Some good green times at SRWA’s Greening The Ridge green fest on the pier last weekend.

Some really great Brooklyn green orgs were there: Transportation Alternatives, CUE, Bettencourt Green Building Supplies, Green Spa NY, Narrows Botanical Garden, Department of Sanitation (got some cool recycling stuff from them), and lots more.

The buzz was great and it was the kind of event that as you got closer to the pier, you could feel the positive energy. It was a great vibe, and it has the potential to become a bigger and bigger annual green event in Brooklyn.

The band was Pill Hill Radio, they totally rocked great tunes the whole time, including the requisite pier-flavored Otis Redding classic “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” complete with segue into Radiohead’s “Creep” and back into “Dock of the Bay.” Nice. The guitarist coined a phrase that I thought was so cool I added it to the rotating quotes at the top of the website: “Keep it green if you know what I mean.”

Of course, I was also pretty surprised at how many people were out there fishing.

Quite a few, as it turned out:

People pulled up all kinds of stuff, like this guy. Look at the feelers in front of the fins there, wild stuff.

A bunch of flounders as well…

…And then this happened. BAM!

Yes… That is a 41″ striped bass!

After Greening The Ridge and the fishing madness, I went for a stroll with my friend to the Narrows Botanical Garden, just around the corner from 69th Street Pier. It was great. Highly recommended that everyone go there.

Narrows Botanical Garden has a free film series and a Halloween event coming up too.

Check out their website for more info: www.narrowsbg.org

Tags: 69th Street Pier, Bettencourt Green Building Supplies, Center for the Urban Environment, Flickr, Green Spa New York, Greening The Ridge, Narrows Botanical Garden, NYC Sanitation, SRWA, Transportation, Transportation Alternatives

Category: Alternative Transportation, Culture, Green Lifestyle, Green Space, Sustainable Education, Urban Environment, Urban Greening, Water

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One Response to “Greening The Ridge: Summer Solstice in Bay Ridge”

1. Brian Luster Says:
   June 27th, 2008 at 11:15 am

   That weird orange fish with the feelers in front of the fins is a sea robin. I’ve caught a couple in Jamaica Bay. They’re very ugly.

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