Steve Lang, on the Problems and Contradictions of Reviving Waterfront by The Gotham Center for New York City History

Steve Lang, professor of urban studies at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)and author of “Striving for Sustainability on the Urban Waterfront," speaks about the Newtown Creek Alliance, a group of local community activists which is helping to rehabilitate the notoriously polluted waterway, but, like many groups across the country, struggling to avoid closing it off to the public again; this time, via gentrification, not industrial use