Fall 2019 Encore Gardening Day
2019-11-09 10:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park for MORE fall mulching and weeding, and pruning! This is a fun opportunity if you missed out last time, or if you want to garden again!
Last spring FBIP community volunteers designed new gardens and planted over 500 new species and spent the summer weeding, mulching and watering-
Now we invite all garden lovers, young and old to continue to help put these gardens to bed for the winter.
Everyone welcome. Gloves and tools provided!
Support graciously provided by New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Partnerships for Parks & North Brooklyn Parks Alliance.
Please register for free.

Whose Waterfront? North Brooklyn’s Environmental Justice Saga
2019-11-19 18:30 - 20:00 | Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepoint Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201
How are communities building the future of the waterfront?
Fifteen years after the rezoning of the North Brooklyn waterfront, Brooklyn Brewery Co-Founder Steve Hindy moderates a discussion on the Williamsburg and Greenpoint communities as a locus of environmental activism, from successfully fighting what would have been the East Coast’s largest trash transfer station in the 1990s, to halting a massive powerplant in the 00s, to continued advocacy for realizing the promise of Bushwick Inlet Park today. Join us for this conversation on the power of neighborhood coalitions to protect public health and foster equitable public spaces. Panelists include Frances Lucerna of El Puente, Adam Perlmutter, NYC Criminal Court Judge whose prior legal work included putting a stop to building the TransGas power plant in North Brooklyn, and Katherine Conkling Thompson of Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park.
Presented in connection with the exhibitions Taking Care of Brooklyn on Pierrepont Street and Waterfront at BHS DUMBO

Admission

General Admission $10
Member Admission $5
Reserve tickets.

Garden Celebration Happy Hour
2019-11-20 18:30 - 20:30 | The Diamond, 43 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11222, United States
We Designed, We Weeded, We Planted, We Mulched.
Time to Celebrate the New Gardens!
Join us for Happy Hour at The Diamond.
Let’s toast to the power of community stewardship!
Free RVSP.

Biology/Art Instruction: Oyster, Watercolor Triptych
2020-01-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park Building, 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Oysters played a big role in the history and ecology of New York City including Bushwick Inlet and its environs. We almost lost our oyster population, but they are now making a major comeback and helping to clean up our waterways.
Scientific illustrator Monica Schroeder will guide us through a talk about this subject and and then follow this up with a hands on intro watercolor painting session.
We’ll start with a 30 minute slide show about these fascinating bivalve mollusks, and then follow that up with a 30 minute intro to watercolors: materials, mark-making practice, basics of color theory and color mixing exercises. Then you’ll have 2 hours to paint your own creation.
No painting experience required.
All materials are supplied as well as light refreshments.
Registration required.
* Please register only if you plan to actually attend. The class size is small to ensure an intimate hands on learning experience.
Children 14 and over (high school students) are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at all times.

Motiva Site Design Presentation
2020-01-27 18:30 - 21:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park Building, 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
NYC Parks will be presenting their design of the Motiva section of Bushwick Inlet Park to the Parks & Waterfront Committee of Community Board #1.
Come see with your own eyes and provide feedback on this next phase of BIP’s development.
This precious part of the park lies on the bank of Bushwick Inlet. Your input will be valuable. Please partake.

Biology/Art Instruction - Wildlife of Bushwick Inlet: Watercolor & Oil Pastel
2020-02-22 13:00 - 16:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park Building, 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Bushwick Inlet is a small waterfront area along the East River just north of Bushwick Inlet Park. Despite its small size, it is home to a surprising number and diversity of birds, mammals, crustaceans, fish, and much more.
Through a 15-minute slide show we’ll explore some of its natural wonder, following the food chain of wildlife down to beautiful and mysterious plankton.
This is followed by a brief tutorial on using watercolors and oil pastels.
You’ll have two relaxing hours to create your own artwork design or follow a guided art project.
No experience necessary.
Materials include watercolor, 9″ x 12″paper, oil pastels, a transfer to trace.
Taught by Monica Schroeder, scientific illustrator & kayaker. monbertkayak@gmail.com
Light refreshments will be provided.
Registration required.
* Please register only if you plan to actually attend. The class size is small to ensure an intimate hands on learning experience.
Children 14 and over (high school students) are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at all times.

