Open House: Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund Shows off Projects Saturday

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — This weekend the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF) hosts an open house in three locations throughout the neighborhood to show the developments made on the current projects in progress.

GCEF is a fund that was established from a multimillion dollar settlement with ExxonMobil over the company's series of leaks that deposited tens-of-millions-of-gallons of oil underneath the area surrounding Newtown Creek.

GCEF has invested $54 million (with matching funds from grantees) into 46 local projects to date helping to launch projects with the purpose to improve Greenpoint's natural environment, which after more than a century of heavy industrial abuse has made great progress in restoration.

OpenHouseGCEF is Saturday, Oct. 15, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the following locations (all fact sheets are in PDF form):

457 Leonard St. at Manhattan Ave., (behind the McCarren Park pool):

• McCarren Park Urban Farm and Green Infrastructure Corridor (fact available here)
• Soil Cycle: An Urban Composting Initiative (fact sheet available here)
• Greening Greenpoint (fact sheet available here)

McGolrick Park (at the central plaza between Nassau and Driggs Avenues)

• McGolrick Park Restoration (fact sheet available here)
• For the Birds! Greenpoint ( fact sheet available here)
• Greenpoint Parks Community Stewardship Program (fact sheet available here)

Newtown Creek (51 Ash St. at McGuinness Blvd.)

• Environmental Education Shed (fact sheet available here)
• Newtown Creek SAMPLES (fact sheet available here)
• The Living Dock and the Intertidal Wetlands Project (fact sheet available here)
• The Greenpoint Bioremediation Project (fact sheet available here)

Lead image courtesy of GCEF.