On June 3rd NYC Parks presented their second round of designs for the Motiva site (which surrounds the inlet) at Bushwick Inlet Park to the Community Board #1 Parks & Waterfront Committee. The consensus in the (virtual call) room was the new designs created by design firm Abel Bainnson Butz successfully incorporated feedback from committee […]
Dear Park Friends, There are such good reasons to support your local open space friends group at Bushwick Inlet Park. Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park runs on 100% volunteer energy and your donations! FBIP is a prime source of community engagement. Our newly created gardening committee revitalized 3 gardens through major bouts of weeding and […]
The MTA continues to pose an existential threat to Bushwick Inlet Park! This land is our land…no towers on what’s ours! The MTA wants to build a condo tower on publicly-owned land on our waterfront on 40 Quay Street in Greenpoint. No to selling 2 acres of precious land along the shore of Bushwick Inlet […]
Last Tuesday we lost a pillar in our North Brooklyn community, Luis Garden Acosta, the legendary founder of “El Puente” in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a pioneering youth development organization that defies any simple description. Luis was an environmental leader, a community activist, an organizer, an educator and a beloved friend. Here is a quote from Luis’ […]
The tanks take up 1.4 acres of proposed open space as well as block pure access and key sight lines to the East River and Bushwick Inlet waterfront. Not only did the community fight tooth and nail to save the CitiStorage site, but it also spent 9 years warding off a massive power plant planned […]
Smithsonian January 10, 2018 By Emily Matchar Municipalities and military bases are using the bivalve to defend against flooding and damage from climate change-driven storms About the benefits of oyster restoration. FBIP very pleased to be doing our part in Bushwick Inlet. Thanks as always to our friends at Billion Oyster Project, NY Harbor School, […]
As many of you have seen, a group by the name of Maker Park is holding a “Design Display” meeting on Tuesday evening. “Maker Park” is a proposal to supplant the Bushwick Inlet Park masterplan with a new plan that would retain the tanks and buildings at the Bayside Fuel Oil site, repurposing these relics […]
Waterfront Alliance December 2, 2016 On November 22, the Brooklyn waterfront communities of Williamsburg and Greenpoint erupted in cheers at the City’s announcement of a deal to acquire 11 acres known as the CitiStorage site. This stretch of waterfront land, purchased for $160 million after lengthy negotiations with the owner, will allow Bushwick Inlet Park […]
Today on Behalf of the City of New York FBIP Has Submitted Their Generous & Fair Offer of $100 Million Dollars to Norm Brodsky through Cushman & Wakefield’s Brokered Auction! Also Cushman’s Marketing Brochure for the Property Contained Errors & Omissions, So We Created & Submitted an Updated One! Dear Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park, […]
FBIP’s Kim Fraser Interviewed by Michael G. Haskins on WBAI – Start at 1:39 [audio_playr src_mp3=”http://nuarchive.wbai.org/mp3/wbai_160715_060005moshowfri.mp3″] wbai.org