Call to Artists
2020-02-29 | Bushwick Inlet Park Building, 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
NYC Parks invites you to submit your work for exhibition in the gallery at the NYC Park and Recreation building at Bushwick Inlet Park.
Parks is proud to be New York City’s greenest agency. The LEED Platinum building at Bushwick Inlet Park was designed with sustainability in mind and features a range of green building solutions. Parks is committed to advancing sustainability practices in park design and asks artists to share their interpretation of what it means to be sustainable. We ask artists to submit works for inclusion in the gallery space at Bushwick Inlet Park that draws on their experiences in NYC Parks in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, on the rich culture of activism and sustainability surrounding parkland in these neighborhoods.
Note that this call for submissions is for display within the building interior but strong submissions that include public art for display within the outdoor space at Bushwick Inlet Park will be considered as well. Those submissions are subject to Parks’ outdoor temporary art submission guidelines:
https://www.nycgovparks.org/art-and-antiquities/temporary-guidelines
Submission Deadline: February 29, 2020
Exhibition Dates: May 2020 until November 2020
All submissions should include:

A brief description of proposed exhibition and/or artist’s statement
Representative renderings or images of proposed artwork
Up to 10 images of past work
Checklist, numbered to correspond to images with title, date, medium, dimensions Artist’s resume

Submitted material will not be returned. Proposals will be reviewed and selected by NYC Parks and the Bushwick Inlet Park Art Gallery Committee. All media will be considered, but the gallery has a very limited capacity for three-dimensional work. Incomplete proposals will not be considered. Applicants will be notified whether their work has been accepted for exhibition by TBD.
Proposals can be sent to:
Bushwick.Inlet@parks.nyc.gov or
Bushwick Inlet Park Art Submission
Attn: Mary Salig-Husain, North Brooklyn Parks Director
86 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11249

FBIP Garden Committee Spring Planning Meeting
2020-03-10 18:30 - 19:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park Building, 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
With Spring on the horizon the gardens are waiting for us. There is much planning to be done as a couple big gardening events are already on the calendar.
Join us for our first-of-the-season planning meeting.
We will be addressing and welcoming input on these gardening items (but not limited to):

Maintenance lessons learned from last year
General gardens needs
New focus on planted beds near the BIP building
Using ground cover as a way to interrupt the weed growth, stop soil erosion, and keep the ground cooler in summer heat.
Upcoming events:

3/28 It’s My Park Day (IMPD)
5/2 Riverkeeper Sweep

Free registration.

Spring It's My Park Day at Bushwick Inlet Park
2020-03-28 10:00 - 13:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Vernal Awakening at Bushwick Inlet Park

BIP Permaculture Garden Tour- Learn about the fungus among us, cluster planting, and resilient ecological planting practices
Clean up, mulch and garden prep
Ground cover planting
BIP Entrance planting

Free registration.

Motiva Site Redesign Presentation
2020-06-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Webex, NY, 11249, United States
NYC Parks will be presenting their next round of designs of the Motiva section of Bushwick Inlet Park to the Parks & Waterfront Committee of Community Board #1, after receiving feedback on their initial presentation.
Come see with your own eyes and provide feedback on this next phase of BIP’s development.
This precious part of the park lies on the bank of Bushwick Inlet. Your input will be valuable. Please partake.
PLACE: WEBEX
*Due to the pandemic this is a virtual meeting being held remotely.
Below are options for you to connect
https://nyccb.webex.com/nyccb/onstage/g.php?MTID=e3d006da75281c321207dd56eb29484ec
Event number:
712 781 039
Event password:
[REDACTED]
Meeting notice & agenda.

