AirCasting Greenpoint: Citizen Science for Clean Air HabitatMap, Inc.
This project proposes to implement a community-based Grant Request participatory research project that will: 1) equip $235,388 Greenpoint residents with wearable sensors and
smartphones for recording, mapping, and sharing air Value of Applicant & Partner quality measurements; and 2) provide the Greenpoint Contributions community with innovative ways to visualize and make $893,508 sense of the collected data to reduce air pollution exposures and address community concerns related to Location air pollution, health, and quality of life. Greenpoint
Major activities include:
• surveying Greenpoint residents regarding their air pollution concerns; • training participants in air quality sampling, health tracking, and data analysis;
• conducting a GIS analysis to examine relationships
between air and health;
• performing a policy analysis to identify initiatives for improving air quality in Greenpoint; Independent Review • working with community-based organizations to Committee Score: 73/100 review potential clean air initiatives;
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
• organizing a workshop during which Greenpoint Project Goals participants, trained in air quality sampling and • 20% reduction in exposure to data analysis, can transfer their knowledge and fine particulate air pollution findings to others. for participants;
Inform community action to Personal exposures to air pollution will be reduced via • reduce exposures to air avoidance, once residents are made aware of pollution; and, neighborhood “hot spots”, by behavior change, once participants are made aware of which activities and • Demonstrate how behaviors have the largest negative impact on the community-based research can make substantial quality of the air they are breathing, and by the contributions to scientific community action, once residents are educated as to understanding and public their air quality environment and how this is related to policy. pollution generating activities and the policies which
regulate them. Project Partners
By piloting this state-of-the-art program in Greenpoint • Newtown Creek Alliance and publicizing the community’s findings, AirCasting • Sonoma Technology, Inc. Greenpoint will raise Greenpoint’s profile at the local, • New York University School of state, and national level thereby helping achieve Medicine policies that address community concerns related to air • New York University Robert F. pollution, health, and quality of life. Wagner Graduate School of
Public Service
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF)
The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by
the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation with monies
obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its
Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects that will address the Greenpoint community’s
environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce
Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint proposes a coordinated Grant Request effort to address the structural deficiencies and $569,145 behavioral patterns that have led to Greenpoint’s litter
problem. This project proposes to implement a strategy Value of Applicant & Partner to significantly reduce litter in Greenpoint. Contributions $269,980 Major project activities include: Location an on-the-ground analysis of the community’s litter Greenpoint problem; conducting an education and outreach anti-litter campaign that includes training 15 Greenpoint-based
students to serve as community mentors;
delivering solid waste management and recycling
curriculum at Greenpoint schools; involving businesses by asking them to take a “Clean Greenpoint” pledge; engaging residents in six community litter cleanup days; and using the community litter analysis to work collaboratively with the NYC Department of Independent Review Sanitation to adopt structural improvements, Committee Score: 75/100
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
such as adding more traditional and innovative trash Project Goals receptacles (e.g., solar, three-bin recycling) in high traffic areas of Greenpoint. Install more traditional and innovative trash receptacles The negative impacts of littering are numerous and containers on underserved areas; pervasive. This project seeks to reduce the amount of litter in Greenpoint green spaces, streets and sewers. By Improve neighborhood solid incorporating waste education and outreach in all waste management; and, project phases, Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint will teach Develop both community residents and visitors the importance of proper litter members and visitors as litter disposal to help ensure the neighborhood’s streets stay stewards. clean, and keep reduce litter in Greenpoint’s land and water. Project Partners The project will be conducted in three overlapping NYC Department of phases: Phase 1: a litter assessment of Greenpoint; Phase Sanitation 2: a coordinated education and outreach litter- ClosedLoops reduction campaign; and Phase 3: the implementation of infrastructure improvements. Placemeter Center for Urban Pedagogy
New York University Center for
Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)
The CUSP Open Trash
Observatory
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Neighbors Allied for Good (GCEF) Growth
NYC Community School The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by District 14, including Frances the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Perkins Academy, Department of Environmental Conservation with monies Automotive High School, MS
obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its 126, PS 110, PS 34, and PS 31 Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects
that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and
partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Greening Greenpoint City Parks Foundation
This project proposes to develop and implement a Grant Request comprehensive urban forestry plan for Greenpoint. The $1,950,719 three-year project will increase canopy cover by planting Value of Applicant & Partner new trees and performing maintenance on existing street Contributions and park trees. The environmental and social benefits of $1,958,786 trees are well–documented, and are recognized to restore and protect air, water, and land resources. The Location project will also increase pervious surface area, thereby Greenpoint protecting Greenpoint’s water bodies by reducing combined sewer overflow discharges.
