Here is our Valentine’s Day gift to you, O dearest reader and precious loving Valentine: this article about three artists that are taking submersible cameras into Newton Creek, the superfunded primordial soup that separates Greenpoint and Queens that produces a kind “old eggs” smell from a mile away when the wind blows strong enough in a particular direction down Manhattan Avenue.

Also, if you’re looking for a hot date, why not visit the Newton Creek Nature Walk, the deceptively named park inside the territory of the sewage treatment plant on Newton Creek? The oil-filled waters delicately lap the park’s sandy and often depopulated shores. It actually is a pretty great and quirky New York site, but as a make-out spot, it leaves some things (in particularly the “absence of ‘that sewage smell’”) to be desired.