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

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

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.