Major project activities include:
• Planting 500 new street and park trees; • Installing 325 tree guards, and planting bulbs and groundcover around street trees; • Removing up to 25,000 sq. ft. of impervious concrete around 675 existing tree beds; and
• Training and equipping tree stewards from
Greenpoint schools and community to elevate the Independent Review level of engagement in long-term tree pruning and Committee Score: 75/100 care
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Additionally, up to 10 high school juniors and seniors from Project Goals Greenpoint will be selected to participate in an urban • Create new tree canopy and community forestry paid internship program. The cover; interns will receive environmental education and hands- • Promote healthy long-lived on training focused on developing their skills in urban trees; forestry and involving field trips and seminars with “working” professionals from environmental and natural • Add one acre of new green resources fields. space overall to Greenpoint; • Treat 787,500 gallons of New and healthier trees will benefit all Greenpoint stormwater annually; residents. The planting and care of trees on the streets • Eliminate 13,000 pounds of and parks, increasing the overall tree “canopy”, and a local air pollution in the community-wide forestry program provides for storing neighborhood; and, and capturing carbon dioxide and other types of air • Train and educate pollution, reducing stormwater pollution, lowering community members to act summer temperatures on streets, and creating wildlife as tree stewards long-term. habitat and adding native plants back into Greenpoint’s Project Partners environment. • Trees New York • City Parks Foundation- Partnership for Parks • MillionTrees NYC
• NYC Department of Parks and
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Recreation-Forestry (GCEF) • Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by the New York State Office of the Attorney General and • Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce Department of Environmental Conservation with monies
obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects
that will address the Greenpoint community’s
environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and
partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
West Street Watershed Stormwater Project Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, Inc.
This project proposes to design and install 54 right-of-way Grant Request bioswales and greenstreets covering 4,845 sq. ft. on the $1,917,717 ten streets that slope toward the East River between
Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street. Value of Applicant & Partner Major project activities include: Contributions $5,030,000 community engagement in site selection and project design; Location site assessments and selection; The area bounded by Franklin design, construction, and planting of bioswales and Street and Manhattan Avenue, greenstreets; and and Green and Calyer Streets performing maintenance of plantings.
The project will result in a substantial decrease in the
volume and frequency of raw sewage releases from the
city’s combined sewer system by installing bioswales and
greenstreet “bulb outs” on sidewalks and streets in the area bounded by Franklin Street and Manhattan Avenue, and Green and Calyer Streets. This green Independent Review infrastructure will capture and treat over 6 million gallons Committee Score: 88/100 of stormwater annually, or 35% of the stormwater from
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
the project area that otherwise would contribute to Project Goals sewer overflows and pollute the East River. Capture and treat 6.4 million Bioswales (sometimes referred to as garden swales) will gallons of stormwater annually be installed on each block in places where they meet and reduce combined sewer overflows; the guidelines for setbacks from buildings, driveways, street trees and other street infrastructure. Garden swales Restore native plants and resemble long tree pits that are intensively planted with habitats; salt tolerant, hardy, and attractive, perennial plants, Improve air quality and native grasses, shrubs, and trees. reduce ambient temperatures; and Greenstreet “bulb outs” will be installed at the Franklin Decrease chronic flooding Street end of all blocks and on Franklin Street itself, in and sewer backups for 10,910 places where they will not conflict with existing street people living in the project trees, hydrants, bus stops, etc. Bulb outs are curb area. extensions that curve out into the roadway to create a Project Partners wider planting area. They provide for enhanced NYC Department of stormwater capture and treatment. Bulb outs will have Transportation the additional benefit of making crossing distances shorter for pedestrians on Franklin Street. NYC Department of
Environmental Protection Bioswales and greenstreets offer benefits beyond NYC Department of Parks and capture and treatment of stormwater. The trees and Recreation other vegetation in them will improve local air quality by Open Space Alliance of North storing and capturing carbon dioxide and other types of Brooklyn air pollution, and will lower ambient temperatures by WE Design reducing the retention and radiation of heat from
paved surfaces. This green infrastructure will also create eDesign Dynamics spaces for the restoration of native plant communities in areas that have become devoid of native flora.
