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Hi Everyone, I was able to arrange for our tour to begin at 2:30. Please do try to be timely. The address is 329 Greenpoint Avenue in Brooklyn, 11222. The best way to get there is to take the G train to Greenpoint Avenue and then walk east down Greenpoint […]

Visit to Newtown Creek on 10/13

As early as the mid-1800s, beautiful hotels and bathhouses had sprung up on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in the Coney Island area, attracting many affluent New Yorkers. After the first roller coaster was introduced in 1884, Coney Island had become the amusement capital of the world by the […]

Hopes for Restoration of Coney Island

             1. HISTORY Alphabet City is far from a city as it is located within the East Village area and is also in the southeastern corner of NYC. Nevertheless, the name of “Alphabet City” came from the fact that it encompasses Avenues A, B, C and D which also happen to be the […]

The ABCD’s of Alphabet City/Loisaida

The 1870s: it all started with a tiny wooden pier that peaked out of the borough of Brooklyn into the grand Atlantic Ocean. Steamboats tugged on by it without a word. Some stopped by to hang their feet over the end into the salty waters below. It was a quiet […]

Life’s a Beach at Brighton Beach

Newtown Creek is a part of the Hudson Estuary, flowing west between Queens and Brooklyn and emptying into the East River. Since its purchase in 1638, the land surrounding the creek had always been favorable because farmers preferred to use it to transport their produce and because of its proximity to […]

Revealing, Restoring and Revitalizing Newtown Creek

Coney Island is a historic residential neighborhood, beach, and entertainment destination at the very tip of Southern Brooklyn. Formerly, Coney Island was an outer barrier island that was partially connected to mainland Brooklyn by Coney Island Creek and partial tidal mudflats. Over the years, it has developed from a wasteland […]

Coney Island’s Troubles

The Rockaways in Queens, New York is a peninsula well known for its beautiful beaches, long boardwalk, and welcoming residents.

The Rockaways- Life After Sandy

History Alphabet City, named after the fact that it encompasses  Avenues A, B, C and D, began as a massive salt marsh. After it was drained in the 19th Century, real estate developers began building apartments and a large German community appeared. It was even known as “Little Germany” by […]

Alphabet City: An Environmental and Public Health Study

History of College Point The earliest known people to have settled in College Point, New York, are the Matinecock Indians, a woodland Indian tribe that was a part of the Algonquin Nation. For about 200 years, College Point was pretty much isolated, until the arrival of Conrad Poppenhusen in 1854. Conrad […]

Delving into the Environmental Issues of College Point

  Coney Island is a mixture of a residential neighborhood, beach, and entertainment attraction located on the Southwestern area of Brooklyn. The total area of the land is 442 acres- 4 miles long and .5 miles wide. Its population, as recorded in 2010, stands at 24,711 people; the population density, on […]

Coney Island Beyond Amusement

History Red Hook was originally settled by the Dutch in 1636, making it one of the earliest established areas in Brooklyn. By the 1850’s Red Hook was one of the busiest ports in the United States and quickly became known for its bustling maritime-based economy. The neighborhood initiated a housing […]

Red Hooks Environmental and Wellness Issues

History Central Harlem has the largest population of African Americans in the United States due to the Great Migration of the early 20th century. In the 1920s and the 1930s, the Harlem Renaissance ensued as writers and artists traveled to this neighborhood and established this revolutionary creative movement. Soon, the […]

Central Harlem: Dreaming of a New Renaissance

HOWARD BEACH  Howard Beach is an upper middle class neighborhood in the southwestern part of Queens, founded in 1897.This area is composed of little neighborhoods, which borders the Belt Parkway and Cross Bay Boulevard. Howard Beach is mostly composed of an Italian population. When Hurricane Sandy attacked, Howard Beach was […]

The struggle to get a community back

  Battery Park City is a neighborhood located adjacent to Tribeca bounded by the left side of the West Side Highway and the Hudson River. It is a relatively new neighborhood that was built from scratch, as the idea for the neighborhood was first conceived in the 1950s, with the first […]

The Land Of The Parks And The Home Of The ...

Roosevelt Island, a small, yet developing Island located between Manhattan and Queens is separated by the fast flowing waters of the East River. Its population density is 8,374 people per square mile. In the past 10 years, the overall population has grown by 20%, and growing, leading to an even […]

Roosevelt Island: A Tale of Two Cities (Environmentally)

Rockaway Beach in “Sewer… You Hardly Knew Her!” Rockaway Beach, when entering from Broad Channel, has always had a distinct quality about it: the smell.  That’s because when you exit the ramp you immediately come across one of the 14 sewage treatment facilities throughout the city of New York.  In […]

Rockaway Beach: Troubling Woes by the Sandy Sho’s

At only two miles long and eight-hundred feet across at its widest point, Roosevelt Island seems rather unassuming on paper. Though the Island, which is nestled neatly in the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, may seem diminutive in size, it is tremendous in historical, social, and ecological […]

The River and the Ruins: Roosevelt Island’s Past and Future

History of Sheepshead Bay Originally settled in 1643 by Lady Moody, the only woman to pioneer settlement in colonial America, Sheepshead Bay remained in the hands of the Canarsie Indians for decades afterwards. Settlers usually avoided the land because it was mostly swamp, and had little promise for development. For […]

The Numerous Issues of Sheepshead Bay (Community Board 15)

History Wall Street (or at least, the whole geographic area we now know as the Financial District) has been a hub of commerce as early as the 1600’s. It was originally a Dutch colony that was utilized mainly for the slave trade as early as 1626-it even became New York’s […]

Downtown/Wall Street “Beats” Urban Dilemmas

  Simha Gulkarov   Data on College Point: Area: 2.344 square miles Population: 22,159 Population density: 9,452 people per square mile Zone: 7 Frequency of Trash: Depends on the letter area within the zone; 3 different set of days- Monday-Thursday, Tuesday- Friday, Wednesday-Saturday. Recycling is done on 3 different days covering 3 different areas: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. […]

College Point- Environmental & Public Health Issues