Brooklyn

Just across the East River from midtown Manhattan's shimmering skyscrapers sits one of the country's most polluted neighborhoods.

Straddling Brooklyn and Queens, Newtown Creek was fouled by generations of industrial waste - making it a federal Superfund site.

Nearby is an underground oil leak bigger than the spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker in Alaska.

These days, the creek also gets the overflow from the city's sewage system when it rains.

Some residents in Brooklyn's Coney Island are having a difficult time getting medical treatment. 

An agreement has been reached between the nonprofit Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation and Douglas Steiner. They'll turn an abandoned 19th century naval hospital complex into a $400 million film and technology hub. Steiner owns Steiner Studios in another part of the Navy Yard. It's the largest film and television complex outside Hollywood.

 New York City pools will open for the season on June 28th. For one Brooklyn neighborhood, this day has been almost thirty years in the making.