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Past Events
Join Newtown Creek Alliance for a stewardship and planting event at one of our favorite waterfront parks in Greenpoint!
Newtown Creek Alliance and DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) invites you to join us at Newtown Creek Nature Walk Phase 3 for a clean up + planting volunteer event! This is a perfect opportunity to connect with DEP’s community coordinators with any questions you may have for caring of Rain Gardens in your neighborhood.
Come to the water’s edge with NCA on this guided walking tour of the Newtown Creek Nature Walk and North Henry Inlet!
Stainless steel gates, petrified tree stumps, “paleocene” engraved on granite steps…
Curious about what it all means? Join Newtown Creek Alliance staff on this guided tour of the Newtown Creek Nature Walk, as we peel back layers of history and symbolism within this unique community space.
We’ll also talk through intertidal restoration projects undertaken by Newtown Creek Alliance, including a stop over at the nearby North Henry Inlet to explore our floating marsh structures.
At the close of the tour, attendees can visit Kingsland Wildflowers for sunset and skyline views, where the green roofs and native plant nursery will be open during our “Open Hours” series!
Start Location: Paige Ave. and Provost St.
End Location: Kingsland Wildflowers, 520 Kingsland Ave., Brooklyn
This program is made possible through generous support from the NYC Green Fund administered by City Parks Foundation.
Join the Newtown Creek Alliance for a walking tour to witness and discuss last mile warehouse pollution and other related environmental issues along Newtown Creek.
In recent years, mega-warehouses (dubbed ‘last mile’ facilities), have proliferated in industrial areas around Newtown Creek and other neighborhoods of New York City. The rise of e-commerce has seen a rapid increase in last-mile developments in the industrial business zones, like those surrounding Newtown Creek. These mega facilities bring significant amounts of increased truck traffic to overburdened communities leading to higher levels of congestion, worsened air quality, urban heat island impacts, stormwater runoff, as well as ongoing issues with worker protections, fair wagers, and labor rights.
The tour also highlights the growing movement for cleaner freight and introduces the proposed Clean Delivers Act, which would require large warehouses to reduce emissions and address their environmental impacts. We will begin at Onderdonk House in Ridgewood and make our way through industrial portions of Maspeth. In total, the walk is approximately 2.5 miles long.
Accessibility:
The route is approximately 2.5 miles and features some adverse sidewalk conditions, limited shade, and industrial activity. The route is not wheelchair accessible. There are nearby buses (Q59 & Q54), trains (L-Jefferson Street Station) and CitiBike stations within moderate walking distance from both start and end locations. Please bring a water bottle to stay hydrated!
Newtown Creek Alliance invites you to join us at Plank Road for the 15th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep! Plank Road is a unique street end site in Maspeth, Queens, that we have been working to restore for both wildlife and local workers/residents alike. We aim to engage folks with this rare public Creek access point through hands-on projects that can help improve environmental conditions along the shore and in the Creek itself.
Registration and more info via Eventbrite.
This Earth Day, April 22, Newtown Creek Alliance will be launching “TINA” — an experimental marsh tank, which will live Creekside at Kingsland Wildflowers for the next six months.
TINA is a 600-gallon aquaculture tank, planted with saltmarsh cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) and hundreds of Atlantic ribbed mussels (Geuksensia demissa) — two native wetland species that used to exist in abundance in Newtown Creek. Twice daily, TINA fills up with Creek water, allowing the mussels and SparTINA to filter and clean the water before being released. Over the course of this 6-month trial, TINA will filter hundreds of thousands of gallons of Creek water, with NCA and partners taking water quality samples and data throughout.
To celebrate the start of TINA’s tenure, join us Creekside at Kingsland Wildflowers this Earth Day: check out the tank, look at some mussels and other Creek species, and learn more about our water quality advocacy. Food and drinks will be provided! Registration here on Eventbrite.
This project is made possible thanks to our climate resilience partnership with Con Edison.