Rooftop Garden Tour of Kingsland Wildflowers

Past Event

Rooftop Garden Tour of Kingsland Wildflowers

Tour Highlights:

  • Explore native wildflowers on a rooftop meadow with Willis Elkins, Executive Director of the Newtown Creek Alliance
  • Discuss remnants of the Standard Oil empire and the country’s largest terrestrial oil spill
  • Learn how to clean up a superfund urban waterway
  • See how local stakeholders are charting a course toward ecological restoration

About the event:
Join the Newtown Creek Alliance for an in-depth tour of Kingsland Wildflowers at Broadway Stages, a 24,000-square-foot green roof in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Situated on top of an active TV/film studio, next to the City's most modern wastewater treatment plant, and alongside the City's largest Superfund site, Kingsland Wildflowers offers a positive juxtaposition to the surrounding infrastructure and an example of how to successfully incorporate ecological habitat and community access into heavy industrial areas.

About your Guide
Willis Elkins is the Executive Director of the Newtown Creek Alliance, a community-based non-profit dedicated to restoring, revealing, and revitalizing Newtown Creek. Willis has worked for NCA since 2013 and developed a number of key organization programs relating to public programming, environmental monitoring, restoration, and community access. Willis is also co-chair of the Newtown Creek Superfund Community Advisory Group and a former member of Brooklyn's Community Board 1.

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