Events

Greening Industrial Shorelines

Date: 03/19/2024
Time: 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Queens Landing Boathouse and Environmental Center

Join COWI, the Newtown Creek Alliance, and industry professionals to discuss opportunities, challenges, and solutions for developing and maintaining ecological elements into industrial shorelines. Too often failing shorelines are replaced with sterile structures that don’t provide intertidal habitat or water quality and ecological benefits. While constraining factors in industrial areas, such as intensive landside operations, upland contamination, and maritime use/navigation depths limit standard options for creating green shorelines, there are opportunities and successful examples to draw from. We aim to gather the unique perspectives of professionals coming from regulatory, marine engineering, landscape designing, and environmental and community planning professions to produce a matrix of considerations and ideas for green elements to implement in the industrial waterfront design and redevelopment process, that can help influence waterways like Newtown Creek and beyond. This event is made possible with research funding from COWIFonden.

Full details and register here.

Past Events

Creek Critters!

Start date: 10/23/2023
End date: 10/27/2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Queens Landing Boathouse and Environmental Center

Newtown Creek Alliance in partnership with Billion Oyster Project is bringing back Creek Critters, a marine ecology exploration program where people of all ages can drop into the new Queens Landing Boathouse and Environmental Center, to interact with and learn about critters that live in the Newtown Creek!

Critters might include: different fish species, oysters, mussels, snails, crabs, and anything else we can catch.

See you there!

Tidal Toast 2023!

Date: 10/18/2023
Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Royal Princess Boat

Join NCA for our annual benefit, celebrating Newtown Creek and raising funds to support our vital work advocacy, education, and stewardship work. This year we are thrilled to be celebrating our wonderful partnership with LaGuardia Community College.

For years the professors, students, and faculty of LaGuardia have been key advocates in fighting for a cleaner, more accessible, and more resilient Newtown Creek. Located just a block from the Dutch Kills tributary, the school has partnered with NCA, and a number of other local organizations, to pilot a variety of education, restoration, and planning projects to improve the waterway. The college truly embodies NCA’s mission to Reveal, Restore, and Revitalize Newtown Creek which is why we are honoring them with all three awards this year. 

Please click here for more information and to purchase tickets.

Autumn Saturdays

Start date: 09/30/2023
End date: 10/28/2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: 520 Kingsland Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Join us this fall for NCA’s Autumn Saturdays at the Kingsland Wildflowers green roofs! Each Saturday you can come enjoy the roofs, visit our Native Plant Nursery, and purchase native plants to take home with you. On select Saturdays there will also be the opportunity to volunteer with our Greenhouse Gang and help care for the Native Nursery. More info and sign up here.

Superfund Community Advisory Group (CAG) – Virtual

Date: 09/27/2023
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Zoom

Join the Newtown Creek Superfund Community Advisory Group for its next monthly meeting (held virtually over Zoom) with the US EPA to get updates on the investigation and cleanup. Full agenda and details available here: https://newtowncreekcag.org/