Citylights Building
4-74 48th Avenue
Third Floor Activity Room
Hunters Point, Queens
All are welcome at the Friends of Gantry general membership meeting. Learn more about how you can get involved in caring for the gardens in this waterfront State Park and more!
Four Immediate Ways to Equitably Improve NYC’s Parks
2pm
Talking Transition on Duarte Square
6th Avenue and Canal Street
Manhattan, NYC
Join a spirited dialogue with multiple parks experts, and review a proposal by NY4P to make New York City's parks more equitable. Kids activities included.
Talking Transition
Open every day of the week from 9:00am to 9:00pm
Talking Transition is an open conversation about the future of New York City. Joing New Yorkers online, in the streets, and in a new meeting place on Canal Street to help shape the transition to a new mayor. The election may be over, but you can continue to make your voice, your question, your idea, and your neighborhood heard.
Protecting the Waterfront and Revitalizing it for Fun, Recreation, Commerce, and Transportation
4:30pm
Talking Transition on Duarte Square
6th Avenue and Canal Street
Manhattan, NYC
Contribute ideas to the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance's widely-praised Waterfront Policy Platform to help inform the potential waterfront development policies of the new mayor.
Talking Transition
Open every day of the week from 9:00am to 9:00pm
Talking Transition is an open conversation about the future of New York City. Joing New Yorkers online, in the streets, and in a new meeting place on Canal Street to help shape the transition to a new mayor. The election may be over, but you can continue to make your voice, your question, your idea, and your neighborhood heard.
Materials for the Arts
33-00 Northern Blvd
Long Island City, Queens
Over the past year, the NYC Center for Materials Reuse has been studying the magnitude of how Materials for the Arts helps protect the environment, which resulted in their "Waste Characterization Study".
Join them in seeing how the environmental impact of reuse can be understood through the work of Materials for the Arts Artist-in-Residence Vadis Turner.
Newtown Creek Community Advisory Group (CAG) Meeting
6:30 – 8:30pm
LaGuardia Community College
31-10 Thomson Ave, E Building, Room E501
Long Island City, Queens
Topic: Environmental Protection Agency'’s presentation will provide an overview of the Phase I investigation at the Newtown Creek Superfund Site and will explain sampling activities that have taken place thus far in air, surface/subsurface sediment, and surface water. There will be ample time for questions and discussion about process, sampling, reports, and next steps.
Click here for map and subway directions: http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/About/Visit/
Enter the college at the E Building, Thomson Ave entrance, and take the elevator to the 5th floor. As you exit the elevator, Room E501 is down the hall on your left.
Couldn’t make it to the last meeting? All meeting notes are posted on the CAG website HERE - click on October 23, 2013, or choose the date you are interested in.
Talking Transition on Duarte Square
6th Avenue and Canal Street
Manhattan, NYC
Join The Noguchi Museum in partnership with the Queens Economic Development Corporation and the Long Island City Partnership as they host a two part panel conversation focused on the creative sector in the Queens community.
Talking Transition
Open every day of the week from 9:00am to 9:00pm
Talking Transition is an open conversation about the future of New York City. Joing New Yorkers online, in the streets, and in a new meeting place on Canal Street to help shape the transition to a new mayor. The election may be over, but you can continue to make your voice, your question, your idea, and your neighborhood heard.
Talking Transition on Duarte Square
6th Avenue and Canal Street
Manhattan, NYC
Join New Yorkers from across the city for a facilitated town hall-style discussion to elevate the policy issues and ideas that New Yorkers believe should be the highest priorities for the new mayor. (RSVP only)
Talking Transition
Open every day of the week from 9:00am to 9:00pm
Talking Transition is an open conversation about the future of New York City. Joing New Yorkers online, in the streets, and in a new meeting place on Canal Street to help shape the transition to a new mayor. The election may be over, but you can continue to make your voice, your question, your idea, and your neighborhood heard.
CONSTRUCTION AND RESTORATION OF THE QUEENSBRIDGE SEAWALL HAS BEGUN!
Groundbreaking of the Queensbridge Seawall Restoration on May 10, 2013.
