It’s Not The Start Of A Bad Joke . . .

The Newtown Creek Nature Walk really will open at the end of the month:

It doesn’t look like much, but come next weekend, Greenpoint residents will be able to walk past a geologic marvel, down a concrete path, through a shiny metal gate and up some steps to find themselves at the very first greenway on Newtown Creek.

Years in the making, the nature walk was one of the community benefits that the Newtown Creek Monitoring Committee (NCMC), a group comprised of local residents that meets regularly with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), was able to negotiate as part of the massive Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant expansion and upgrade.

Visitors will enter the park at the end of Paidge Avenue near the intersection of Provost Street. In addition to being an oasis on a creek that has for decades been an ecological whipping boy, the nature walk will also feature many activities for children that will teach them about the creek.