Community Connection

GoFB uses walking tours as a key advocacy tool to connect Flushing Waterways communities to Flushing Bay and Creek. Our walking tours focus on the impacts that large-scale development projects would have on the surrounding communities and ecology.

Our Tours

Our tours highlight local history, ecology, and current plans for development in Willets Point and downtown Flushing.

We frequently partner with Cody Herrmann, a GoFB board member and social-practice artist, on her walking tours of the west side of Flushing Creek. Starting at Mets-Willets Point, Cody guides attendees through the Willets Point redevelopment project and discusses the project’s impact on immigrant-owned small businesses and the ecology that thrives at the shoreline. The tour continues through Willets Point and ends at the Van Wyck Expressway, highlighting the issue of accessibility and the difficulty of getting to Flushing Creek.

During our tours of Flushing Creek, attendees learn about the Special Flushing Waterfront District, an entirely private 29-acre development project that enables luxury housing and development along the Flushing Creek shoreline, that would have irreparable impacts on the surrounding ecology and Flushing community.

Walk With Us!

If you’d like to schedule a private walking tour, contact us here.

You can also check out our Events page for upcoming programming!