Everyone's getting psyched for this summer's JellyNYC Pool Parties at McCarren Park. But as we all know, this will be the series's last year at the soon-to-be-renovated pool. So instead of throwing in the towel (it's a pool joke, get it?), JellyNYC is looking for a new place to host the concerts next year. And that place might just be Greenpoint, which everyone knows is totally hipper than Williamsburg these days anyway. So there.

They're gunning for a run at the new, 28-acre Bushwick Inlet Park, with the help of the Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park Committe, who held their first meeting last night. If you missed it, don't worry. You can get involved by e-mailing info @ gwapp . com. And here's the organization's agenda (via Brookyln Vegan):

 

WE NEED to:
1) Learn the details of and monitor the plans and timetable for the Levine Parcel (N9/N10 streets), adjacent to the State Park where ground is set to break on a community playing field promised to be ready for soccer in Summer 2009 - plans for the field as well as a innovative "green" Parks Dept building are nearly set to go out to bid
- we need to get our committee up and running so that we have future input and influence at the planning stages!

2) Learn and stay informed of the City''s efforts and plans for the relocation of Citi-Storage ... the big blue building on N. 11th St (with a thriving local industrial operation) smack in the middle of the proposed park.

3) Learn and stay informed of Parks Department's plans for demolition, environmental testing, remediation and future as well as interim plans for 50 Kent Street

4) Keep informed of the status of the TGE power plant appeal ...
presumably doomed but limping along

WE NEED to form committees for these as well as numerous other issues concerning the park (ie relationship between State Park and BIP, ecological issues, need for and means of obtaining community input in planning BEFORE plans are finalized, status of Monitor Museum vis a vis BIP...

WE NEED to create a website in which we monitor the issues, stay informed and hold the City and Parks Department accountable for the creation of our Park.