BWRC hosted its first Breakfast Talk of 2019 on March 15th. Last fall, the Brooklyn Navy Yard publicly released an ambitious Masterplan for the future development and growth of its 200 acre-plus campus. Adam Lubinsky, AICP and Managing Principal of …
Category: Waterfront News
Visions for Newtown Creek
BWRC hosted its first Breakfast Talk of the semester, “Visions for Newtown Creek,” on October 12th, 2018. Speakers representing the Newtown Creek Alliance and Riverkeeper outlined their comprehensive, community-driven Vision Plan for the remediation of Newtown Creek.
Lisa Bloodgood, Director …
Autumn 2011 Waterfront Roundup
COMPETING BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK DEVELOPMENT PLANS UNVEILED
At a public meeting on November 22, seven of the city’s biggest developers unveiled competing plans for a hotel and condos in what are currently two empty parcels sandwiched between Pier 1 and …
Free and Low-Cost Boat Tours of Newtown Creek in October!
The Newtown Creek Alliance and the Working Harbor Committee have teamed up to offer educators a free boat tour of Newtown Creek on Tuesday, October 18. Low-cost ($10) tours of the Creek will be offered to the public on Sunday, …
Upcoming – Newtown Creek Bike Tour, October 1
Join our comrades at the Newtown Creek Alliance for a bike tour of Newtown Creek this Saturday, October 1, departing from N. 11th and Wythe at 2 p.m. They’ve provided an annotated route map.…
Coastal Flooding Zones and Brooklyn Waterfront Development
Whether or not the media overhyped Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene (the hype was indeed justified for the once-in-a-generation flooding event in upstate New York and Vermont), the storm did bring New York City’s planning for potential flooding into the broader public …
Gribbles and Shipworms! A Cleaner NY Harbor Creates a Problem for New Waterfront Parks
Make sure to check out this fascinating article in today’s New York Times about the cleaner water in New York Harbor enabling the return of two sea creatures–gribbles and shipworms–that snack on the wooden pilings supporting several new waterfront parks …
