In Case You Didn’t Notice: Sewage Odors Are Drawing Fewer Complaints

In 2007, the bulk of the complaints were directed at two of the city’s 14 plants: Owl’s Head in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and Newtown Creek in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

By this summer, complaints about the Newtown Creek plant, the city’s largest, had dropped to 4, from 151 in 2007.