North Brooklyn Community Boathouse

51 Ash Street | also 437 McGuinness Boulevard | Greenpoint | built 2024

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2008
A pollution settlement creates the fund that pays for a Newtown Creek boathouse
In 2008 a settlement over pollution fines paid by the city's Department of Environmental Protection led New York State to set up a $7 million fund for projects benefiting the affected community, with environmental projects favored. The North Brooklyn boat club proposed one of the city's largest boathouses on Newtown Creek, and in public polling and feasibility ranking it came out as the top choice. It was allocated $3 million, with the City Parks Foundation overseeing construction, and by 2014 talks covered 6,500 square feet on Ash Street.
“A 2008 settlement over pollution fines by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection led the state of New York to create a $7 million fund…”
Source: Wikipedia
2023
August
Construction of the North Brooklyn Community Boathouse building reaches its highest point
The community boathouse building was first promised to the neighborhood in 2011, and its construction topped out in August 2023. A Greenpointers article of September 2025 asked when the building would open. It described public projects like this one as prone to languishing in permitting and environmental remediation.
Source: greenpointers.com

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