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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 24 to June 26, 2026, weather-permitting.
For the 2025 Open Hours season, we are excited to also be opening our Newtown Native Nursery, allowing visitors to explore (and purchase) native plants that we grow on site, and can be a great addition for any greenspace you may have or be involved in!
This is a family friendly event, kindly keep in mind that we use our green roofs as an educational resource, we prefer that furry friends stay at home.
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.
Newtown Creek Alliance invites you to join us at Manhattan Ave Street End Park for a clean up + planting volunteer event!
This public space sits at the former site of the Vernon Avenue Bridge (replaced by the Pulaski in the late1940’s). In the years since, it had been used as a parking lot and dumping site, before being transformed into a park space with water access and a native wildflower meadow.
This event will include:
- Landscaping the existing vegetation
- Trash cleanup throughout the space
- Removing specific plant aggressive species like bindweed
- Planting of native wildflowers and grasses from our nursery!
Newtown Creek Alliance invites you to join us at Maspeth Creek for a clean up + planting!
The 49th Street – Maspeth Creek site is a public right-of-way sidewalk strip that is situated directly above NCQ-077, a combined sewage outfall that contributes an estimated 300+ million gallons of sewage yearly into Newtown Creek. Despite this frequent disturbance, Maspeth Creek is still home to a rich diversity of bird and marine life!
NCA has been working to restore native ecology, add visibility to the water, and improve pedestrian accessibility along this stretch of 49th Street. We aim to engage folks with this rare public waterfront access area through hands-on projects that can help improve environmental conditions along the shore and in the Creek itself.
This event will include:
- Landscaping the existing vegetation and paths
- Trash cleanup along the sidewalk
- Removing specific plant aggressive species like knotweed
- Planting of native wildflowers and grasses from our nursery!
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Tidal Toast is Newtown Creek Alliance’s annual celebration of Newtown Creek! Bringing together community members, local businesses, and long-time champions of the Creek, Tidal Toast is an evening of inspiration and impact.
We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 Tidal Toast Honorees!
REVITALIZE: El Puente is a human rights institution founded in 1982 with a mission to inspire and nurture leadership for peace and justice. Based in NYC and Puerto Rico with national and international impact, El Puente directly serves approximately 12,000 individuals annually from nine youth Leadership Centers across the Southside of Williamsburg and Bushwick, Brooklyn, and within Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. El Puente creates community-led movements of self determination among low-income, oppressed peoples, Latine and communities of color through a holistic leadership and membership model, and high impact youth and community development programs.
REVEAL: The Welikia Project aims to illuminate the rich ecological history that underwrites the development of New York City, drawing awareness to how drastically our own neighborhoods have changed over time, and suggesting possible alternative futures. It roots us in place, helps us understand the place we live in, and fosters the long view. The goal of the project is not to go back to the past but rather to go forward into the future, taking on the wisdom and inspiration that nature provides.
RESTORE: Seaweed City is a regenerative urban aquaculture organization with the mission to restore our marine ecosystems, clean our water, and promote community investment in the NYC estuary. As climate change accelerates, seaweed aquaculture is a powerful nature-based solution, improving environmental conditions by serving as marine habitats, providing an alternative to plastic, acting as a storm surge buffer, and aiding in pollution extraction. We aim to create an open-source research and development laboratory for community members, scientists, artists, students, entrepreneurs, and advocates to explore the benefits of seaweed and connect with the local marine environment.
Join the NCA crew as we look to the future of the Creek and dance the night away. Featuring an exciting silent auction, open bar, dinner, and a shared love of the waterway, join us as we *CHEERS* to the Creek!