It's My Park Gardening Day
2020-07-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Come garden with us!
We are happy to announce that we are prepared to start up volunteer events on a scaled back basis with limited numbers of volunteers. Throughout the seasons we usually have many ways to get involved with BIP but with COVID-19 we have had to curtail our programing. We have been working with the Parks Dept to establish safe re-opening protocols and equipment.
To keep us all safe during COVID-19, this gardening activity is limited to 15 volunteers per the Parks Dept. Please do not bring along extra people without signing them up first. Thanks!!! Masks are required for all participants .
We will be weeding, mulching, pruning, cleaning up and watering (if necessary).
Bring water bottle, gloves (if you have them), sunscreen and don’t forget your mask!
We will have tools, bags and gloves.
Free registration required.*

Weekly Gardening
2020-08-06 18:00 - 2020-10-06 19:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Each week one evening we will be weeding, mulching and watering (if necessary). We have tools and gloves (but bring yours if you have them). Bring water and be sure to wear your mask. Everyone welcome but please note in your sign up if you are bringing others. Join us!
Sign up here.
Tuesday Evening Dates available:
8/25, 9/1, 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29 (cancelled due to rain), 10/6

City of Water Day Low Tide Nature Discovery
2020-09-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Celebrate City of Water Day with Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park! Marine biologists from the Coastal Classroom will lead the community in workshops to discover and explore marine life at low tide on the Bushwick Inlet Park jetty. Participants will be learning about the ecosystems and wildlife living along the shoreline of the East River, resiliency, and restoration of original habitat.
The biologists will seine the shoreline for marine life. Participants 16 and older can assist them but must sign a waiver.
We will be practicing strict social distancing. Groups of 10 people at a time will be working with the scientists.
A face covering is required for each person.
Please join us! Sign up here.
Enter the park at 86 Kent Ave near N 9th Street and then find us near the riverfront.

Fall Planting Planning Meeting
2020-10-13 17:00 - 18:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
On Saturday Oct 17th FBIP is having a big planting and RiverKeeper sweep event. We need volunteers to help organize and direct the action. Please come to an in-person meeting at Bushwick Inlet Park to discuss needs and roles. Many thanks!

Sign up

Riverkeeper Sweep 2020
2020-10-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and Riverkeeper for a cleanup, planting, and tree service project at Bushwick Inlet Park on Saturday, October 17, 2020 for the 9th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep, a day of service for the Hudson River.
Volunteers will meet at the gardens in Bushwick Inlet Park, where street parking will be available. We ask all Sweep volunteers to wear sturdy shoes or boots, clothing that they can get dirty, and to bring a hat, sunscreen, a full reusable water bottle, and a face mask, work gloves and hand sanitizer. This site is suitable for elementary-aged children with proper adult supervision.
*IMPORTANT! To ensure the safety of volunteers, Sweep Site Leaders, park staff, and our communities, we ask that volunteers adhere to the following guidelines:

Volunteers are required to pre-register for Sweep, and bring their own masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, and water.
All participants and Sweep Leaders must wear masks that fully cover both their nose and mouth, at all times, no exceptions.
All volunteers must maintain a minimum distance of 6 feet and wear masks at all times. When announcements are being made, a distance of 15 feet should be maintained.
Volunteers should carpool only with members of their own household.
Volunteers should not participate if they have ANY signs of illness or if they have potentially been exposed to COVID-19 within the previous two weeks.

Required registration.
Questions? Contact Julie from Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park at julielmarlowe@gmail.com or Riverkeeper at sweep@riverkeeper.org.

Purple Up Our BIP Crocus Planting
2020-11-07 10:00 - 13:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Let’s put the Bushwick Inlet Park gardens to bed and look forward to spring. Join FBIP volunteers to plant 100’s of purple crocus bulbs generously donated by the Parks Dept! We will have gloves and tools available (bring your gloves if you have them 🙂 We will be practicing safe social distancing and masks are mandatory.
Meet by the gardens just past the soccer field.
Please register.

