Judy Dong, an instructor at the Manhattan Kayak Company (MKC) who has been paddling with the boathouse since 2017, was shocked when she saw a sheen of oil floating in the embayment next to Pier 84 on Wednesday, March 27. The sighting of oil on the Hudson River came more than a week before gallons of oil leaked from the Con Edison facility at 59th Street.

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Multimedia reporter with a master's in bilingual journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. My interests include politics, grassroots movements and organizing, and reporting on Latinx communities in the United States. My by-lines (other than at W42ST) include Univisión, City Limits, Gay City News, Documented NY, NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America), and more.