Join CPN and Billion Oyster Project for a "community scoping meeting" to review the project plans to date for establishing oysters in Powell's Cove Park. Meeting location to be determined...watch for updates!
Save the Date for Free Public Kayaking at MacNeil Park! You'll also be able to look through a telescope onsite, with Kuiper Kat Astronomy! Exact times, and many more details, to come.... Volunteers needed for boat crew (loading, unloading, boat patrol) - community service credit available! Contact kathryncervino at gmail
Join us for our 2026 Annual Meeting! We will review our 2025 & our plans for 2026; great guest speakers, listed below. Light dinner will be served. Registration required! Register here. 7 pm at Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14th Road, CP (doors open 6:30 pm). LEARN ABOUT: Outfall Pipe Extension near Kayak Launch: Not Happening! Pipe […]
THIS EVENT will now be in the spring! Join us on MARCH 22 from 10 am - Noon! Join us in celebration of the first weekend of spring -- and a belated World Wetlands Day -- to clean the coast of the magnificent Powell's Cove Park in College Point! Powell’s Cove, an environmental waterfront park […]
Join the Urban Park Rangers and Coastal Preservation Network to celebrate Earth Day by giving a gift to Powell's Cove Park: a vigorous cleanup! Partner with us to get rid of the trash, and join our hands-on Earth Day celebration! Students can come straight from school and earn community service credit, too! Come for a […]
Join us in College Point to clean the MacNeil Park coastline and the park itself as part of two big events: the 15th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep, which takes place throughout NYC and the Hudson Valley, and I Love My Park Day, a statewide cleanup blitz! This event is co-hosted by CPN and A Better College […]
Save the date for our annual Free Kayaking at MacNeil Park in College Point! Saturday June 6 (raindate: June 7). Organized by Coastal Preservation Network and LIC Community Boathouse; cosponsored by A Better College Point Civic Association. Free public kayaking from 1-4 pm!!! Also: -Billion Oyster Project will be on hand to explain oyster restoration […]
Volunteer to help NYC Parks' Stewardship Team with ongoing restoration work at Powell's Cove Park. We could really use the extra hands! While you're there, learn the importance of species diversity to ecosystem health. Registration required. Register here. Meet at the Malba entry on 11th Ave & 138th Pl.
Join us on Saturday, July 11 at Big Rock for a Big Cleanup!! Tools and snacks to be provided by our partners at Team AOC; trash to be removed by our partners at Snappy Junk Removal. We will meet at the dead end of 28th Ave. and 119th St. Register here.
Volunteer with NYC Parks and Coastal Preservation Network for the Trees Count 2025-26 Census! You will receive a tote bag with all the materials needed to count trees. We'll start with a 30-minute training session that includes the basics of tree identification and how to measure and assess each tree. Using our Tree Census app, […]