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Past Events
Come join us for Open Hours at Kingsland Wildflowers – an opportunity for the public to learn about the green roofs, the native plants present, and the Newtown Creek while enjoying the golden hour from our scenic wildflower meadows. Open hours are free and open to the public and will take place every Friday from April 19th to June 30th, 2024, weather-permitting.
Join the Newtown Creek CAG for the next meeting with the EPA. Agenda items will include updates on the East Branch Early Action, NYC DEP’s OU-2 monitoring of Combined Sewer Overflow, and CAG discussions about outreach and navigation. Get full agenda and more info here.
The EPA will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, April 16 to explain the cleanup proposal for the Meeker Avenue Plume and to take public comments. The meeting will be held at 6:00 p.m. at St. Stanislaus Kostka Lower Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Comments will be accepted until May 10, 2024. You can submit written comments by mail or email to Rupika Ketu, Remedial Project Manager, EPA, 290 Broadway, 18th floor, NY, NY, 10007 or ketu.rupika@epa.gov.
Greenhouse Gang is back! Join us April 9th as we kick off Spring with our first hands-on event!
NCA welcomes volunteers and horticulture enthusiasts to help us expand our native nursery, propagated from locally collected wild seed. Plants grown in our greenhouse are used to supplement our restoration projects around the Creek, maintain the rooftop meadows at Kingsland Wildflowers, and integrated into our Newtown Native Nursery. This is an ideal opportunity for those looking to support an attractive habitat for our local ecology.
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.