Robin Nagle, On Why New Yorkers Should Be Grateful for Wastewater Treatment by The Gotham Center for New York City History published on 2019-01-04T02:44:24Z Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence at NYC's Dept. of Sanitation and the author of "Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City," speaks about the Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn -- and the extraordinarily long and corrupt struggle to get clean drinking water and sanitation for NYC. Genre Storytelling