A Bushwick Daily analysis of NASA satellite data shows that the ground along Newtown Creek in East Williamsburg, which a NASA-led study found rising while most of New York City sank, stopped rising in 2023 and has been settling since about July 2024.

In the data, which run through late November 2025, points along English Kills in East Williamsburg dropped about 6 millimeters, roughly a quarter inch, and points across the creek on the Maspeth bank in Queens dropped about 18 millimeters, about 0.7 inches. Control points in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick stayed within about 2.5 millimeters.

The measurements come from NASA’s OPERA ground-motion product, DISP-S1, built from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 radar satellites and published on the Alaska Satellite Facility’s portal. Bushwick Daily compared the median motion of nine points in each area. The values are line-of-sight measurements relative to nearby ground, without atmospheric correction, and are not directly comparable to the vertical rates in the 2023 study.