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF)
The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation with monies
obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open,
transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and
partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Greenpoint Business Environmental Stewardship NYS Pollution Prevention Institute @ RIT
This project proposes to assist Greenpoint Grant Request manufacturing companies to take proactive, $402,202
voluntary measures to reduce their environmental
impact on the community. Value of Applicant & Partner Contributions This project will work with local companies to identify $364,601 and implement pollution prevention/environmental improvements for their operations, with a specific Location Greenpoint focus on manufacturing, and help develop solutions
that have long-term positive and sustained environmental benefits to the community.
Major activities will include:
conduct two workshops about “best” environmental manufacturing practices to
integrate into day-day-day operations;
perform a sustainability assessment of the manufacturing processes at 10 companies Independent Review looking for pollution prevention/source Committee Score: 88/100 reduction opportunities;
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
provide participating companies with a Project Goals comprehensive report of findings and Improve air and water quality opportunities for environmental improvement; and energy efficiency; document expected costs of the proposed Reduce toxic pollutants and solutions, and identify sources of funding and hazardous waste associated financial assistance; with manufacturing recruit six companies and help them to make operations; and, changes to their processes that result in Improve the overall environmental improvements; and, environmental footprint of the community by helping conduct three public workshops about the companies implement project, including a project kick-off, interim environmentally beneficial project update, and a final showcase of projects.
environmental results to Greenpoint residents.
Project Partners
Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation (New York State designated
regional Manufacturing
Extension Partnership serving
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Brooklyn) (GCEF) Greenpoint Chamber of
Commerce The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by the New York State Office of the Attorney General Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center and Department of Environmental Conservation with monies obtained through a settlement with St. Nick’s Alliance
ExxonMobil over its Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s Ten Greenpoint goal is to fund projects that will address the manufacturers, including Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities potential participants:
through a process that is open, transparent, and o Jos. H. Lowenstein ensures ongoing engagement and partnership with o The Sarut Group the community. o Grady's Cold Brew o Acme Smoked Fish
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Greenpoint Eco-Schools: Creating a Legacy of Sustainability National Wildlife Federation
This project proposes to implement a comprehensive Grant Request environmental education program in four Greenpoint $1,434,735 schools serving a total of 1,800 students. Funding for this
project will support four full-time “Sustainability Coaches” Value of Applicant & Partner (one in each participating school) who will directly work Contributions with students, teachers, principals, and parents to $10,732,324 increase student knowledge of environmental issues while enhancing academic achievement in science and Location technology. Project partners will provide $10 million in Primarily located within PS31, energy efficiency upgrades, new boilers for heating, PS34, PS110, and MS126, with field trips and community restoration improved lighting, waste collection, and other projects throughout the improvements for Greenpoint schools. These much- Greenpoint community needed improvements will serve as “learning laboratories” for students and teachers to learn about and take action for the environment.
