Visitor Center at Newtown Creek

Learn about New York City’s water resources through exhibitions and programs featuring our water supply and wastewater treatment systems featuring DEP employees who narrate the cycle of water from water supply to distribution, wastewater treatment, and harbor water quality.

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Visitor Center at the Newtown Creek WWTP
329 Greenpoint Avenue
Greenpoint, Brooklyn NY, 11222
(Enter at the intersection of Greenpoint Avenue and Humboldt Street.)

• Getting there
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Education

This fascinating new facility will help you learn about the one billion gallons of water New Yorkers use every day, the thousands of miles of pipes, aqueducts, and water mains, and the responsibilities, through the eyes of our dedicated workforce, to serve New Yorkers.

Events

Planning an Event at the Visitor Center:

The Visitor Center at Newtown Creek is a unique event space and the two story building offers a modern, one-of-a-kind environment. The bottom floor houses a signature water sculpture designed by world-renowned artist Vito Acconci that symbolizes the flow of drinking water to New York City from the upstate watersheds.

With stairway and elevator access, the second floor contains a gallery space, multi-purpose room, pantry, bathrooms, and exciting and exclusive views of the Wastewater Treatment Plant. With a room capacity of 170 people, the multi-purpose room provides access to a projector and screen, over 120 chairs, and over 15 tables.

• Slideshow tour of the Visitor Center
• Download floor plans of the Visitor Center (PDF)

If you are interested in using the Visitor Center for a meeting or event or have any other questions please email educationoffice@dep.nyc.gov.

Although tours of the entire Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant facility are not available, we do have monthly public tours of the award-winning Digester Eggs. Please see our events calendar for the next scheduled tour (there is no tour scheduled for the month of June). Reservations are required. To make a reservation on the next tour please email events@dep.nyc.gov.

Questions? Check out the FAQs.

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