Back in 2010 LaGuardia Community College professor, and Newtown Creek enthusiast, Dr. Sarah Durand proposed creating metal frames that could house native salt marsh grasses on the otherwise flat surfaces that line most of Newtown Creek’s shores. These marine planters would be fixed to the bulkheads at the same elevation in the tidal cycle that grasses […]
Potential substrates and plants to include in the Living Dock. We have begun work on the first prototype of our Living Dock project (funded by the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund). Aimed to provide needed habitat to a variety of flora and fauna native to Newtown Creek, the dock will support small individual units underwater, each […]
The Newtown Creek Alliance is grateful to have two projects included amongst a pool of 18 that will receive funding from the first round of the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. We are very excited to get underway with these projects (see descriptions below) that will advance our mission of restoring, revealing and revitalizing Newtown Creek. […]
In addition to debris removal, landscaping and improving accessibility to the Plank Road site in Maspeth, part of our ongoing work also includes public tours to the site for people to learn about and see, firsthand, the pressing issues that surround Newtown Creek. We call them ‘surf+turf’ tours – with one group traveling via foot, and one via […]