The program is holistic, making connections to all the environmental issues that Greenpoint faces, including Independent Review Energy, Consumption and Waste, School Grounds, Committee Score: 87/100
Biodiversity, Water, Climate Change, Sustainable Food,
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Healthy Living, Transportation, and Healthy Schools. Project Goals Achieve quantifiable Sustainability Coaches would work with teachers, environmental benefits, principals and parents to develop an Eco-Action team including: and an action plan in each school around a variety of o Reducing school waste topics. For example, student teams would audit air by 25% per year; quality at their school and use resulting information to o Reducing school water suggest and implement projects like eliminating toxic use by 5% per year; cleaning chemicals, installing “living walls” inside and o Reducing school energy outside the school, and/or establishing “no-idling zones.” use by 10% per year;
o Other general project activities include: Reducing use of toxic chemicals in schools; and, • rewarding schools for sustainability progress, up to $10,000 per school, per year; o Building school gardens or • providing each school with $5,000 for a ‘community other projects to increase action project’ within the Greenpoint community; green space at schools. • creating a safe social media platform for students and parents to measure environmental actions at Project Partners home; NYC Community School • building off of other GCEF projects to inspire students District 14 including: PS 31, PS to learn about specific environmental initiatives in the 34, PS 110, and MS 126 Greenpoint community; and • conducting three community forums to expand Community Education community-school partnerships. Council 14 The Greenpoint Gazette Overall, the project will seek to develop a well-educated and empowered generation of student leaders and NYC Division of School local residents who are both environmentally aware and Facilities motivated to take action to address problems. NYC Department of Environmental Protection
NYC Department of
Sanitation About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF) NYC School Construction Authority The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by NYC Department of Citywide the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Administrative Services Department of Environmental Conservation with monies Change My World NOW obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and
partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Solar One's Green Design Lab Environmental Education Program CEC Stuyvesant Cove, Inc.
This project proposes to implement an interactive Grant Request environmental education program -- powered by $201,505 student-led greening projects -- serving 1,200 students at
six Greenpoint schools for 15 months. Educators from Value of Applicant & Partner Solar One, a local NYC non-profit, will work directly in the Contributions schools, one day per week, up to four classes per day, $45,000 instructing and co-teaching through hands-on activities. Location
Major activities include: Primarily located at PS 110, PS 34, PS 31, MS 126, Believe Northside delivering a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Charter High School, and Math (STEM)-based curriculum and teacher training Automotive High School on energy, air, and food; conducting a school walk -through to identify areas for reducing electricity use and improving environmental health in school buildings; participating in the Green Design Lab’s Energy
Challenge which offers schools a chance to win Independent Review cash prizes for projects aimed at conserving Committee Score: 76/100 electricity; and installing school-wide sustainability projects to complement the curriculum.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Each Greenpoint school involved in the project will Project Goals participate in the Energy Challenge. Other schools that have participated in the Energy Challenge have reduced Achieve a 7-8% or greater their electricity use by an average of 7-8%, with some average electricity use achiev ing as much as 30% reductions. reduction at each school;
Increase student Approximately 80% of the electricity used in New York City is generated by power stations using fossil fuels, including environmental literacy and critical thinking; and those very close to Greenpoint, in Long Island City and
Astoria. By reducing electricity use, fossil fuel use by nearby Cultivate the next generation power plants is reduced; improving air quality and of environmental stewards. reducing related health risks in Greenpoint.
Each participating school will receive an energy audit and a building walkthrough. Working with students, Solar One Project Partners
educators will assist in identifying areas for reducing NYC Community School
electricity use and improving environmental health in the District 14 including: Believe school building. These recommendations will be forwarded Northside Charter High to the NYC Department of Education for consideration. The School, PS 110, MS 126, PS 34, educators will also help each school design and PS 31 and Automotive High implement a school-wide, student-led sustainability project. School
Through these hands-on activities, the Green Design Lab NYC Department of will inspire students to apply their learning not only to their Education, Division of School classrooms and schools, but also to their homes, and to Facilities change their behavior in ways that improves the health, quality, and sustainability of their school environments, homes, and community.
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF)
The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation with monies obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Greenpoint Community Green Roof Newtown Creek Alliance
This project proposes to install a 40,300 sq. ft. intensive Grant Request $1,229,000 green roof, and conduct educational programming
focused on stormwater management and habitat Value of Applicant & Partner creation. The proposed green roof will be located on the Contributions Automotive High School (AHS) and Frances Perkins $407,007 Academy Building.
Location Major project activities include: Automotive High School and structural analysis of the AHS roof; Frances Perkins Academy, 50 Bedford Ave. designing and installing the green roof;
green roof maintenance training for students and community members; delivering public education about the roof through tours, programs, signs, and social media; and developing a curriculum to support science and technology classes at both schools.
