by Emma Davey It’s been said that good things take time, and nowhere is that adage truer than in Greenpoint. From Bushwick Inlet Park to the McCarren Park pool renovation, our projects for the public good tend to languish in permitting processes, environmental remediation, and even good old-fashioned neighborly disagreements.
The North Brooklyn Community Boathouse building is another such project, first promised to the community in 2011. Though building construction finally topped out in August 2023
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Sign me up Matey! I can’t wait to go sailing on our very own “Love Canal” – the world-famous Newtown Creek EPA designated Superfund site, where every time it rains the overflow at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant triggers the release of fragrant sewage directly into the Creek. The proposed EPA clean-up of the Creek will take decades, but if Trump & his creepy crew have their way it may be never. Yes, the ocean, the sea, the waters hold a timeless allure. However, “The optimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails” – William Arthur Ward.