Finding Nature Next to Newtown Creek

The nature trail, open every day from dawn to dusk, is meant for the community. Numerous species of plants and trees had been planted.

Red chokeberry flowers, though they are typically white. Juice made from berries was used as an internal curative, according to a plaque,and chewed leaves applied to cuts and sores reduce inflammation. Zachary Stieber/The Epoch Times

NEW YORK—Tucked away amid the man-made structures of the city, is something special. Behind a 17-foot-high storm flood wall, and next to the largest wastewater treatment plant in New York, environmental sculpture artist George Trakas spoke to a crowd of about two dozen people next to Newton Creek, in Brooklyn, on Sunday.