Hello Go-Greeners!

Our community's spilling over with enthusiasm and energy!  Earlier this month, the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF) held their 2nd annual Open House in McGolrick Park, bringing together organizers, volunteers, and community members (including our very own Go Green Brooklyn Hub) -- and plenty of them had something to say!  

We're always looking forward to the future of our neighborhood in more ways than one with local enviro advocacy group NAG's annual gala party and fundraiser.  We also love all the Halloween themed events including a night walk in McGolrick Park to see bats, Night of 1,000 Jack O'Lanterns, dog costumed party, an outdoors screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, haunted boat tours, Greenpoint's annual Halloween Children's Parade and even a haunted garden.  And while you're out and about, please be alert and mindful; Landon Biehl has penned a piece about pedestrian safety. 

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Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund showcases progress in second annual Open HouseCEF Projects

Reprinted from our friends at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (By Andy Katz | October 16, 2017).
By late afternoon at Monsignor McGolrick Park on Oct. 14, people were packing up displays, folding charts, placing live organic samples carefully into transport containers, wiping down binoculars, stacking trays of plants, upending long tables and folding their legs in. NYPD Captain Victoria Perry...

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Brooklyn Pedestrians “Going Green”: How Safe Are They?
By Landon Biehl 

One of the easiest ways to “Go Green” has always been bicycling and walking whenever possible. Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Brooklyn, in general, are very pedestrian-centric but not always pedestrian-friendly. Year after year we hear of fellow Brooklyn residents, and even New York tourists, who are injured or killed after being struck by...

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~ Events ~

Masked Marvelous Cocktail Party

Show your support and have some fun too! Join Material for the Arts (MFTA) for a fun filled evening of food, drink, and entertainment at their fabulous warehouse in Long Island City....

Night of 1,000 Jack O’Lanterns – NYC

New York City’s newest and most anticipated event, Night of 1,000 Jack O’Lanterns is ready to light up New York Harbor this October! Come see more than 1,000 illuminated jack o’lanterns carved by artists from around the tri-state area and staged along a festive, paved, tree-lined pathway among the backdrop of centuries old buildings in the heart of the Big Pumpkin, er, Big Apple, that is...

NAG 2017 Gala

For over 20 years, NAG and GWAPP have been at the forefront of the fight for environmental justice, neighborhood-based planning and public policy justice in Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Now both organizations are looking to define the future of our community for the next 20 years. We are excited to announce that NAG and GWAPP are joining forces to create a more powerful singular…...

Bats & Black-Eyed Susans: a Halloween Exploration of an Urban Park

Did you know there are bats that make NYC their home? Did you know some bats eat mosquitoes? Explore McGolrick Park with a bat expert and learn how to look for and spot bats! You will also learn about some of the native plants in McGolrick Park and why they provide good habitat for wildlife including bats. Children welcome! Rain or Shine. Space is limited. First come first served...

Ghouls & Gourds

Enjoy a cornucopia of spectacular shows and weird workshops. Strut your stuff in Brooklyn’s wackiest costume parade and drum circle. Stilt Dancing Insanity • Giant Spider Web • Rutabaga Skee-Ball • Waltzing Woodland Creatures • Autographs on Author Avenue • Dynamite Drum Circle and Costume Parade! Members and kids under 12 are always FREE!..

Halloween Dog Costume Party and Fundraiser, Presented by MCDRA

We are having a Costume Party and Fundraiser for the Mcarren Park Dog Run! Come out on the 28th of October with your dog in costume, and enter the competition! More to be anounced soon, but Hold the date for some spooky hounds parading for a good cause! The Mcarren Park Dog Run is maintained by a not for profit, volunteer organization- The Mcarren Park Dog Run Association...

Movies Under the Stars: Shocktober Fest : The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Join NYC Parks for free, spoofy horror movies in our city’s parks! In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a scientist who cross dresses. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf)..

North Brooklyn Boat Club Presents: Cthulhu Canoe Haunted Boat Tours!

What horrors lurk below the ancient waters of Newtown Creek …? Let our dark and silent (ACA-certified) guides take you on a terrifying twenty-minute tour of the starkly beautiful postindustrial waters of Newtown Creek. Over the dark surface of this time-haunted stream, strange chants echo, and those who dwell here have changed with the passing of forgotten years. As your boat...

Greenpoint Children’s Annual Halloween Parade, Spooktacular Party & Zombie Nerf War

Calling all goblins and witches, princes and princesses, super heroes and villains! The 14th Annual Greenpoint Children’s Halloween Parade, Spooktacular Party & Zombie Nerf War is on Sunday, October 29, 2017. The costume Halloween Parade assembles at 11:30 AM on Java Street between Manhattan Avenue & McGuinness Blvd. At 12 Noon, we’ll march down Manhattan Avenue to...

Central Park’s Halloween Parade & Pumpkin Flotilla

Bring the whole family and celebrate Halloween in Central Park. Enjoy pumpkin carving, Halloween crafts, spooky stories, a costume parade, and most of all the Conservancy’s signature Pumpkin Flotilla, which sets sail across the Harlem Meer at twilight! This event is free and open to all ages...

Karenna Gore and Roberto Borrero on the Rights of Nature

As the hard effects of climate change are upon us, felt overwhelmingly by the poor and marginalized in places like Puerto Rico, it’s time to rethink the rules of the game. Two environmental thinkers, Karenna Gore and Roberto Borrero, discuss earth ethics, the rights of nature, how to mitigate damages and find ways forward for environmental protections during an era of deregulation...

Haunted Garden on Franklin Street

Come and enjoy the haunted garden on Franklin Street. Refreshments and spookiness will be served....

94th Precinct Community Council Meeting

Meet the 94th Precinct officers and Community Council. Bring your questions and concerns to this monthly community meeting...

Free Garden Workshops in McCarren Park: Putting Your Garden to Bed

This fall, GrowNYC will be offering a free garden-related workshop at the McCarren Park Demonstration Garden space at 457 Leonard Street, behind the pool in McCarren Park. The workshop is aimed at Greenpoint residents and will focus on concepts and examples that are replicable in an average resident’s available space. Registration is required and workshops are limited to 20 people...

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