It’s difficult to choose a single place that represents The Trust’s efforts on the waterfront, but the stretch of the East River from Astoria to Dumbo is a good starting point.

A few highlights: We are longtime funders of the Waterfront Alliance, which enlists businesses, government, and civic organizations for everything from preserving jobs to making sure the East Side ferry takes workers to areas where subway and bus transportation is limited.

When an investment banker, Milton Puryear, founded the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative to connect bike paths instead of expanding the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, he, too, got support from the Trust’s environmental funds.