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NCA is a community-based organization working to restore, reveal, and revitalize Newtown Creek.

06/08/2026

Interested in the wildlife of Newtown Creek? Come out to our event next Thursday on August 13 to meet & learn about the wild animals who call Newtown Creek home, engage with the Creek Cart, and learn about the amazing fieldwork our cohort has been working on all summer long. 🌱🐟

Refreshments and veggies hot off the grill will be provided. 🌽🍅 All are welcome!

Thank you to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Office of Environmental Justice for funding this program!

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06/08/2026

Thank you to all who joined us for the 10th Annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival on Saturday! With nearly 1,000 attendees, this year’s event was another blooming success.

The partners Kingsland Wildflowers Broadway Stages Newtown Creek Alliance Noosphere Arts Marni Majorelle share our deepest thanks to our community for spending the beautiful day with us exploring the green roofs, meeting community orgs, listening to live music, getting inspired by dance and art performances, and learning about the native ecology of NYC!

See you again next summer!

04/08/2026

NCA is expanding our team and hiring two full time positions:

🌲 Restoration Manager
📢 Community Engagement Coordinator

Application Deadline: August 31, 2026
Start Date: September 21, 2026

More details about the positions and how to apply here:
https://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/jobs-internships/

29/07/2026

Look at what we found in the Creek! 🔦🐟

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Creek for Critters After Dark on Friday! We had a wonderful time introducing residents to the many animals who call Newtown Creek home. Keep an eye out for the Creek Cart as it continues its journey around the watershed.

Critters featured include: American eel, oyster toadfish, jellyfish, grass shrimp, mummichogs, eastern mud snails, and crabs!

And a very special thank you to Wild Resonance for giving us an inside listen to oyster toadish croaks and the audio soundscape of Newtown Creek! Please check out their incredible podcast all about the beautiful and wonder in the sounds of the natural world.

28/07/2026

Join us Creekside on Thursday, August 13, at Kingsland Wildflowers for a celebratory and educational evening with our summer TIDALS Fellows! Meet & learn about the wild animals who call Newtown Creek home, engage with the Creek Cart, and learn about the amazing fieldwork our cohort has been working on all summer long. 🌱🐟

Refreshments and veggies hot off the grill will be provided. 🌽🍅All are welcome!

RSVP in bio 🔗

27/07/2026

🚨 Wildlife Alert 🚨

Over the weekend Joseph Hach captured this amazing video of a school of rays swimming in Newtown Creek.

Species wise they look like cownose rays, which are native to the area and feed primarily on crustaceans and shellfish — guess they heard about some of our mussel restoration projects :)

Fun fact: a group of rays is called a fever. It is definitely the first we have seen in/around Newtown Creek.

Riverkeeper Billion Oyster Project Hunters Point Park Conservancy NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program New York State Department of Environmental Conservation NYC Water Waterfront Alliance Queens Community Board 2 greenpointers North Brooklyn Community Boathouse Hunters Point Park Conservancy QNS.com TF CORNERSTONE

23/07/2026

Meet the Creek Cart! 🚲🐟

This summer, NCA staff and our TIDALS Fellows refurbished an old cargo bike, transforming it into a mobile environmental education station.

Newtown Creek is often difficult to get to, and it’s even harder to spot the critters who live in it. The Cart brings the Creek to neighborhoods around the watershed. Starting this month, you’ll spot the Creek Cart popping up at parks in Brooklyn and Queens, like McGolrick Park and the Oval at Hunter’s Point South Park.
You can find the Cart at NCA events this summer — starting tomorrow at Critters After Dark at the Queens Landing Boathouse in LIC! Then in Greenpoint for the Kingsland Wildflowers Festival on August 1 and the TIDALS Fellowship Wrap-Up & Research Shareout on August 13. Come say hi and meet your underwater neighbors! 🦀

22/07/2026

Last-Mile Facilities are popping up across NYC and creating significant environmental harms.

As e-commerce continues to grow, neighborhoods around Newtown Creek are bearing the brunt of unregulated last-mile warehouses. These facilities have an outsized impact on air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, and noise pollution compared to traditional warehouses due to higher volumes of product flow, larger square footage needed to house inventory, and 24/7 operations.

NCA is a proud member of the Last-Mile Coalition, working to directly address the environmental justice harms that stem from the unregulated rapid expansion of these mega facilities.

Visit newtowncreekalliance.org/last-mile-facilities and lastmilecoalition.org to learn more.

Video by 7Cinema

17/07/2026

Fish Trap Check! 🐟

This summer, our TIDALS fellows are running a general fish survey on the creek, checking traps weekly, and recording what they find.

Thank you to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Office of Environmental Justice for funding this program!

15/07/2026

🚨🚨 Important Water Quality Meeting Next Week!

NYS DEC has announced a draft reclassification of water quality standards for Newtown Creek. This process may lead to actual environmental improvements, or just higher standards in name alone with carved out exemptions that allow for sewage overflow for decades to come.

This upcoming public meeting will allow community members the opportunity to ask questions directly to the State and City about this classification process and advocate for a cleaner sewage-free Creek in the future.

Join us:
Wednesday July 22
6 to 7:30pm
LaGuardia Community College
31-10 Thomson Avenue

Registration link here:
https://dec.ny.gov/get-involved/events/2026/7/community-availability-session-in-advance-of-newtown-creek-reclassification-rulemaking

Address

520 Kingsland Ave

11222

Website

http://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/, https://linktr.ee/newtowncreek

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