Parks & open spaces

• McCarren Park Kite Festival Recap

  billburg / May 19, 2008 03:36pm

  Anyone interested in viewing the McCarren Park Kite Festival recap should head over to flickr and check out this photo set, courtesy of newyorkshitty.com's Miss Heather. 

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• Heard there was a protest.

  billburg / Apr 22, 2008 02:40pm

  Activists held a protest of Exxon's financial involvement in McCarren Parks' Earth Day yesterday.  The organizers of the event weren't too happy.

  Read more here.

   

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• Rooftop garden at Studio B may be stalled

  billburg / Apr 17, 2008 10:23am

  It appears that the plans for the rooftop garden at Studio B isn't approved by the Department of Buildings. 

  New York Shitty had this to say:

  Plans were filed March 31 of this year. They were disapproved.  Plans to change second floor occupancy and join its new "eating and drinking establishment" with the first floor establishment. Are you following >

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• PUSH FOR PARKS! 4/17

  billburg / Apr 16, 2008 10:15am

  Do you hear about all these plans for more greenspaces in Williamsburg and want to know more about it?  Here's your first stop in becoming informed and possibly involved.  Go to the PUSH FOR PARKS meeting sponsered by GWAPP.

  Find out the latest on Bushwick Inlet Park, India St End Park, Million Tree Project, Barge Park, McCarren Park, Brooklyn >

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• Greenpoint's Transmitter Park plans

  billburg / Apr 15, 2008 02:22pm

  Groundbreaking for the new park is planned for 2009 with a pricetag of 10 - 12 million dollars.  It is expected to take 1.5 years to build it all, complete with pier & bird gardens.

  Read more about the meeting highlights here.

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• Bikes in the Greenway!

  billburg / Apr 15, 2008 02:08pm

  Doesn't everyone in Williamsburg love bikes?  Thankfully, so does Community Board 1, at least by looking at the recent 39 - 2 vote that places a bike lane instead of parking spots.

  According to Streetsblog

  Two other community boards had to vote on the greenway, but parking was only affected in the CB1 district. To defuse the expected opposition, >

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• Glass bottles on beaches!

  billburg / Apr 15, 2008 01:14pm

  On Friday, April 18, 10:00 AM at the Committee Room in City hall, the City Council's Parks & Recreations subcommittee have on the floor a Local Law to amend the administrative code of the City of New York in relation to prohibiting objects containing glass packaging or containers on or within 150 feet of a beach owned by the City >

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• TransGas Victory Party This Weekend

  billburg / Apr 10, 2008 10:28am

  Those who follow news of the Williamsburg waterfront will know that the big proposed TransGas power plant on the Bushwick Inlet was dealt a fairly decisive blow in Albany a couple of weeks ago. (TransGas will likely appeal, but has little chance of success, even though delays could interfere with plans to use the property for the 28-acre Bushwick Inlet >

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• Bushwick Inlet Park renderings

  billburg / Apr 10, 2008 10:26am

  Gowanus Lounge and Curbed have published renderings of the planned Bushwick Inlet Park on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront, which the Parks Dept. says it's going to start working on this fall. The drawings are for the first phase of the project, between North 9th and 10th streets, which will involve a multi-purpose athletic field that Parks wants to finish by next >

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• Grand Ferry Park will reopen late April

  billburg / Apr 10, 2008 10:08am

  Weather permitting, one of our favorite Northside Williamsburg haunts - Grand Ferry Park - will reopen in late April, according to the NYC Parks Department.

  The tiny waterfront park at the foot of Grand Street on the East River has been fenced off since mid-October for a half-million dollar capital improvement project.

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