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Greenpoint Nature Walk

When I've been on the mix of high design, landscape planning and industrial wonderland that is Greenpoint Nature Walk in the evening, the DEP employees have checked to make sure they were not locking me in, but apparently that is not what happened to one of our readers this week:

I was at the Greenpoint Nature Walk yesterday. I was hanging out with my friend, we were close to the entrance/exit at 5:40pm when we started to hear the gates closing. we walked to the exit where the guy was about to lock us in and he said "Just in time!" (He had a DEP truck)
I said, wait, were you going to look inside to see if there were other people in there?
And he said "no!"

I am not sure how this thing usually works, but it was still light out. I think we were lucky as there really isn't any other way to escape that place. Are they supposed to take a look first?

My guess is "yes" they are supposed to make sure they are not locking people in with the Newtown Creek at night.

Addendum
I spoke with Laura Hofman and Christine Holawacz of the Newtown Creek Monitoring Committee (Christine is also a NAG board member). NCMC was responsible for getting the park created. They are reporting this to the DEP and making sure they are more vigilant. --Mikki

Addendum to the Addendum
This from Christine: "There is supposed to be a guard walking the Nature Walk prior to it being closed by the plant worker. I just went and spoke to the superintendent and he assured me that this will not be repeated."

Thanks to the person who alerted us to this!--Mikki