Bushwick Inlet Park: Where Are We Now?
2020-11-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
The North Brooklyn Parks Alliance second virtual panel discussion from their series The Future of Public Space: Infrastructure Projects in North Brooklyn.
We will celebrate New York as a global river city, examining Brooklyn’s historic 2005 waterfront rezoning in the age of climate change, as well as the creation (and complexities) of a new 27-acre park along the East River. Join Asima Jansveld, Vice President of the High Line Network, Adam Ganser, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Parks, Katherine Conkling Thompson, Co-Chair of Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and Regina Myer, former President of Brooklyn Bridge Park in an inspiring dialogue.
Registration required.

Biology/Art: My Bushwick Inlet Story/Accordion Book
2021-01-23 14:00 - 15:15 | Zoom
Join us for a lecture & talk about the Bushwick Inlet Park waterfront ecology & history, followed by a guided art session to make an accordian book.

* A Zoom link will be included in the registration confirmation. *
Free registration required.

We’ll start with a 20 minute slideshow & talk about the Bushwick Inlet Park waterfront, its creatures, plants, and history.
Then enjoy a guided art session to make an accordion book. Fill it with art, poetry, a short story, collage or anything you can imagine.
Art supplies are those you might have at home or easy to get.
ART SUPPLIES TO HAVE AT HAND:

A piece of drawing, multimedia, or watercolor paper. Or even printer paper. At least 16″ long would be good. Or we can glue a few sheets together
A piece of cardboard to cut two book covers from. Delivery box, food box, anything stiff. At least 2″ x 4″ or larger.
Decorative paper to use for both the covers, a few inches larger than your cardboard. Old book pages, magazine pages, wrapping paper.
A ruler
A scissor, exacto, or cutter – any tool that will cut your cardboard
Pencil
Paper glue, glue stick, or white crafting glue

Paints, colored pencils, markers, pens or collage materials, Anything which you would like to fill your book
No experience necessary.
Taught by Monica Schroeder, scientific illustrator & kayaker.

Virtual Bushwick Inlet Wildlife: Sunset Silhouette
2021-02-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
Learn about the local wildlife around Bushwick Inlet and create fun artwork inspired by its creatures.

* A Zoom link will be included in the registration confirmation. *
Free registration required.
20-minute slideshow and talk, 40-minute relaxing art project suitable for beginners.
We’ll start at the top of the animal kingdom classification tree and make our way down to the tiny living creatures, plankton, that are critical to not only animal life, but to human life as well.
Together we’ll paint or draw a colorful sunset or underwater scene and layer the silhouette of an animal over it.
Participants will receive a pdf to print out and trace. Or, draw your own animal silhouette.
SUPPLIES:

Any color medium, such as watercolors, pencils, crayons, or pastels.
A black crayon, pencil, or oil pastel – anything that can go on top of your colors.
Printer paper, watercolor paper, or any art paper suitable for your medium. 8 x 10 as a minimum size suggested if using the printout.
Graphite or chalk for the tracing.
The printout or your own drawing to trace.

You’ll learn how to transfer artwork. The demonstration will use watercolors for the background and a black oil pastel for the silhouette.
60 – 90 minutes. Please have art supplies ready.

Taught by Monica Schroeder, scientific illustrator & kayaker.

Biology/Art: Local Flowers/Intro to Botanical Illustration
2021-03-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park volunteers have planted several garden beds and continue to expand the beds to include more of the park. Crocuses were added last year as part of the city’s plant it purple initiative. Join us on Zoom to see and discuss some of the flowering plants soon to be seen in the gardens while demonstrating the basics of Botanical Illustration.
Monica Schroeder, a professional scientific Illustrator, will lead us through plant anatomy and warm up drawing exercises and then dive into a simple botanical illustration. (A Crocus Template will be provided for those who wish to trace.)
The class will switch between slides and live instruction using pencils and watercolor.
Use any medium you prefer that allows for detailed work – even just a plain pencil and copy paper. (Most drug stores sell colored pencils and watercolor kits for less then $10, a great way to get started!)
The demo will be done using drawing pencils, colored pencils, watercolor pencils, gouache, and watercolor.
All skill levels welcome.
SUGGESTED ART SUPPLIES:

