Sat, October 18th, 2025
12:00pm — 2:00pm
Join the Waterfront Alliance for a special Daylighting Tour of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park as part of the FMCP Resiliency Study—a visionary initiative to restore natural waterways, enhance climate resilience, and reimagine the park’s ecological future. This guided walking tour around the historic core, from the Tide Gate Bridge to the Fountain of the Planets, will uncover the park’s hidden streams and explore how daylighting—bringing buried waterways back to the surface—can transform urban landscapes, support biodiversity, and protect communities from flooding. Learn how this work fits into a broader strategy to make FMCP a model for sustainable, climate-ready parks across NYC.
The tour will be led by Joseph Sutkowi, Chief Waterfront Design Officer of the Waterfront Alliance.
This tour will include an approximately 1.5 mile walk with limited shade. Guests are encouraged to bring water and wear comfortable walking shoes.
Children 10+ are welcome. Every person attending, including children, requires a ticket.
Water Works: Discover how water shapes the city, from the system of pipes that delivers 1 billion gallons of clean water into (and out of) homes daily, to the working waterfront that drove the city's economy for centuries, to the challenges of adapting 520 miles of shoreline for a wetter future. Explore more.
Designed by Waterfront Alliance, AKRF, SCAPE Landscape Architecture
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Civic Center, Manhattan
Gowanus, Brooklyn
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