Newtown Creek Community Planning Process
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more about participants' memories of the area, and
visions for its future.
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In early February 2000, about fifty
local residents, employees and activists interested in Newtown
Creek assembled in Greenpoint to discuss the past, present
and future of the remarkable industrial waterway. The
discussions elicited a broad cross-section of perspectives,
personal histories and ideas for the surrounding area.
As an outgrowth of this meeting, members
of Place in History, the Queens Department of City Planning
and the New York City Council on the Environment sat down
with several Long Island City residents to discuss the possibility
of developing specific design ideas for the Vernon Boulevard
street end, near the mouth of the Creek.
Then, a small project team,
led by landscape architects Jamie Purinton and Matthew Potteiger,
worked with community representatives and landscape architects
to develop several schematic ideas for the site.
In November 2000, the team presented
its ideas at a community forum on the Creek. In the
wake of the forum, the team refining its plans in accord with
local residents' input, in preparation for implementing them
through a broad-based process involving community members,
non-profit organizations, and city and state government bodies.
Sponsors
Place in History
Queens Department of City Planning
New York City Council on the Environment
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