Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Benefit Tomorrow

The Brooklyn Greenway Initiative is holding a fundraising benefit event on the “beach” at the new East River State Park in Williamsburg tomorrow (6/28). The Greeway is the wonderful new waterfront linear park that would run from Greenpoint to Red Hook. It is at a fairly advanced stage of planning, but still faces hurdles as the task of assembling land from a myriad of property owners and gaining approvals from multiple public entities is a complicated one. In any case, the fund raiser will feature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and music. Streets Blog, which has worked hard to get out information about the Greenway projects says of the event:

If you are not already involved in the Greenway, this is a great chance to get in on the ground floor of shaping the future of Brooklyn’s waterfront and, in the process, creating a more livable city.

Tickets are not inexpensive as this is a fundraising event, but you can buy tickets online here, and the after-party from 8:30-10:30 is $25. The fundraiser itself runs from 6:30-8:30 and those tickets include the after-party. You can check out Streets Blog’s item about the event by clicking here and you can visit the Greenway site by clicking here.

Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Meeting Tomorrow Night

There’s a planning workshop for the Greenpoint and Williamsburg portion of the Brooklyn Greenway coming up tomorrow night (5/24). It starts at 6PM and will take place at the Brooklyn Brewery at 79 North 11th St. The meeting is described as follows:

Join residents and organizations of Greenpoint and Williamsburg to help shape the plan for the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway. Many elements of the greenway are provided for in the Parks Department’s Waterfront Master Plan for Greenpoint-Williamsburg. This workshop will consider those elements which are not yet programmed.

Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and Regional Plan Association will provide background information and studies to support the discussion of planning options. Participants will break into groups with maps, aerial photographs and diagrams to brainstorm, explore possibilities and achieve consensus on route location, configuration, design features and user facilities.

You can check out the Brooklyn Greenway website for more information about the meeting and about the project, which is coming along quite nicely, given the large number of private and public land that involved in creating the greenway. (If you pick up a copy of the User’s Guide to the Brooklyn Greenway, GL contributed a couple of the photos, of the Gowanus and of Newtown Creek, naturally.) There’s apparently a free beer tasting after the workshop, if that’s an incentive.

Tour the New Brooklyn Greenway Route

The fact that much of the property for the proposed Brooklyn Greenway has been acquired is a small miracle in and of itself, given the number of owners, agencies and entities involved. The good people at Streets Blog and Streets Films took a tour of the proposed route this weekend and have produced a vid. Do take a look.