Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park

Weeding Wednesdays
2021-07-07 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-06-30 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-06-23 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-06-09 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-06-02 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-05-26 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-05-19 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-05-12 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Outdoor Art Workshop - Park Plein Air Urban Landscape Sketching
2021-06-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Let’s celebrate being outdoors with an afternoon of in-person onsite sketching at Bushwick Inlet Park!
We will discuss the basics of a travel art supply kit, framing & composition, simplifying, creating symbols, using color, and more. After a 15 minute lesson, we’ll move to different spots within the park and draw thumbnail sketches before settling on a longer and larger sketch.
The workshop will be led by art instructor and scientific illustrator Monica Schroeder.
Free. Required registration.
*We will meet inside the BIP building at 86 Kent Ave., 11249, and then work our way outside.
Optional supply list – (a basic colored pencil set-up (including paper, clipboard, etc) can be provided).
If you would like to bring your own kit, please include:

5 x 8 paper or sketch book or larger, 140 lb if using watercolors
2B or HB pencil
white or kneaded eraser
pencil sharpener

Optional Additional Supplies:

pencils or watercolor pencils
12- 24 color travel set of Watercolors, brush, paper towel, water, scrap paper, tape
6″ ruler

Summer Music in BIP: Craig Holiday Haynes
2021-06-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
This Summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our first Summer Music in BIP series. As life is starting to look much brighter come take in a skyline river sunset on the shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes.
First up in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America we welcome the Craig Holiday Haynes Quartet.
Acclaimed drummer Craig Holiday Haynes, the son of legendary drummer and three-time Grammy Award winner Roy Haynes, brings his craft to Brooklyn. Named after Billie Holiday, he started playing tenor sax at age 14 in and around NYC with a group called the Fabulous Uniques. Craig later studied African percussion with Chief Bey and seriously switched over to a drum set around his 20th birthday. He’s toured with R&B/ Disco artist “Gary Toms Empire”, Sun Ra (with whom he’s also recorded) and has since played an assortment of great jazz, blues, R&B, and most recently gospel with folks such as Barry Harris, Clifford Jordan, Freddie Hubbard, Gloria Lynne, Lionel Hampton, Tony Bennett, The Boys Choir of Harlem, The Allman Brothers Band, Leslie West, Geri Allen, Marcus Miller, Gladys Knight, Eddie Palmeri, actor Danny Glover (to name a few) and many, many others!
A big thanks goes out to NYC Ferry for their support of this series. We thank New York City Parks & Recreation for their support as well.
Please join us!

Decomposition 101 Mycology Workshop
2021-06-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
As a follow-up to his FBIP webinar, mycology educator Luke Sarrantonio (web – IG) will lead us through a hands-on workshop to discuss and demonstrate fungi’s role as decomposers. Learn how to introduce mushroom mycelium (basically roots of the mushroom) and their many benefits in a garden. The fungus can break down wood chips to release nutrients for plants and produce mushrooms for years to come instead of adding other fertilizers. Fungi are key players in the cycle of life, why not work with them?
Meet by the gardens just beyond the soccer field.
In the event of inclement weather, we will be under the canopy atop of the park building green roof.
Free registration required.

Bushwick Inlet Oyster Monitoring - Spring 2021
2021-06-05 13:00 - 14:30 | Greenpoint Monitor Museum, 56 Quay Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11222
Please join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and our partners from the North Brooklyn Boat Club, Greenpoint Monitor Museum, Billion Oyster Project, and New York Harbor School for the fall monitoring session of our oyster restoration project in Bushwick Inlet. Wear old clothes and plan to get a little dirty!
Free registration required.Space is limited so if you register please attend – or let us know if your plans change and cannot make it.(Important note – please be sure to confirm the appropriate number of tickets on the Eventbrite page as that is how we will be tracking RSVPs.)Thanks to Citizens Committee of NYC for their generous support of this project.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.*

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.

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.