Independent Review A green roof or “living roof” is planted with vegetation Committee Score: 88/100 that uses specialized protection, drainage and irrigation
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
systems placed on top of the existing roof. The green roof Project Goals on AHS will create an expansive permeable surface that Provide habitat for native will be able to retain over 75,000 gallons of stormwater birds and pollinators; annually. It will prevent rain from flowing freely into the Treat 75,000 gallons of combined sewers, which can overflow into Newtown polluted stormwater annually; Creek and the East River when it rains. Capture air pollution;
Green Roof systems have multiple other environmental Reduce the urban heat island effect; and, benefits. The proposed green roof will promote local ecologies by increasing biodiversity, help reduce the Potential heating savings of “urban heat-island effect,” and potentially lower energy up to 145.5 million Btu costs at the school. Additionally, green roofs are a annually. recognized and practiced method of improving water quality in the City of New York's PlaNYC 2030 sustainability initiative. Project Partners Newtown Creek Alliance Finally, the green roof proposed at AHS and Frances Highview Creations Perkins Academy will act as a platform to teach residents and students about urban ecology, natural systems, NYC Community School District 14 including: combined sewer systems, and the importance of green infrastructure in urban environments. o Frances Perkins Academy o Automotive High School
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF)
The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation with monies
obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its
Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects
that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open,
transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and
partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Greenpoint Environmental Education Center at Greenpoint Library Brooklyn Public Library
This project proposes to remodel the existing Greenpoint Grant Request Library as a “Leadership in Energy and Environmental $5,000,000 Design” (LEED) silver certified building, and create a
Greenpoint Environmental Education Center (GEEC) in Value of Applicant & Partner the new second floor and rooftop outdoor classroom. Contributions LEED buildings are designed, constructed, operated, and $6,030,300 maintained based upon sustainability standards related to water and energy efficiency, use of “green” materials Location and resources, and improved indoor environmental 107 Norman Avenue at Leonard Street quality.
The project will design and construct “green” building components, including a green roof and 200 square feet of community composting space. The project will also replace 10,700 square feet of concrete with native plant landscaping and permeable pavers. Further, the project will install energy efficient windows, high efficiency
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning and lighting Independent Review systems, water efficient plumbing systems and fixtures, Committee Score: 85/100 rainwater harvesting and other storm water runoff
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
control systems, eco-friendly interior finishes, furniture and Project Goals furnishings, and alternative energy systems such as solar Create the Greenpoint arrays and wind turbines. Environmental Education Center; Both during and after construction, the library will Remodel the Greenpoint conduct workshops and presentations for Greenpoint Library to achieve LEED Silver schools, community groups, and residents about the Green Building Certification; green building and its environmental benefits. Reduce water and air pollution and energy use The GEEC will be housed in the new second floor of the annually, including treating library and provide an outdoor classroom on the rooftop. 70,000 gallons of storm water, The GEEC will provide more than 300 educational removing 33,600 pounds of air programs per year to promote environmental awareness pollutants, and reducing and stewardship, supplemented by a standing collection water use by 50,000 gallons and heating and cooling use of environmental resources including materials about by 80%; and, Greenpoint and Newtown Creek. Create new open space for The remodeled Greenpoint Library will serve as a hub for public use. community-based environmental programs, exhibits, and Project Partners information in partnership with local environmental Newtown Creek Alliance groups, Greenpoint schools, and residents. Meeting space will be available for use by community Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and organizations. Planning
Neighbors Allied for Good About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Growth (GCEF) North Brooklyn Boat Club
The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by NYC School District 14: Francis
the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Perkins Academy, MS126,
