greenpoint was hit in the late s by a major oil spill of an estimated million gallons predominantly from facilities owned by what is now exxon mobil decades of environmental activism by longterm residents and collaboration with more recent and often wealthier inmovers have led to a cleanup process that does not automatically or exclusively lead to the parks cafes and a riverwalk model of a green city but instead makes room for continued industrial use and bluecollar work the core feature of a just green enough strategy aims at the existing workingclass population and industrial land users not just new development activists in greenpoint want to achieve the cleanup of newtow n creek while maintaining its industrial base a strategy designed to put a stop to speculative development attracted to a neighbourhood experiencing environmental improvements initiatives ranged from the recent declaration of newtown creek as a superfund site to historical battles against a waste incinerator and a new power plant to other interventions such as the construction of a local nature trail newtown creek nature walk