NCA is proud to partner with Queens based painter John Kitses on his Recovered Landscapes: Newtown Creek project. The project includes a number of large and small scale watercolor paintings, as well as ink-jet reproductions, created to raise awareness of the revival of Newtown Creek and appreciation of its beauty. The project will culminate with […]
In 2016, NYC Audubon, Broadway Stages, Alive Structures and Newtown Creek Alliance partnered together to create the Kingsland Wildflowers at Broadway Stages green roof and community space. The project was conceived to expand native habitat and green corridors for bird and wildlife populations, while providing educational programming to the local Greenpoint community focusing on sustainable conservation practices […]
Over the past two years, our restoration efforts with the Living Dock have faced some challenges as more of the grasses that we planted have either been chewed on by Canadian Geese or rummaged through and dug up by other, previously unidentified, creatures. Additionally, many of the ribbed mussels that seeded themselves within the dock were […]
Newtown Creek Alliance has recently partnered with Hudsonia to identify, collect and document all of the many plants within 100 meters of Newtown Creek. Following a year of survey work we will create a field guide for the public and have a greater understanding of the diversity of plant species and their distribution along our beloved and […]
This year NCA will be focussing our efforts on improving a handful of street-end sites on Newtown Creek. Our goal is to improve environmental conditions at these sites, while also making them safer and more inviting as green public areas along the shore. We also anticipate that these areas will be prime viewing sites for the demolition […]