Department of Environmental Conservation with monies Automotive High School, PS31, PS34, and PS110 obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects Friends of Brooklyn Public that will address the Greenpoint community’s Library – Greenpoint Branch environmental priorities through a process that is open, SolarOne transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and partnership with the community. City University of New York,
Center for Urban
Environmental Reform
Town Square
Community Board One
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Box Street Park Construction: Enhancing Greenpoint's Recreation NYC Department of Parks and Recreation
This project proposes to support the design and Grant Request development of a new 2.81 acre city park to be $1,999,000
constructed on Box Street on the Newtown Creek waterfront. Value of Applicant & Partner Contributions Major project activities include: $1,999,000
• remediating soil, and potentially groundwater, Location contamination; 65 Commercial Street • stabilizing the shoreline and repairing degraded shoreline infrastructure; • installing green infrastructure, such as bioretention areas, to treat polluted stormwater;
• elevating the lower portion of the park to keep
flood waters away from its upland section and the
adjacent neighborhood; and • creating a partnership with local schools and youth groups to explore the ecosystem of the East River and the surrounding park. Independent Review Committee Score: 71/100
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Box Street Park has been planned since 2005, and City of Project Goals New York agencies are working to relocate the site’s • Remediate and develop a current occupants -- a Metropolitan Transit Authority 2.81 acre park; (MTA) Para-Transit vehicle storage facility and an MTA • Provide 265 feet of waterfront Emergency Response Unit. The initial design work for the access along Newtown Park is fully funded and the requested GCEF grant will Creek; support funding to enhance the design and for • Enhance the usability of the construction of the Park. waterfront with active and passive uses; Improvements to the park may include, but will not be • limited to: provision of active recreational spaces, such Improve coastal resiliency; as a multipurpose field, smaller practice fields, and lawn • Reduce impacts from storms; spaces, a dog run, and passive recreational spaces such • Capture and treat polluted as landscaped pathways with sitting areas, and an stormwater.
esplanade connecting the waterfront to the park, providing views of Newtown Creek and the East River. Project Partners
• Open Space Alliance for
North Brooklyn
• NYC Economic Development Corporation
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF)
The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by
the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation with monies obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its
Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects
that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and
partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Greenpoint's Southern-Most Park: Remediation and Development NYC Department of Parks and Recreation
This project proposes to remediate environmental Grant Request
contaminants, stabilize eroding shoreline, and repair $3,000,000
shoreline infrastructure in order to add another 7.5 acres to the development of a new city park on Bushwick Inlet. Value of Applicant & Partner Contributions
$6,000,000 Major project activities include:
Location • remediating soil, and potentially groundwater, 1 Franklin Street contamination; • developing a design for the park addition with substantial community input; • stabilizing existing shoreline, creating new
shoreline, and repairing shoreline infrastructure;
• developing the parcel using a soft edge and
green upland to address flooding and stormwater control; and • creating a partnership with local schools and youth groups to explore the ecosystem of the East Independent Review River and the surrounding park. Committee Score: 77/100
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Project Goals Primarily, this project will advance long-held community open space goals for Greenpoint, although it will also • Complete remediation and benefit the environment by: development of 2,080 linear feet of waterfront along the East River. • Permanently shielding the site from development pressures by acquiring and protecting the site as • Increase the available parkland; neighborhood open space, • Increasing the available neighborhood open waterfront and on-the-water access by approximately 2.5 space and waterfront access by approximately acres of land and 2.5 acres of land and approximately 5 acres of approximately five acres of open water; open water. • Improving public health with the addition of • Make the shoreline of recreation opportunities; Greenpoint more ready to • Allowing for waterfront habitat restoration, buffer against future storms, including enhancing habitat for over 75 species of treat polluted stormwater, local and migratory birds; and enhance habitat for • Allowing for the remediation of vacant local and migratory birds.
underutilized waterfront land.
