Oil and Water Taxi Don't Mix

Required by the city to match the new "green" standards required of automotive cabs, in early 2008 the New York Water Taxi ferry service converted all of its vessels to run on biodeisel - made using waste cooking oil from its food concession at the company's popular Water Taxi Beach club.

In August 2008, it was discovered that NY Water Taxi's state-of-the-art biofuel storage depot in Greenpoint had developed a massive underground leak, adding millions of gallons of french fry grease to the 17 million gallons of petroleum already floating on Greenpoint's water table, giving the Brooklyn neighborhood the distinction of hosting both the world's first green eco-disaster, and the world's largest urban oil spill.