2H and a 2B pencil (any hard or soft pencils)
White eraser & a kneaded eraser
Sketch pad or paper
Scrap paper
Paper for your chosen medium such as watercolor paper or colored pencil paper
Watercolors** colored pencils, or gouache
Watercolor round brushes: size 3/0, size 1 & size 4

**Most drug stores carry watercolor sets for less than $10, although student or artist-grade have more brilliant colors.
To download a traceable or printable template and view inspirational images, please visit Monica’s website and choose the crocus options.
Free registration & Zoom link access below.

Spring 2021 Convocation and Meet Your D33 NYC Council Candidates
2021-03-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
A Zoom Webinar.

Come hear updates on park development, programming, volunteering AND meet your District 33 council candidates.

Learn about upcoming programs + events

Mycology webinars + workshops
Planting + stewardship
Oysters in the Inlet
Summer music series

We need you! Learn how to get involved

Programming
Outreach
Fundraising

Listen to the District 33 City Council candidates discuss BIP and related open space topics.
Free registration & Zoom link

Wake Up the Gardens at BIP
2021-04-17 10:00 - 13:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
All ages welcome! We will be weeding (selectively!), mulching a new path, preparing the new garden planter “D” for the May 1st planting, and pruning roses. We will provide tools and gloves (but bring yours if you have them 🙂 Bring a reusable bottle of water to drink and WEAR A MASK!
Free registration required.

Biology/Art: The Fungus Among Us/ Colored Pencil and Ink
2021-04-24 16:30 - 18:00 | Zoom
It’s not an animal and it’s not a plant – it’s a fungus!
Led by scientific illustrator Monica Schroeder we’ll discover the weird world of fungi with an informational slideshow and a step by step art demonstration for all to follow and create a fun, colorful artwork. No experience necessary!.
We’ll choose between a chanterelle or an amanita muscaria (toadstool) for the demo. Use any medium you prefer that allows for detailed work. The demo will use pencil, colored pencils and an ink pen or marker. Topics and techniques covered will include light and shadow, creating a 3-D form, color theory, mixing color for shadows, inking a drawing, and more.
All skill levels welcome. Perfect for beginners.
Topics:

Drawing basics
Creating volume & light
Drawing, coloring, and inking.
Choosing colors

RECOMMENDED SUPPLIES:

2H and a 6H drawing pencil (any hard or soft pencils)
White eraser
Scrap paper for drawing practice
Nicer paper for your mushroom drawing
Colored pencils & a blending tool
Ink markers or pen

Please have art supplies ready.
Free registration required.

Riverkeeper Sweep 2021
2021-05-01 10:00 - 13:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Join the Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and Riverkeeper for a cleanup and planting event at Bushwick Inlet Park on Saturday, May 1, 2021 for the 10th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep, a day of service for the Hudson River and its tributaries (and New York Harbor).
Volunteers will meet at Bushwick Inlet Park, 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn down by the water. We ask all Sweep volunteers to wear sturdy shoes or boots, clothing that they can get dirty, and to bring a hat, sunscreen, a full reusable water bottle, and a face mask, work gloves, and hand sanitizer. This site is suitable for elementary-aged children with proper adult supervision.
Registration required.
*IMPORTANT! To ensure the safety of volunteers, Sweep Site Leaders, park staff, and our communities, we ask that volunteers adhere to the following guidelines:

Volunteers are required to pre-register for Sweep, and bring their own masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, and water.
All participants and Sweep Leaders must wear masks that fully cover both their nose and mouth, at all times, no exceptions.
All volunteers must maintain a minimum distance of 6 feet and wear masks at all times.
When announcements are being made, a distance of 15 feet should be maintained.
Volunteers should carpool only with members of their own household.
Volunteers should not participate if they have ANY signs of illness or if they have potentially been exposed to COVID-19 within the previous two weeks.

