Dead Horse Bay: New York's Hidden Treasure Trove of Trash

Explore the dark history and perilous future of one of New York City's most polluted and mysterious sites.
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  • @davebarron5939
    @davebarron59396 жыл бұрын

    This is a PERFECT monument to government. Its past, present and future. Waste, no responsibility, purposeful neglect, and human destruction.

  • @terryhoffman795

    @terryhoffman795

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @wilfredruffian5002

    @wilfredruffian5002

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@terryhoffman795 under glorious socialism,sheep will have no goods to dump.

  • @terryhoffman795

    @terryhoffman795

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @wilfredruffian5002

    @wilfredruffian5002

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@terryhoffman795 I think you're my new favorite political theorist. Move over Engles,take a walk Marx,my man Terry 'a here.

  • @terryhoffman795

    @terryhoffman795

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@wilfredruffian5002 lol

  • @christibelle7
    @christibelle73 жыл бұрын

    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 !!

  • @chemicalmike646
    @chemicalmike6466 жыл бұрын

    Its trash, not treasure. Whats wrong with people recycling it?

  • @edwardbtown2766

    @edwardbtown2766

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @lisaakinlabi
    @lisaakinlabi6 жыл бұрын

    OH brother let people take what they want how inane!

  • @RenaissancePeopleNYC
    @RenaissancePeopleNYC5 жыл бұрын

    watching this shows just how SICK NY City is!

  • @winnievanorden1
    @winnievanorden16 жыл бұрын

    geez...save garbage for 50+ years and its protected by our government! So happy about paying taxes to keep garbage on the beach.

  • @derekbader130
    @derekbader1306 жыл бұрын

    Make America clean again!

  • @gilliansucher3330
    @gilliansucher33305 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @55ense5imulation4

    @55ense5imulation4

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @edwardbtown2766

    @edwardbtown2766

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @83Bluewater
    @83Bluewater6 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Jimmy-sb3fc

    @Jimmy-sb3fc

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @55ense5imulation4

    @55ense5imulation4

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well said.

  • @Matt-732
    @Matt-7324 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @sallymay3643
    @sallymay36436 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @kcrow430
    @kcrow4307 жыл бұрын

    When I go there, I am taking things. I think it is ridiculous that it is a crime to remove objects from here.

  • @DianaMoon11428

    @DianaMoon11428

    6 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. It's not a pristine coral reef.

  • @wannabecarguy

    @wannabecarguy

    6 жыл бұрын

    I agree. Let salt water distroy it or maybe let be restored in a collection.

  • @motaz1975

    @motaz1975

    6 жыл бұрын

    its ok to dump garbage but its not ok to take it? so stupid.

  • @kscipkkkk

    @kscipkkkk

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mercurymodulelander4210

    @mercurymodulelander4210

    6 жыл бұрын

    Its just trash... take what you want. This teacher is only complaining because he wants the exclusive attention of being the chosen one.

  • @cymoncyrado2879
    @cymoncyrado28796 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe somebody is discouraging recycling... sheesh.

  • @Jimmy-sb3fc

    @Jimmy-sb3fc

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @61shotbeehive
    @61shotbeehive4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @francisbacon6850
    @francisbacon68505 жыл бұрын

    I love the way the sea chucks all our rubbish back at us!

  • @He-is-Center
    @He-is-Center8 жыл бұрын

    It's time to clean this place up!

  • @rodgercottrill3342

    @rodgercottrill3342

    5 жыл бұрын

    Aoc an Cuomo will get right on it

  • @95BerrySt
    @95BerrySt6 жыл бұрын

    Stop calling garbage artifacts. Recycle all that glass and go from there. Time to clean up the mistakes of our fathers . . .again.

  • @xxM5xx

    @xxM5xx

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @wdntulik2no438

    @wdntulik2no438

    6 жыл бұрын

    xxM5xx wrong if you watched the video you would know it wasn't household trash dumped there, it was entire households. Which are artifacts!

  • @95BerrySt

    @95BerrySt

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jorismaasvisuals

    @jorismaasvisuals

    5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @speedysteve9121

    @speedysteve9121

    5 жыл бұрын

    Glass is made of sand.

  • @asterix7842
    @asterix78422 жыл бұрын

    I love that the Dept of Sanitation has an anthropologist in residence.

  • @pauloneufneufneuf
    @pauloneufneufneuf4 жыл бұрын

    The best documentary relating to NYC I’ve seen.

  • @deathcheatersguild4266
    @deathcheatersguild42664 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @marstondavis
    @marstondavis6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @grahamjonathan762

    @grahamjonathan762

    5 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Danny13243

    @Danny13243

    5 жыл бұрын

    Graham he's just saying protecting this dump is fucking retarded.

  • @robertansherrybailey4593
    @robertansherrybailey45936 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @xxM5xx

    @xxM5xx

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @THEWATCHERISLOOKING
    @THEWATCHERISLOOKING6 жыл бұрын

    They should clean that stuff up. Collect the treasures and recycle and dispose of the rest.

  • @russbonk1372
    @russbonk13724 жыл бұрын

    Trash,,,,on the shores....illegal to take it? Cleaning it up and removing it is illegal? Simply makes zero sense.

  • @chrischiampo7647
    @chrischiampo76476 жыл бұрын

    One Mans Junk is Another Mans Treasure 😀😀😀👍🏼

  • @giannit2777
    @giannit27773 жыл бұрын

    Garbage is protected?? What the hell!! It is not legal to remove trash from Dead Horse Bay?

  • @martinemjt
    @martinemjt3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @alberttresslevic914
    @alberttresslevic9145 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @MattTrudden
    @MattTrudden6 жыл бұрын

    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!!!

