6. Newtown Creek Alliance Walk in Greenpoint

Join Newtown Creek Alliance project manager Will Elkins and the organization’s historian Mitch Waxman for a walk past the birthplace of Mobil Oil; a visit to the new Broadway Stages Green Roof with its panoramic views of the Newtown Creek, the DEP’s Newtown Creek Waste Waster Treatment Plant, and the NYC skyline; and the North Henry Street project to discuss the restoration and revitalization of the Newtown Creek.

The Green Roof, which Newtown Creek Alliance has partnered on with NYC Audubon, Broadway Stages, and Alive Structures, is a 21,000-square-foot bird-friendly installation, funded by by the Office of the New York State Attorney General and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. A tributary of Newtown Creek called “unnamed canal” is located at Greenpoint’s North Henry Street just a couple of blocks away from the Green Roof. The North Henry Street project site has been used as an oil refinery, a Municipal trash incinerator, and as a marine waste transfer station during the era of ocean dumping. Today, it sits hidden behind a sewer plant, contaminated and forgotten. NCA has begun the “North Henry Street Project” to remake and reimagine the roughly 350 feet of shoreline at unnamed canal.

Sunday, May 7th at 12 PM and 1:30 PM