Filed under: Youth education
For the next two years, Ironbound Community Corporation and Newark Riverfront Revival have been awarded funding through the EPA’s Urban Waters program to develop and deliver educational programs for Newark young people about the Passaic River and the politics of the environment.
We are working to recruit a group of young people to work regularly on the project and create materials to help educate the rest of their city.
For our first project, we worked with a group of students from East Side High School. We met early at Cortlandt Street Family Success Center. Nice mural!
The aftermath of Sandy was apparent. The Center was being used as a distribution point for emergency supplies. The goal of the workshop was to gather evidence about how the storm affected Newark.
We visited “the Island,” a part of the Ironbound close to Route 1&9.
We took notes and made photographs.
Here, the impact of the storm was clear and frightening. Many houses had been declared unsafe by the Buildings Department. Some had foundations that had completely collapsed.
We drove near the Passaic Valley Sewerage Authority, which has been in the news due to problems caused by the storm. A guard advised us to move along.
Closer to the seaport, we began to notice strange things about fences.
We could not prove it, but it was easy to imagine these objects being put here by a large gush of water.
Besides the guard, we didn’t see many people. We did see signs of what kinds of businesses exist in this part of the city.
A few times, we saw standing pools of water, but it was difficult to tell if it was a usual situation or caused by the storm.
Stay tuned for further river-related explorations.
Filed under: Building Things, Making the Rules for Development, Public Programs, Youth education
At the fourth biennial Passaic Riverfront Institute, Newark Riverfront Regeneration presented an update on two years of riverfront work with “The Riverfront That Newark Wants: Progress Report 2009-2010.” Click below or here to download the PDF.
Designed by students from St. Vincent Academy and the Greater Newark Conservancy Junior Rangers with Damon Rich and Erika Wood. Click to enlarge!
On Sunday, May 16, students from five Newark schools launched boats they built with help from the Project U.S.E. Boatbuilding Program onto the cool waters of the Passaic River in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood. Congratulations to University Heights Charter School, Sussex Avenue School, Discovery Charter School, Big Picture Schools, and Ann Street School!
Filed under: Youth education
Students from the Greater Newark Conservancy Junior Rangers and Saint Vincent Academy explored Newark’s riverfront and then helped design a billboard about it’s future.
Billboard design.
Exploring Newark’s riverfront.
Billboard installed.
Filed under: Youth education
The Summer 2009 issue of Next American City features an article about Mayor Cory Booker, illustrated with an image of Newark Riverfront 3000.
Please join Mayor Cory Booker for the opening of the exhibition Newark Riverfront 3000, on view in City Hall’s Basement Rotunda in March and April 2009. A collaboration between Newark’s Division of Planning and Community Development, the East Ironbound Family Success Center, and the Ironbound Community Corporation the exhibition is the result of a 4-month project by students from East Side and Arts High Schools. The exhibition features documentation of the current state of the riverfront and visions of what might be there in the year 3000 in the form of models, drawings, and photographs.
The event will also announce the public consultation process for the design of Newark’s first riverfront park in partnership with the Trust for Public Land. Preliminary design ideas for the park are scheduled to be presented to the public on March 31 at City Hall.
A group of eight young people and mentors have begun work on a Vision Plan for the Passaic River called “Newark Riverfront 3000.” The group is currently undertaking field surveys, conducting interviews, and developing initial design concepts. Newark Riverfront 3000 will be unveiled at an exhibition at City Hall in Spring 2009.
Read the press release here.
Filed under: Youth education
The Newark Riverfront 3000 team has made steady progress in preparation for their exhibition next month.
Filed under: Youth education
A group of eight young people and mentors have begun work on a Vision Plan for the Passaic River called “Newark Riverfront 3000.” The group is currently undertaking field surveys, conducting interviews, and developing initial design concepts. Newark Riverfront 3000 will be unveiled at an exhibition at City Hall in Spring 2009.
