GWAPP is a coalition of over 40 community organizations dedicated to education and outreach on issues affecting the environment, waterfront and neighborhoods of North Brooklyn.

NEWS & EVENTS

May 16th is Where's My Park?!? Day

Remember the 2005 Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning? In it, we were told that in exchange for enormous buildings along the water front we would receive a number of parks and open spaces to relax in, to get up by the water, to play soccer, to do whatever we please!

Not one park has been completed, not one has been opened.

So while the rest of New York City is celebrating "It's My Park Day!" on May 16th, NAG and GWAPP will be instead asking, "Where's My Park?!?" in an act of community awareness and civic action. Bring your kids and your grandmas to East River Park at 12:30 to make some pro-park crafts and picket signs, and then join us at 2:30 as we march down past several of the promised parks' locked gates. The day will end with a block party full of music, games, refreshments, and community... in a parking lot.

Come help us make a scene! It's the only way we'll unplug the City's deaf ears across the river.


Related Links
Parks in Greenpoint/Williamsburg
THE PROJECT

With the rezoning behind us, GWAPP is now focusing on making sure the community gets the new parks and open space promised to us. This page will keep you updated on the several existing and proposed parks projects in our community.
Parks overview map
Click here for an overview map- the GWAPP/TPL Open Space Project:
GWAPP/TPL Open Space Map

New Street End Park at India Street
Check here for the status of the new Street End Park GWAPP is designing and (hopefully) building at the end of India Street in Greenpoint:
www.gwapp.org/issues/IndiaStreetEndPark

Sgt Dougherty Park
As part of the Kosciusko Bridge project, it's been determined that all possible alternatives to the bridge improvement project will impact Sgt. Dougherty Park. As such, those impacts must be mitigated. NYSDOT has presented possible mitigations that would improve and expand Sgt. Dougherty Park which the Kosciusko Bridge Staleholders Advisory Committee Parks & Open Space Sub-Committee and the community has had the opportunity to help shape.
Parks Memo


Maps and List of Proposed Features

New Park at the end of Greenpoint Avenue
Click here to see the final conceptual design plan for a new park at the end of Greenpoint Avenue. The NYC Economic Development Corporation and the NYC Parks Department are designing and building a new park on the former site of the WNYC Radio transmitter tower site and the former Greenpoint Ferry Terminal:
www.gwapp.org/GPAve Park Concept Design

New "Under the Williamsburg Bridge Park"
In the 2004 GWAPP/TPL Open Space Study, a new park was proposed to serve the Southside community on city-owned property beneath and south of the Williamsburg Bridge on the East River waterfront. Council Member David Yassky recently issued a "Waterfront Waste Report" that lists city-owned waterfront properties and calls for them to be converted to more appropriate uses. This proposed park site is one of them. See the report here:
www.gwapp.org/Waterfrontwastereport

OUR MISSION

GWAPP is dedicated to promoting parks in Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Our community has long been near the bottom of the list of community boards in New York City in terms of park space per capita, as well as well below recommended norms for tree canopy cover in urban environments. Parks and trees are vital to a healthy community- providing much needed recreation space for children and adults alike as well as cleaning the urban air.

  
DOCUMENTS
Councilman Yassky's 2005 Waterfront Waste Report
Councilman David Yassky, chair of the City Council Waterfront Committee, has identified city-owned sites on the waterfront and calls for them to be converted to more appropriate uses. Included is the site identified in the 2004 GWAPP/TPL Open Space report as a possible site for a new waterfront park adjacent to the Williamsburg Bridge.
Final Concept Design for Greenpoint Avenue Park
A project of the Economic Development Corportation and the Parks Dept, this park is at the end of Greenpoint Avenue on the site of the former WNYC Radio transmission towers- also site of the former Greenpoint Ferry Terminal.


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