can know matter what harm happens to the environment and the working man who is usually the one left living by these sites and then paying for there clean up. while the rich jump on their airplanes and yachts that they fly another country's flag and pay no taxes on and laugh at the sheep who are left cleaning up their mess.
@@terryhoffman795 under glorious socialism,sheep will have no goods to dump.
@@wilfredruffian5002 as long as money in any form is around you live under a capitalist dictatorship and you can call it democracy , socialism, communist , or any other type of government you can think of but it is still a capitalist dictatorship. because that is what money is. the oldest dictatorship the world has ever known.
@@terryhoffman795 I think you're my new favorite political theorist. Move over Engles,take a walk Marx,my man Terry 'a here.
@@wilfredruffian5002 lol
I just love this place and I don’t agree with that teacher who has sole access to the beach.. if you go and find a piece of history and renew and respect it .. good for you !!
What I find strange is that no one my age (70+) that knew the area in the 1960s and 70s has commented. To me, all of you are Johny's. Come Lately's, including the artists. After the dump in Dead Horse Bay, was completed in the 1950's, sand was pumped from nearby channels to cap it and conceal the mess. That hydraulic fill had what had been dumped into the adjacent areas during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Broken clay pipes, crude blown bottles with pontils , and numerous other "treasures" were exposed during low tide, and if you walked the area during a new or full moon low tide the picking was at its' best. As the hydraulic fill (sand) was eroded it revealed the "newer" garbage. Which is counter intuitive, you'd think the stuff on top would be the newest, but it was actually the oldest. I did my collecting before it became part of Gateway, and all my "artifacts" are long gone, but like much of the 1960's you really should have been there to know what you missed!
Thank you!
Great comment.didnt know they even tryed to cover it with sand and all that other stuff.all i knew is a guy started throwing people out, even those who were paid up on rent and just put it all in dump trucks and dumped it there.and parts of animals laying around,why would anyone want to go there?ìt looks pretty nasty,id need to wear my logging boots to walk there.god knows what you could end up bein very sick and maybe die a horrible death.
Let it be free for all to pick through...trash to cash...mining land fills is a way to clean up a neglectful past.....Recycle Reduce Reuse
Unfortunately, it's not cleaning up anything. People would dig holes and expose much more garbage in search of a small item that may or not be valuable.
Well said.
watching this shows just how SICK NY City is!
OH brother let people take what they want how inane!
Make America clean again!
Its trash, not treasure. Whats wrong with people recycling it?
Your right,someone might even try to clean it up some instead of just taking odd stuff.it should be cleaned up by the state of ny
There worried some 1 might make money off the trash other wise no 1 would care Take what u want ur helping 2 clean it
geez...save garbage for 50+ years and its protected by our government! So happy about paying taxes to keep garbage on the beach.
We have the time and man power NOW... let’s clean it up, set up a small museum onsite so we don’t forget the history. Done and done. The environment isn’t reacting well to the mess.
When I go there, I am taking things. I think it is ridiculous that it is a crime to remove objects from here.
Exactly. It's not a pristine coral reef.
I agree. Let salt water distroy it or maybe let be restored in a collection.
its ok to dump garbage but its not ok to take it? so stupid.
Cheryl Carrera
Discarded garbage is legal for the government to seize and use against you, but illegal for citizens to pick up and use or sell.
That's how upside down this country is.
Its just trash... take what you want. This teacher is only complaining because he wants the exclusive attention of being the chosen one.
How can anyone cut on the artists who are collecting and re-purposing this trash??? THEY are the ones giving it new life and value.
I can't believe somebody is discouraging recycling... sheesh.
It's not recycling. Searching for small treasures while leaving everything else there won't help anything if it went on for 1,000 years. Furthermore, people would dig to expose more which would greatly expedite the amount of garbage washed out by the tide and storms.
Disgusting! This toxic ☣️ sight needs to be brought back to its natural state 🏝 as an functioning ecosystem! A Hard Core Beach 🌊 Cleanup 🧹 needs to take place on the Federal 🏛 dime. Recycle ♻️ everything 🚮 and feel free to preserve historical artifacts.
Clean this mess up! It's garbage...plain and simple. You think that by adding music to the video it will make some romantic theme out of this crap. When you deal with garbage on a daily basis (like I did for 23 years) you'll understand there is NOTHING romantic about it. Only an egghead teacher could make a teachable moment about this toxic mess. He missed the point entirely. He should have taught the kids about waste, toxic dumping, recycling, etc. What point is historical about 50-60 year old GARBAGE? Let's get on with it. Clean this bay up and let the people use it. If just as a nature preserve...something to be proud of.
