Tag Archives: Bushwick Inlet Park

NAG Gala. 10 Reasons You Should Attend

#9 –NAG is leading the fight to get more open space in the neighborhood.  We need your support to keep bringing the fight to City Hall! NAG’s annual fundraiser is such a fun  celebration.  This year the Gala will take place on Saturday, November 3rd from 8 p.m. to midnight. The venue is Biba, the [...]

Help Pass the Sewage Right to Know Act!

More than 27 billion gallons of raw sewage  and polluted stormwater are dumped into New York City’s waterways each year. This polluted water discharges out of 460 combined sewage overflows (“CSOs”), a system than can be overloaded each time it rains as little as half an inch. Although water quality in New York Harbor and throughout the Hudson River Estuary has improved significantly [...]

Council Hearing on Parks Funding

On Thursday, the City Council is holding a hearing on Parks funding for the coming fiscal year. As you may know, the city made a lot of promises to our neighborhood in terms of parks acquisition and construction – most of those commitments have not been met. NAG has been following up on these (and [...]

What is the State of the Neighborhood?

Town Hall Meeting Thurs Feb 2, 2012. 7-9pm 160 N 5th — Holy Ghost Ukranian Church Neighborhood Forum Sat Feb 4, 2012. 12-4pm 110 Kent Ave [@N8th] Ground floor of NAG office bldg. If you could give the neighborhood a grade,what would it be? Join new and long-time community members as we discuss the crucial [...]

Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway CB1 planning workshop

Waterfront Greenway Community Workshop Tuesday, October 25th, 7:30-9:30pm Brooklyn Brewery, 79 N. 11th Street, Brooklyn, NY Refreshments will be provided Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway Community Workshops are entering their third and final round. All community stakeholders –from bikers to peds to drivers to business owners and the like– are invited to participate in this workshop for the Williamsburg [...]

Where’s Our Park?!?! photos

Where’s Our PARK?? We won’t stop asking until we get our promised park and open space!! Go to the Where’s Our Park page and sign the online petition, join the coalition, and help plan the next event where raise our collective voices and demand answers from the City about the promises it made to this [...]

April’s NAG Action: Community Gardens, Open Spaces, & Guerilla Gardening. Oh, my!

Are you ready to get your hands dirty making North Brooklyn a greener place? Join us tonight as we gather to discuss Open Space issues–everything from park space to the cleanliness of streets & sidewalks– & community gardening in No Bro. Tues April 5th. 7-830pm Greenpoint Reformed Church. 136 Milton St. Between Franklin & Manhattan [...]

Three Terrific Open Space Updates

1. Bushwick Inlet (or at least, what we’re allowed to claim of it thus far) got a facelift thanks to a really wonderful new program. From Friend’s of Bushwick Inlet Park‘s Laura T… “the folks from NYC Community Cleanup showed up today and collected 15 bags of garbage and leaves after cleaning up our lovely [...]

NEW: Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park Website!

Feeling inspired about the future of our waterfront? Want to get involved with pushing it forward? The Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park have just launched a great new website for their group where you can get involved, and even better, see some beautiful renderings of the Bushwick Inlet Park vision!

Flash from GWAPP: TransGas Case is over and the community wins!

Dear GWAPP Members, Neighbors & Friends: After nine years of litigation, it ends with more of a whimper than a bang. The New York Court of Appeals denied TransGas permission to take a further appeal to New York’s highest court. So TransGas has now officially exhausted all of its appeals and will never, ever build [...]