The project will provide high-quality open space, with Project Partners 2,080 feet of shore frontage and will bring approximately • 13,100 more Greenpoint residents to within a 10-minute Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn walk of a park. • NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF)
The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by the
New York State Office of the Attorney General and
Department of Environmental Conservation with monies
obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its
Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects that
will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Grow Greenpoint Project GrowNYC
This project proposes to build a comprehensive Grant Request educational and greening network, using McCarren Park $450,000 to engage students and community members in
environmental stewardship of the land, through the Value of Applicant & Partner hands-on experience of gardening. Contributions $287,500 Major project activities include: Location building a 7,200 sq. ft. demonstration garden in McCarren Park McCarren Park modeled after a typical Greenpoint backyard, coupled with community and school workshops using the site to teach about green infrastructure and gardening techniques for backyards, rooftops, and community spaces;
creating a 5,200 sq. ft. walking garden and green
infrastructure corridor in McCarren Park using
bioswales to demonstrate how pollution is removed from stormwater.; and providing opportunities for community members to Independent Review volunteer at the McCarren Park to help maintain the Committee Score: 80/100 demonstration and walking gardens and develop in- depth skills in this type of innovative gardening.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
The demonstration garden, and walking garden and Project Goals green infrastructure corridor, will have large multi-lingual signs providing information on urban environmental Treat 252,000 gallons of sustainability, stewardship, conservation, and urban storm water; gardening. This information will address the risks of Create new “green” areas; Promote the greening of contaminated soil and the benefits of raised beds, how privately-owned spaces; to build a simple raised bed, what variety of plants do and, well in certain conditions and times of the years, and the Provide new community pros and cons of using a roof space for gardening. meeting space.
The green infrastructure will capture and treat a Project Partners significant percentage of the stormwater that falls at the Open Space Alliance for Park. Bioswales (sometimes referred to as garden North Brooklyn swales) resemble long tree pits that are intensively NYC Department of Parks planted with salt tolerant, hardy, and attractive, and Recreation-Green perennials, native grasses, shrubs, and trees. Thumb
The bioswales and green infrastructure provide many Local, interested Greenpoint community other neighborhood benefits including storing and gardeners, homeowners capturing carbon dioxide and other types of air and backyard renters. pollution, helping to lower summer temperatures in the park, and creating wildlife habitat.
About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF)
The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by
the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation with monies obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects
that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Intertidal Wetland Project Research Foundation of CUNY (LaGuardia Community College)
This project proposes to assess degraded shoreline sites Grant Request along Newtown Creek currently comprised of rip-rap and $130,178
eroded bulkheads for their potential for greening using “constructed” wetland habitat. Value of Applicant & Partner Contributions $130,911 Major project activities include:
Location • creating conceptual designs in collaboration with Greenpoint shoreline the community and professional contractors for intertidal wetland construction at two shoreline sites; • advancing one of the two sites to a fully engineered design, including construction
drawings, cost estimates, and permits;
• installing “soft” salt marsh habitat areas along the
walls of existing “hard” bulkheads; and
• expanding marsh habitat units already installed on bulkhead walls at existing sites. Independent Review Committee Score: 76/100
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.
Salt marsh wetlands were the natural shoreline habitat of Project Goals Newtown Creek. It is estimated that Newtown Creek • Increase the number and once had nearly 1200 acres of tidal wetland along its extent of intertidal salt marsh banks. The salt marsh and tributaries that once areas on Newtown Creek to constituted this rich estuarine ecosystem have been provide habitat for native severely degraded by fill and development. birds, small fish, clams, crabs, and other wildlife; and
• Improve water quality by The constructed wetland proposed in this project will restoring “ecological improve the water quality of Newtown Creek. The services” like the filtering sheltered environment of these wetlands, however, will pollutants in waterways by bi- provide many additional environmental benefits. They valves (ribbed mussels, blue will provide refuge for small fish and vertebrates. mussels etc.) which will live in Accumulated sediment in them will provide habitat for constructed wetland habitat. worms, clams, snails, fiddler crabs and amphipods, which will serve as food for larger crabs and fish. Additionally, wading birds, such as herons and egrets, are attracted to Project Partners the invertebrate life of the low salt marsh, and • LaGuardia Community sandpipers, ducks, geese and cormorants are drawn to College the salt marsh. • NYC Department of
Environmental Protection
• Newtown Creek Alliance
• North Brooklyn Boat Club About the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF) • Outside New York • City Parks Foundation The GCEF is a $19.5 million grant program created by
the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation with monies obtained through a settlement with ExxonMobil over its Greenpoint oil spill. The GCEF’s goal is to fund projects
that will address the Greenpoint community’s environmental priorities through a process that is open, transparent, and ensures ongoing engagement and partnership with the community.
The Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund is a joint program of the New York State Office of the Attorney General and Department of Environmental Conservation.