Marston Davis
Stop moaning about it & get up & do something positive like arranging clean up days. Make sure you know where it's going though!
Keep me posted on your clean up days & how it's going
Graham he's just saying protecting this dump is fucking retarded.
The best documentary relating to NYC I’ve seen.
Stop calling garbage artifacts. Recycle all that glass and go from there. Time to clean up the mistakes of our fathers . . .again.
Agreed. This DUMP is no more filled with historical artifacts than ANY other LANDFILL in the State of New York, or any other place in the USA. It is just another landfill where waste gets dumped. There are thousands of these sites around the USA. They all have people's old shoes, discarded jewelry, old soiled coffee cups and decomposing newspapers and magazines. This place is no more or less a historical archive than ANY landfill. These college professors kill me with their nonsense. It's trash, OKAY? History professors bitching about people picking up old marbles and discarded wine bottles, because the items in their pea brains are deemed historical treasures, is pure PhD nonsense. If it hasn't happened already, I'll bet it won't be long before some Leftist numb skull gets the entire area classified as a National Treasure, declares it a museum or something. Only in the USA, by graduates of higher learning would a landfill be declared as treasure to be protected by the rule law. Universities and the media (yes, you ABC) have sunk to this absurd level. There is no common sense with these people. Next thing these "historical" wizards will do is make it illegal to erase you own personal, obsolete, Beta and VHS video tapes because they contain historical value from the 1970's and 1980's. This Dead Horse Bay is no more special than any stinky landfill in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc. It is a LANDFILL. It is filled with discarded household TRASH and old animal bones from what was a stinky glue factory and stinky fish processing plant. Stop the madness. Stop calling this special. It isn't anymore special than any landfill.
xxM5xx wrong if you watched the video you would know it wasn't household trash dumped there, it was entire households. Which are artifacts!
So......if your neighbors hoarder house was cleaned out and dumped in the landfill it would constitute "Artifact status" simply due to it being in someones home. Yeah Sean that makes sense.
Just clean it up BUT with the difference to collect everything that has value for educational or historic purposes. Not so hard to do...this way toxic batteries are not dissolved in the water around the beach which will kill or contaminate the life and nature right now. Clean up the garbage, preserve the historic artifacts..problem solved.
Glass is made of sand.
Trash,,,,on the shores....illegal to take it? Cleaning it up and removing it is illegal? Simply makes zero sense.
It's time to clean this place up!
Aoc an Cuomo will get right on it
How many people's family's came from New York? Many! I know mine did. What a fascinating place .I love history and this place is alive with it.
And so is the landfill in Riga, New York ( a suburb of Rochester ). Go dig around that stinky trash dump if you like history. LOL. Every landfill has household garbage from the past. This is nothing more or less special than any old landfill. There are thousands of places like this around the USA. This is nothing special. Only a university professor (clown) and the media ( ABC, et. al. ) would paint this as something to be treasured, studied, protected with laws against trash picking. Has the world lost its mind? I guess it has if you think a landfill is alive with things of value. It is TRASH. Not unlike the trash in any other old landfill. If it is indeed treasure, than all landfills are filled with treasure. Argh. You want to make all landfills protected by the National Park Service so no one but university staff can pick through the trash? (you probably do). Sad.
I love the way the sea chucks all our rubbish back at us!
I love that the Dept of Sanitation has an anthropologist in residence.
I used to live across from dead horse bay I saw my house for a spit second in this video. I thought the place was disgusting I had a boat and I never once landed there except for that marina to get gas. I never thought of it as a treasure just a toxic waste dump and I hated it when that crap would wash up on our beach. I could never understand why people just threw their shit everywhere!!!
You should check out Merrill's finds on Metal Detecting NYC RUclips channel. He's good !!
They should clean that stuff up. Collect the treasures and recycle and dispose of the rest.
Garbage is protected?? What the hell!! It is not legal to remove trash from Dead Horse Bay?
One Mans Junk is Another Mans Treasure 😀😀😀👍🏼
So the guy taking things doesn't want people taking things?
Also I'm sure there is money to be made. yeah its probably 80% trash but looking back on it we threw out things from my childhood that was considered trash at the time but brings good money now on ebay and that was in the 80s!
I'd bet there's some great finds out there.
money hungry pervert
It is a former landfill in a sensitive environment that needs remediation.
If it wasn't a National Park the EPA would be issuing fines like it was going out of fashion.
I love this story excellent. Thank you!
Sad and disgusting , not history just rubbish
Well its both. I visit it all the time. An archeological treasure and envoromental noghtmare. There have been some cleanups on some parts.
