[Photo courtesy of mikkime/GL Flickr Pool] Ah, McCarren Park lit up at night in the snow. We love you.

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Hipsters of McCarren Park (and rodents, pigeons, etc.), they are watching you like hawks. Literally. A GL reader and occasional contributor sent in a series of photos of one of the hawks that have taken up residence in everyone’s favorite Williamburg-Greenpoint Park. She writes: I would imagine it spooking our dear hipsters but thought it […]

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If you ain’t already dressing up like a monster or heading out to carve a pumpkin or you just want to be a do-gooder on Saturday (10/25), then head on out to to Williamsburg for It’s My Park Day at McCarren Park. There’s more info about the whole day over at United Friends of McCarren […]

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The Williamsburg Kite Festival took place yesterday in McCarren Park. Here’s a photo gallery of the festivities.

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This gorgeous, bright bloom is from McCarren Park in Williamsburg.

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The United Friends of McCarren Park (UFMP) group is having a meeting on Tuesday (4/29) at 7PM about (of course) McCarren Park. Per an email: “We’re a new group with the ambition of serving McCarren Park users, existing community groups and working with other parks groups in the area. With the influx of new park […]

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Yesterday’s protest against Exxon Mobil’s role in helping to sponsor the Earth Day event in McCarren Park, was quite visually interesting and attended by some media and the police. Here are a few photos posted to flickr by amc_. The company’s role was controversial, of course, given the huge spill of oil under Greenpoint that […]

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We’ve posted this before, but Town Square’s Go Green Greenpoint! Earth Day event is taking place tomorrow (4/19) from 11AM-4PM in McCarren Park. Per an email: “Go Green Greenpoint!” is going to be a lot of fun – enviro-friendly vendors, food, music, art contests, recycling stations and much more! School, companies, government agencies and community […]

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This is McCarren Park, as seen from Union Street at Bayard on Tuesday night in a photo sent to us by blogger Bad Advice. The lights were being tested and were left on all night and into yesterday afternoon, but we can report they were turned off at some point last night, possible after a […]

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It’s worth noting again there’s a meeting coming up to organize a new McCarren Park group to help push for a lot of improvements and changes to the park. It takes place at Automotive High School at 50 Bedford Ave. on Monday night at 7PM.–New York Shitty

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We were going to categorize this as an “Upcoming” event, but it’s more than that because the meeting is about forming a group tentatively called United Friends of McCarren Park that will try to build support for and work on a variety of McCarren Park-related issues. An email has gone out from the Greenpoint Waterfront […]

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McCarren Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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The lighting project in McCarren Park has made major progress! The floodlights around the soccer field in McCarren Park, which will light up the night sky outside the expensive condos of Karl Fischer Row on Bayard Street, have been put up. We don’t know if they’ve been turned on yet, but they should be easy […]

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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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The Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, which will have a big role in the future of North Brooklyn’s Parks, including McCarren Park and Pool, will be having a fundraiser at McCarren Pool on September 15. (The group is involved in the McCarren Pool survey that’s currently online.) In any case, Jelly NYC, which produces […]

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Those fences you might have noticed sprouting around the soccer field in McCarren Park? They have nothing to do with the Roebling Oil Field, as one GL reader asked. They’re part of the installation of night lighting for the fields. Now, there’s nothing unique about lighting athletic fields for night play. What makes this endeavor […]

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