2017

​Watershed Relief Map
Sunday January 22 at 12:30pm
Queens Museum

Photo by: Mitch Waxman

Tour of Yonkers Sewage Treatment
Plant (for educators)
Saturday March 18at 10 a.m.


Water Ecology & Engineering
Field Trips 
​Spring 2017

Students using binoculars at the Ridgewood Reservoir

Lemon Creek Beach Cleanup
Saturday April 8 at 10am
Staten Island

Minetta Brook Walk
4/27 & 9/20 at 6:30pm
Greenwich Village

Viele map showing NYC's original streams (1866)

​Drawing Water
A Lecture with artist Stacy Levy
Friday May 12, 4:30pm workshop & 7pm lecture
​Hunter College

Springside Rain Wall & Garden, Springside School, Philadelphia PA 2008 stacylevy.com

​Bronx River Bike Tour
Sunday 5/21 and 9/24 at 10am
 Williamsbridge Oval

Geology of Fifth Ave Walk
Sunday June 4 at 10am
With geologist Sidney Horenstein

General Sherman Statue - Central Park South

For Teachers: Horseshoe Crab Discovery Walk
Friday June 9 at 4pm
Plumb Beach
​with Alan Ascher

Ridgewood Reservoir
NYC Park Dept Meetings notes 
June 21 at 6pm & 7pm St. Pancras, Glendale
May 23 at 7pm at PS 68Q meeting minutes 
Thursday June 1 at N Brooklyn YMCA meeting minutes

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Neversink Reservoir Paddle
Saturday 6/24, 9/16 at 11am
​Cramer's Cove

​Newtown Creek Tour: Greenpoint to Hunters Point
Thursday 6/29 and 8/24 at 7pm
with Mitch Waxman

photo by Mitch Waxman

​Tibbetts Brook Exploration
October 1 at 4pm
​with Steve  Duncan

Lemon Creek Beach Cleanup
Saturday 9/30 at 10am
Staten Island

Drawing Water: Making Streams Visible 
Sunday October 22 at 2pm
Workshop with artist Stacy Levy + panel discussion

 
An Eric Sanderson Lecture on
New York City’s Streams
Friday December 8 at 7 pm
Hunter College

City Council Hearing on Stormwater Infrastructure
12/13 at 10am
City hall

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Black Jacks: African American Sailors in the Age of Sail
Friday February 3 at 7pm at Brooklyn Borough Hall
Saturday February 4 at the Noble Maritime Collection
with Dr. Jeff Bolster

Crew of the Rathdown 1892, courtesy NPS

​Ridgewood Reservoir Community Tours
4/1, 5/6, 5/7, 6/11, 7/15, 8/20, 9/10, 10/14, 10/15, 11/11 at 11am

Ridgewood Reservoir, October 2016

​Volunteer Landscaping at the
Ridgewood Reservoir
Sunday April 23 at 10am

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Croton Aqueduct Bike Tour
Saturday April 29 at noon
with Matt Malina

Old Croton Aqueduct exposed during excavation on W. 105th Street (1928). DEP

​​Following Harlem Creek Tour 
5/4, 5/17, 6/2, 8/9, 8/30 at 6:30pm
with Steve Duncan

Fifth Avenue sewer where the Harlem Creek flows into. Steve Duncan

Horseshoe Crab Discovery Walks
5/20, 6/3 & 6/10 at 6:30pm
Plumb Beach

Plumb Beach Cleanup
Saturday 6/3 at 10am
(rescheduled from 5/13)
Brooklyn

​High Bridge Walk
6/8, 9/17
with engineer Bryan Diffley

Watery Beginings: Old NYC Water Supply Walk
June 15 at 6:30pm
with Sidney Horenstein    

Tea Water Pump, NYPL

​Spring 2017 Summary

Canarsie Beach Cleanup 
July 21
Community Service Day with Skanska USA

​​Flushing Creek Bike Tour
with Sergey Kadinsky, author of Hidden Waters of NYC
Sunday July 23 at 10am

Flushing Creek, Joseph R Bien map 1891, via David Rumsfeld Maps

​Central Park's Ramble:
Geology, History and Waterworks
August 3 & 17 at 6:30pm
with Sidney Horenstein

Central Park Ramble, photo by Ken Chaya

Plumb Beach Cleanup
Saturday 9/23 at 10am
Brooklyn

Old NYC Water Supply Walk - Part II
Wednesday September 27 at 6:30pm
with Sidney Horenstein

​​Bushwick Beer Walking Tour
April 22, June 3 & Nov 4
With Chris Heuberger

2017 Year-End Summary