  • @therrienmichael08
    @therrienmichael084 жыл бұрын

    You should check out Merrill's finds on Metal Detecting NYC KZread channel. He's good !!

  • @tonyam.galang
    @tonyam.galang7 жыл бұрын

    I love this story excellent. Thank you!

  • @AroundTheSouth327
    @AroundTheSouth3276 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @enzodaddi2666

    @enzodaddi2666

    5 жыл бұрын

    money hungry pervert

  • @paulcurry1481
    @paulcurry14816 жыл бұрын

    Sad and disgusting , not history just rubbish

  • @andrewwanitz320

    @andrewwanitz320

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well its both. I visit it all the time. An archeological treasure and envoromental noghtmare. There have been some cleanups on some parts.

  • @robg836
    @robg8368 жыл бұрын

    Very cool, upload more videos like this please.

  • @geminib2665
    @geminib26654 жыл бұрын

    I would love to go there.

  • @genesclean1
    @genesclean13 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @scottlowther7698
    @scottlowther76985 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @oakshillelagh4339
    @oakshillelagh43396 жыл бұрын

    Carol Zoref has wrote a book about this called Barren Island

  • @dorontsur
    @dorontsur6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ecofuturista9065
    @ecofuturista90654 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @guslb12
    @guslb126 жыл бұрын

    Luisito Comunica brought me to this video

  • @guslb12

    @guslb12

    6 жыл бұрын

    Louis AA but a good joke

  • @carrinejones7545
    @carrinejones75453 жыл бұрын

    I learn something new about nyc.

  • @bonnydooner4458
    @bonnydooner44585 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Annie293
    @Annie293 Жыл бұрын

    16:17 Hey Nicola ! 👋👋

  • @codyporter6
    @codyporter66 жыл бұрын

    What is that dark chunk of metal wrapped in white plastic at 15:48? I found one in a stream near my house.

  • @MsRhondaRandy
    @MsRhondaRandy4 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Greed and the LUST for money over lives! Just wow! Never knew about this part of "history"!

  • @wannabecarguy
    @wannabecarguy6 жыл бұрын

    Banksy shops at dead horse.

  • @alphasxsignal
    @alphasxsignal6 жыл бұрын

    He won't be here to long if he keep smoking so much.

  • @RC.41
    @RC.414 жыл бұрын

    Offer people $20 to fill up a trash can. Haul trash away. Problem solved

  • @catsmith233
    @catsmith2332 жыл бұрын

    I think artists should be encouraged to take things

  • @skswig1
    @skswig16 жыл бұрын

    Tragedy?

  • @PolishWoolf

    @PolishWoolf

    6 жыл бұрын

    Shawn Swigart Yes? People forced out of their homes against their will simply because they are lower class citizens is a tragedy.

  • @wilsutherland5983
    @wilsutherland59836 жыл бұрын

    It is garbage! Our entire planet is covered in garbage. So sad. We need to save ourselves.

  • @Carolbearce
    @Carolbearce4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @alexdurham6620
    @alexdurham66206 жыл бұрын

    Go there collects lots off glass bottles get money for them

  • @tacoemall666
    @tacoemall6662 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @drew-shourd
    @drew-shourd4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @rodgercottrill3342
    @rodgercottrill33425 жыл бұрын

    They never clean it up

  • @aaronfavre6863
    @aaronfavre68636 жыл бұрын

    It’s a dumb for Pete’s sake

  • @alienvampirebusterswhoyoug8257
    @alienvampirebusterswhoyoug82576 жыл бұрын

    Lol its a landfill from 1900 all cities have them big deal

  • @edwardbtown2766
    @edwardbtown2766 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mistyrivers4995
    @mistyrivers49955 жыл бұрын

    artist are ... yes weird

  • @robertansherrybailey4593
    @robertansherrybailey45936 жыл бұрын

    Very Pecaso

  • @RC.41
    @RC.414 жыл бұрын

    Guy makes trash out of trash

  • @aprildanielleperez
    @aprildanielleperez8 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @ender7832

    @ender7832

    8 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @imbored200

    @imbored200

    8 жыл бұрын

    What's up

  • @homegrown5128
    @homegrown51284 жыл бұрын

    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!!!

  • @RenaissancePeopleNYC
    @RenaissancePeopleNYC5 жыл бұрын

    Its a DUMP. Relax! a DUMP!

  • @1533ramsay
    @1533ramsay5 жыл бұрын

    Liberals they are such a funny bunch...

  • @kellypasswaters6170
    @kellypasswaters6170 Жыл бұрын

    Dangerous for wildlife and do nothing

  • @carrinejones7545
    @carrinejones75453 жыл бұрын

    Bull crap they need to clean up dead horse bay disgraceful 😤 😒 😑 🙄 😪 😐.

  • @tamaramartin4445
    @tamaramartin4445 Жыл бұрын

    Dead horse bay treasure trash haunted

  • @markg1689
    @markg16894 жыл бұрын

    Every ounce of that Trash was stolen from Mother Earth to begin with .......now she has it back! .../sarc Yes it is TRASH.

  • @ender7832
    @ender78328 жыл бұрын

    2nd

  • @eileenoneil3477
    @eileenoneil34774 жыл бұрын

    I dont care about the arcbeaology of the 1950' s cra0 left behind..i care about what we have done to the earth

  • @jenniferlorence1950
    @jenniferlorence19505 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @LVang152
    @LVang1524 жыл бұрын

    Collector is a hoarder.

  • @cartridgegamegeeks
    @cartridgegamegeeks6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @megaotstoy
    @megaotstoy6 жыл бұрын

    I guess 80% of all African urban areas look pretty much like this place...

  • @jasonlund5949
    @jasonlund59495 жыл бұрын

    The New York accent is like nails scratching down a chalkboard.