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Past Events
Join NCA, NY & Atlantic Railway, and Sims Metal for a volunteer cleanup along the rail lines near Newtown Creek. This series seeks to engage community members with environmental stewardship in often neglected industrial spaces, while offering a glimpse into local train history and infrastructure through these unique sites.
Our first event will take place Saturday June 1st, on the Lower Montauk Branch rail line in Blissville, Long Island City, an active freight line adjacent to the main channel of Newtown Creek in Queens. This line was served by the LIRR until the late 1990’s, when most stations around the Lower Montauk were closed due to low ridership. By the early 2010’s, the line had converted to exclusive freight operations by New York and Atlantic Railway.
Click here for Registration and Details for this Free Event.
Join NCA next Thursday (5/23) from 6:30-7:30pm at the May Queens Community Board 2 Environmental Committee virtual meeting on Zoom to share your experiences with flooding in NYC.
Representatives from LaGuardia Community College and FloodNet NYC will join us to lead the discussion about flooding in NYC. FloodNet is a cooperative of communities, researchers, and NYC government agencies working to better understand the frequency, severity, and impacts of flooding in New York City, they work to gain local input on flooding issues you and your neighbors experience.
Join the Newtown Creek Superfund Community Advisory Group for its next monthly meeting (held in person at Queens Landing Boathouse & Environmental Center and virtually over Zoom) with the US EPA to get updates on the investigation and cleanup. Full agenda and details available here: https://newtowncreekcag.org/
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 the Newtown Creek Alliance (NCA) for a unique walking tour to discover the lack of waterfront access along the Queens side of the waterway. The guided walk will begin at the Hunters Point Avenue 7 train station and head towards the Dutch Kills tributary before ending at the Kingsland Wildflowers green roof, where participants can join in NCA’s weekly Open Hours series to enjoy the sunset from the green roof meadows and redraw our walking path.
Along the way we will visit decommissioned rail lines, community gardens, fenced off shorelines, multiple bridge crossings, and discuss the various opportunities for creating access and environmental restoration along this long neglected and polluted waterbody. We ask that all attendees wear closed toe shoes and be prepared for walking on rugged industrial terrain.
In total, the walk is approx. 2.25 miles long. This tour is free, space is limited, register here.