After over ten years of inaccessibility and disrepair, the Parks Department held a groundbreaking for the restoration and construction of the Queensbridge Park Seawall on May 10, 2013.
It is estimated that construction will take a year to complete and we will post photos and updates about the work and its progress here and on our website.
BIG!Compost, a program of Build It Green! NYC, is a community-scale composting network, that works to increase capacity for, acceptance of, and participation in composting in western Queens. We serve the public by hosting weekly and event-specific food scrap drop-offs, training community members in urban composting best practices, and providing high-quality compost to amend our city’s soils. The finished compost is used in community gardens, on street trees, and in public beautification projects.
Instead of adding your food scraps to the landfill, you can drop them off at one of BIG! Compost's weekly drop off locations:
Sunday:
9am to Noon
Jackson Heights Greenmarket
34th Ave at 77th Street
Jackson Heights, Queens
Monday:
8-10am
Queens Library Steinway Branch
21-45 31st Street
Astoria, Queens
2-6pm
Hour Children Food Pantry
36-49 11th Street
Ravenswood, Queens
Tuesday:
8-10am
On the west side of Broadway near the N/Q train
Astoria, Queens
More info: www.bignyc.org/compost
Wednesday:
5-8pm
Hour Children Food Pantry
36-49 11th Street
Ravenswood, Queens
Thursday:
3:30-7:30pm
ARROW Community Center
35th Street btwn 35th & 36th Avenues
Astoria, Queens
4- 7pm
Hour Children Food Pantry
36-49 11th Street
Ravenswood, Queens
Saturday:
10:30am to Noon
Queens Library: Sunnyside
43-06 Greenpoint Avenue
Long Island City, Queens
Queens Library: Long Island City
37-44 21st Street
Long Island City, Queens
To learn more about BIG! Compost and to get involved, email: compost@bignyc.org Times and schedule are subject to change. For up-to-date information, visit: http://bignyc.org/drop-sites
Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Visitor Center General Public Visiting Hours
Saturdays
9am to 3pm
Visitor Center at Newtown Creek
329 Greenpoint Avenue
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
The Visitor Center at Newtown Creek tells the story of New York City’s water and wastewater systems. Located at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (WTP), one of New York City's 14 treatment plants, the Visitor Center features DEP employees who narrate the cycle of water from water supply to distribution, wastewater treatment, and harbor water quality. This fascinating new facility will help you learn about the one billion gallons of water New Yorkers use every day, the thousands of miles of pipes, aqueducts, and water mains, and the responsibilities, through the eyes of our dedicated workforce, to serve New Yorkers.
SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK
Broadway & Vernon Blvd
Ravenswood, Queens
Socrates Sculpture Park's 13th Annual:
EMERGING ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
This annual show features newly commissioned works by the recipients of Socrates Sculpture Park's Emerging Artist Fellowships (EAF). The EAF Program residency culminates with the EAF Exhibition, which runs annually from September to March. Representing a broad range of materials, working methods and subject matter, the diverse sculptural works in this exhibition are presented against the Park's spectacular waterfront view of the Manhattan skyline.
DAILY until Sunday, March 31, 2014
FREE
www.socratessculpturepark.org
Waterfront Vision Plan for Astoria & Long Island City, Queens
The Waterfront Vision Plan was created for the community and by the community with Green Shores NYC & The Trust for Public Land.
In the summer and fall of 2010, hundreds of Western Queens residents came together to participate in seven neighborhood listening sessions, two area-wide brainstorming sessions and a waterfront bus tour generating more than a thousand comments, ideas and solutions for creating a more connected, useful and beautiful waterfront.
To request a copy of the plan by mail or for more information, email: mail@greenshoresnyc.org.
IT'S YOUR WATERFRONT!
Green Shores NYC works to enliven the Astoria-Long Island City waterfront by caring for and advocating for safe public parks, green spaces, street trees, waterways and a waterfront greenway. Visit us online at: www.greenshoresnyc.org
To include your event on our updates and calendar, please email: mail@greenshoresnyc.org and put "EVENTS" in the subject line.
