There will be a meeting tomorrow Monday (12/8) at 7pm for Friends of the Bushwick Inlet Park at the Greenpoint Reformed Church (136 Milton St. b/w Manhattan & Franklin Aves) to discuss the (promised, maybe, someday) Bushwick Inlet Park. The 28-acre park will run between Kent Avenue and the East River, starting at N. 9th […]

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There’s a meeting coming up for Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park on Monday, June 9. One of the pitches in the email we saw is that people are trying to organize so that planning for a concert space to replace McCarren Pool will be part of the Bushwick Inlet Park discussion. Per the email: “This […]

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Will Bushwick Inlet Park, the 28-acre park planned for land north of East River State Park in Williamsburg & Greenpoint around the Bushwick Inlet, happen? Putting the land together for the park and securing all the funding is a complicated issue. GWAPP (Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning) has been working to do some […]

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This is a rendering of what the Parks Department calls Phase I of the 28-acre Bushwick Inlet Park that will (at some point) create a vast new area of open and recreational space on the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfronts. Work on the soccer field will start this fall. Phase 1 involves the southernmost portion of […]

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For those who think the proposal to create a park at the Bushwick Inlet in Williamsburg and Greenpoint is a new idea, think again. The idea was first floated by a Member of Congress. In 1896. Also, check out the cool pics of the inlet at night.–INSIJS

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The Parks Department showed its preliminary Master Plan for a 25-acre Bushwick Inlet Park in Greenpoint and Williamsburg to Community Board 1 last week. The ambitious plan would involve acquiring waterfront land from five private owners, including a parcel that was once the proposed site of a highly controversial power plant. The plan would include […]

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There’s a Friends of Williamsburg Waterfront Park Meeting coming up on Thursday, May 29, at 7PM at the People’s Fire House, which is located at 113 Berry Street. “On the agenda will be an update about the plans for the Bushwick Inlet and an opportunity to explore ideas on how to organize the Friends Group.” […]

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There’s no end in sight to the redevelopment of the Sunset Park Bush Terminal Piers into a new, multi-use 23-acre, $36 million public park. Two years after it was announced with great fanfare, the project has yet to enter remediation, the first phase of development that deals with the removal of pollutants or contamination from […]

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There will be a Push for Parks status meeting in Greenpoint tomorrow (4/17). It is sponsored by the Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning (GWAPP). It will include updates on Million Tree Project, Barge Park, Cooper Park, India Street End, Greenpoint Ave/Transmitter Park, UFMP (United Friends of McCarren Park), Bushwick Inlet Park, Brooklyn Greenway, […]

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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 […]

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The big TransGas power plant proposed for a waterfront site between N. 12 & N. 14 Street in Williamsburg/Greenpoint is finally dead. The state Siting Board on Major Electric Generation Siting and the Environment rejected a proposal today to locate an 1,100 megawatt underground plant on the site. The plant had actually been killed in […]

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If you thought the proposal for a big underground power plant in Williamsburg that would be built by Transgas at the Bushwick Inlet was killed in 2006, you’re wrong. If you thought it died in 2007, well, you’re wrong again. The Power Plant with Nine Lives is still technically alive, and there is yet another […]

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There’s another showing of the plans for McCarren Pool tonight (and, hopefully, the Parks Department and the architects will also soon release some high-quality renderings of its plans so that everyone in Brooklyn can see them). As we noted last week, McCarren Pool is being returned to service as a pool, so the days of […]

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We’ve posted before about the “Town Hall” meeting sponsored by the Greenpoint Waterfront Assocation for Parks & Planning at Warsaw on January 17 at 7PM (261 Driggs Ave.). But, it’s important enough to note again. (There’s a small article in Metro today about it as well.) Here’s a bit from the original email announcing it: […]

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There’s going to be a “Town Hall” meeting sponsored by the Greenpoint Waterfront Assocation for Parks & Planning at Warsaw on January 17 at 7PM (261 Driggs Ave.). The email we got says: The neighborhoods of Greenpoint/Williamsburg are at a point of crisis and opportunity. Crisis because rampant development threatens what little open space and […]

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We took a look back at 2007 on Friday, now here is a look ahead at some stories that we think will make news or that will keep making news in 2008: 1) Coney Island. If the city is committed to it audacious Coney strategy–rezoning, buying out developer Joe Sitt in the amusement district and/or […]

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The city still hasn’t reached a deal with the group that has the site of the Monitor Museum at the Bushwick Inlet, where it is planning a big park. The property owners–who got the land via donation for a museum commemorating the building of the historic vessel–say the city isn’t negotiating in good faith and […]

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The fascinating issue of the major expansion of waterfront parkland the city proposes in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, stretching from the northern end of East River State Park to north of the Bushwick Inlet, has been a sleeper. The city recently acquired major parcels for the planned 28-acre park via eminent domain and is now negotiating […]

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The Astral Oil Works, which was founded by Charles Pratt (yes, the Pratt Institute Pratt) once sat, roughly, where the Bayside Oil facility near the Bushwick Inlet is today. It is said to have possibly spilled a lot of oil under Williamsburg. One theory holds that some of the oil being found today under the […]

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Call us weird, but we look for signs of oil in development sites in Williamsburg and train our noses too. Yesterday, someone left a comment about a smell of oil so strong on N. 5th Street near Bedford Avenue this weekend that the Fire Department was called. It’s worth noting, as it’s not the first […]

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We have always believed that the oil oozing from the ground at the Roebling Oil Field at N. 11th Street and Roebling in Williamsburg was emanating from a ruptured tank nearby that can be found on environmental maps of the neighborhood. Workers have also noted digging up an oil tank on the site. Yet, the […]

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The rendering above, if you didn’t catch it yesterday on Daily Intel, is of the New Look Greenpoint-Williamsburg waterfont. This vision was presented by the city this week and has gotten relatively good reviews, apparently, from local groups, according to DI. Apparently, developers of three projects turned the open space over to the city, which […]

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In the spirit of looking back at the year that was, we present a very selective and subjective list of some of what we identify as the best and worst of 2006: The Gowanus Lounge Top Bottom Ten1) Bruce Ratner. Speaks for itself.2) Joe Sitt/Thor Equities. Wouldn’t have even made the list in May, but […]

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All this time, we thought that proposed power TransGas Energy power plant at the Bushwick Inlet in Williamsburg was dead. It’s not. One could be excused for thinking otherwise, what the city looking to build a park near the site (and on the north shore of the Bushwick Inlet too) and with luxury highrise condos […]

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Brooklinks is a daily selection of Brooklyn-related articles, blog items and images, except the photo above, which is last night’s sunset over the Atlantic Ocean, captured at a location somewhat distant from our favorite borough. Images: Closing After 25 Years [Frank Lynch/flickr] Elbow-Toe and a Door [justiNYC] Waterfront Living [i’mjustsayin/flickr] Old Bay Ridge [Sunset Parker] […]

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