A lecture on the Gowanus Canal

This blog was set up as well to announce events in the North Brooklyn sector. The Gowanus Canal is a very interesting  place, a messy situation with the terrible water quality that deters birds from settling in but on occasions I hear of a Common Loon, seals, of course swans , etc..But its habitat.

Here is the email I got from the Museum of the City of NY ..U get a discount if you mention Brooklyn Bird Club member..

--Kingsboider

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Subject: Invitation: Superfund-Gowanus Canal Program/Museum of the City of New York


Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:10:51 -0500

From: "Tom Reynolds"

To: info@brooklynbirdclub.org,


I wanted to be sure you knew about a program on the Superfund designations at Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek, among other locations, at the Museum of the City of New York that might be of great interest to everyone at the Brooklyn Bird Club. I’m including the detailed program description below.

We would like to extend our member’s discount to your members and other constituents, and I hope you might be able to pass this invitation on to them. We would also like to invite you and any interested staff and board to attend as our guests.

Please let me know if you have any questions at all,

Best,

-Tom Reynolds

Tuesday, February 8 at 6:30 PM


NYC Superfund: Toxic Solution or Toxic Label?

What will the recent Superfund designations of Newtown Creek in Queens and the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn mean for community residents and the rest of the city? How will they affect the plans of real estate developers interested in revitalizing these post-industrial zones? What is the fate of the natural environments themselves?

Roderick M. Hills, Jr., the William T. Comfort III Professor of Law at New York University moderates a panel discussion including Alan Bell, principal and co-founder of Hudson Companies; Walter Mugdan, Superfund Division Director at the EPA; Kathleen Schmid, Director of the Newtown Creek Alliance, and Carter H. Strickland, Jr., Deputy Commissioner for Sustainability, New York City Department of Environmental Protection will discuss the perils and possibilities of cleaning up New York City's environmental problems. Co-sponsored by the Newtown Creek Alliance and presented as part of the Museum's Urban Forum series, New York Neighborhoods—Preservation and Development.


Reservations required: 917-492-3395 or programs@mcny.org

$6 Museum members; $12 non-members; $8 seniors and students


$6 when you mention the Brooklyn Bird Club


Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street

New York, NY 10029

http://www.mcny.org/