Earth First. Clean it up, recycle what you can. If you want to have a historian there while it's being cleaned up to select crap to keep then do that in tandem, but it needs to be cleaned and restored. Humans are to hung up on "STUFF" and we are running out of space to dump our waste safely. I don't care whats there, just clean it up.
I would love to go there.
Very cool, upload more videos like this please.
It's a garbage dump, I'm sure what's on the beach is less than 1% of what makes up the land behind you. but at least this way you don't have to spend money cleaning up the mess
Mudlarking in England and belowthesurface.amsterdam is how this bay should be treated. There's fascinating history in here, and excavating it as a part of clean up and restoring action is the right thing to do.
Before automobiles NY was populated by hundreds of thousands of horses used for transportation. The upper banks of the Hudson River had rendering plants for most of the dead horses. Many rendering plants in Brooklyn here
Carol Zoref has wrote a book about this called Barren Island
I learn something new about nyc.
At 7:00 it's casually mentioned that, beside the fish/guano/horse plants, the "largest waste reduction plant in the world" was located there, but no details of how they define a "waste reduction plant" nor what/ how exactly was "reduced." Incineration?
16:17 Hey Nicola ! 👋👋
I think artists should be encouraged to take things
What is that dark chunk of metal wrapped in white plastic at 15:48? I found one in a stream near my house.
Wow! Greed and the LUST for money over lives! Just wow! Never knew about this part of "history"!
each generation of high school students of nyc and area should have a one day collective clean up effort,where they could learn about history and the impact of pollution on nature. within ten years it could be magnificent.
Banksy shops at dead horse.
Offer people $20 to fill up a trash can. Haul trash away. Problem solved
Luisito Comunica brought me to this video
Louis AA but a good joke
Tragedy?
Shawn Swigart Yes? People forced out of their homes against their will simply because they are lower class citizens is a tragedy.
It is and was a dump. Its all trash. What’s the difference between garbage and treasure? About 70 years and enough buzz. Let the mudlarkers do their thing
He won't be here to long if he keep smoking so much.
The difference between dead horse bay and picking at the River Thames, those artifacts go back hundreds and thousands of years. No comparison to picking at Dead Horse Bay. Yes, there is history but there is also so much garbage.
Go there collects lots off glass bottles get money for them
Super interesting doc...I have to disagree with the retired science teacher though, seems he wants to be the only one that can take stuff (prima donna syndrome?) and he uses the kids to find stuff and then justifies it by saying he is 'teaching; his students and that it all should be left alone, just seems a bit hypocritical to me.
I do agree about the 'London way', to me it seems a win/win situation in that nature benefits and the historical artifacts are appreciated by people that don't want to trek through polluted, stinky and hazardous areas.
Very Pecaso
Id love to walk through that place and wouldnt feel the need to take anything with me.a bad story about a man throwing people out of their places and dumping it there on a large scale.thats whats left of hundreds of people and their familys lives, just tossed out even the ones who were paid up on rent . Who says he can be there.i checked it out and i found out it is closed to the public.
It’s a dumb for Pete’s sake
They never clean it up
It is garbage! Our entire planet is covered in garbage. So sad. We need to save ourselves.
Its a DUMP. Relax! a DUMP!
Hidden treasure, wright I just hope that nothing from Manhattan project hidden there, and where is the money for preserving this sh*t and who is responsible??? Chernobyl right in our backyard!!!
Lol its a landfill from 1900 all cities have them big deal
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Bull crap they need to clean up dead horse bay disgraceful 😤 😒 😑 🙄 😪 😐.
Every ounce of that Trash was stolen from Mother Earth to begin with .......now she has it back! .../sarc
Yes it is TRASH.
Guy makes trash out of trash
Dead horse bay treasure trash haunted
Liberals they are such a funny bunch...
Dangerous for wildlife and do nothing
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How Sickening, let's Go to the Poorest and take them Out of their Homes to build Highways, and throw their belongings in a place where We can contaminate Ocean Waters. That Guy Must be in Heaven!!! Did he really think that He was going to live forever?? The fate of the Poor always Put in the hands of the RICH. Great GOD the poor have.
I dont care about the arcbeaology of the 1950' s cra0 left behind..i care about what we have done to the earth
Collector is a hoarder.
I think its funny the comments on this video.
Want it clean, go do it.
So waste tax money on law suits and blame government instead of going and making a difference like this guy.
Most of you complainers probs don't even vote anyway.
I guess 80% of all African urban areas look pretty much like this place...
The New York accent is like nails scratching down a chalkboard.