"Our goal is to get the oil picked up and not wait until it gets on beaches, and then have to clean beaches." The oil that washed ashore near Seward was a taffy-like goop mixed with seaweed, and was cleaned up Tuesday.
Thick, black patches of goop and a brown sheen have spread through much of the bay, Greene said.
With much of Manhattan covered by the ghostly goop, the solution seems abrupt and unsatisfying.