Category Archives: Wildlife

Water Quality Monitoring by Sam Wagner

I have spent the last month and a half getting stares from people as I throw a bucket into Newtown Creek and pull up water. Occasionally people will take the time to stop and find out what I’m doing. Those who stop to talk will find out that I’m not pulling buckets of water out […]

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NCA Student Researchers

NCA is pleased to be working with two very enthusiastic students this summer to expand our efforts in documenting and studying environmental conditions both on the creek as well as within the surrounding communities. See their bios and summer responsibilities below. NCA will post updates on projects Sam and Paulus are working on (including opportunities […]

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Living Dock Launch!

All Hands on Dock! For the past month NCA has been constructing the Living Dock – a floating structure to provide much needed habitat for marine wildlife in Newtown Creek. On Sunday April 19th, we will be putting it in the water and we need as many able hands as possible to move this 180 […]

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Plank Road Work Expanded

Newtown Creek Alliance is pleased to announce an environmental benefit project that will expand restoration and access at the ‘Plank Road’ site in Maspeth (58th road at Newtown Creek). Building on work conducted in 2013 and 2014 (funded via the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program and NEIWPCC), we will oversee work at the street end site […]

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April 12th: North Henry St. Workshop

About: Please join the Newtown Creek Alliance on April 12th for a hands-on workshop as part of our North Henry Street Planning Project. The afternoon will include aerial mapping, background lectures on the ecology and conditions of the site and a workshop to envision future scenarios of public access and shoreline restoration. A key component […]

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