Questions? Contact Riverkeeper at sweep@riverkeeper.org or site leader Katherine Thompson at kcthompson718@gmail.com .
To support the Riverkeeper Sweep and Riverkeeper’s year-round work to protect and restore the Hudson River and its tributaries, please consider becoming a Riverkeeper member or renewing your Riverkeeper membership with a donation of any amount, or starting a fundraiser to encourage your friends and family to become Riverkeeper members. Learn more and donate at: https://give.classy.org/Sweep2021

Weeding Wednesdays
2021-05-12 17:00 - 18:00, 2021-05-19 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-05-26 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-06-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
We will be weeding, mulching and watering (if necessary) the Bushwick Inlet Park planted areas. We have tools and gloves (but bring yours if you have them). Bring water and be sure to wear your mask. Park stewardship rocks! Come help us give some love to the gardens.
Free registration required.

Fungi and Plants: An Essential Romance
2021-05-12 19:00 - 20:15 | Zoom
Fungi and plants are ideal life partners, there is evidence that they may have even facilitated each other’s move onto land over a billion years ago. Fungi take in oxygen, releasing carbon dioxide, while breaking down rock and organic matter to release nutrients essential for plants to grow. Plants recycle the carbon dioxide, releasing oxygen, while photosynthesizing to produce carbon sugars which they share with fungi so that both plants and fungi can flourish. There are a multitude of interesting relationships, each of which is unique. Join us with educator Luke Sarrantonio as we peel back the curtain and take a peek at these amazing organisms and the fascinating connections they rely on to survive and thrive. Also, learn about ways we can facilitate these relationships to influence the health of the ecosystems that we live in and gardens that we tend to.
Luke Sarrantonio (website – instagram) grew up in a small rural town in the upper Hudson Valley/Catskill Region (about 2 hours north of NYC) and spent much of his childhood exploring the fascinating interwoven ecosystems that make up this unique natural landscape. In college at SUNY ESF he was blessed to work under some truly inspiring minds in the world of Life Sciences and Mycology (study of fungi). Following his passion through travels in the Pacific Northwest and work on a shiitake farm in the finger lakes region of New York, he eventually landed back in the Hudson Valley. Currently he is working to develop education programming and mushroom based products under the name Mycophilic: for the love of Fungi.
This will be a Zoom meeting. Free registration required.

Where's Our Park? Rally
2021-05-26 18:30 - 19:00 | BIP CitiStorage Site, N 11th St & Kent Ave, Brooklyn, 11249, United States
We are calling on the City of New York to create a funding plan for the entirety of Bushwick Inlet Park that will include line items in the coming fiscal year budget.
In 2016 Mayor de Blasio made history with his incredible rescue of the CitiStorage property from private sale. Since then all 27 acres of Bushwick Inlet Park lay in the taxpayers’ hands and 4 more acres are in development into usable park space. However, no funds been budgeted towards developing the remaining two-thirds of the park. Meanwhile the Department of City Planning recently reported that North Brooklyn created the most new housing units in the entire city. 20,000 units! Thousands more are in development now. 16 years ago the City promised to create 27-acre Bushwick Inlet Park to help mitigate against this massive increase in neighborhood density, for our health. But, only 10 acres are in the works or open. This is all the while our district open space ratio is stuck at .6 acres per 1,000 residents well below the city average of 1.8 acres.
The fiscal year 2022 budget is in the final stretch. We demand the City follow through on its commitment to fund the rest of the park.
Join us for a Where’s Our Park? Rally to amplify this demand. Our local elected representatives have got the ball rolling with a letter to the mayor. See you there!

@bushwickinletpark
#wheresourpark #deblasio #bushwickinletpark #nycmayorsoffice
♬ original sound – Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park
