NYCkayaker Steinway Creek

[TomBrooklyn]

> > From: "Erik Baard" 28 Apr 2008 
 
> ConEd is likely to sell a large chunk of real estate to FedEx. If we are
> smart, this might bring the banks of the Steinway Creek into community
> hands.
> 
> I have written of our interest in the site to the harbor community's friend
> and ally, Dorothy Lewandowski, the Queens Commissioner for NYC Department of
> Parks and Recreation. My gut is that the site is out of the way enough that
> a large paddling program and boathouse wouldn't likely blossom immediately.
> But a storage container or shack on the adjacent parking lot and wetlands
> restoration (marsh grasses, oysters, native shoreline plantings) would be
> appropriate.
> 
> There are adjacent ball fields, the Brooklyn-Queens greenway will pass it (a
> bike lane exists on 20th Avenue), and 31st Street runs up the western side.
> There's great potential in the long run.
> 
> Thoughts?
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Excellent idea all around.   Thanks for taking the initiative in making a contact
about it.   What's the next step?
TomBk