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Columbia Street Waterfront Association, Inc

Welcome to the Columbia Street Waterfront Association (CSWA). CSWA's purpose is to promote the health, vitality and character of the Columbia Street Waterfront District neighborhood, located in Brooklyn, NY, bounded to the north by Atlantic Avenue, to the east by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, to the south by Hamilton Avenue, and to the west by the East River, and to advocate for the interests of residents, businesses and others with a stake in the Columbia Street Waterfront community.

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CSWA Newsletter Oct 18, 2025: Join the Campaign to have our Neighborhood Represented in BMT Planning!

Updates from the Columbia Street Waterfront Association - October 18, 2025 Greetings. We have some exciting updates to share about our efforts to be represented in future BMT planning, and to help ensure a more comprehensive planning process. We’ve issued our first press release! We’ve selected a candidate to represent our Columbia Street Waterfront neighborhood on the BMT Advisory Task Force–and you can help support his inclusion in the Task Force. We have some BMT City Environmental Quality...

2 months ago • 4 min read

Updates from the Columbia Street Waterfront Association (CSWA) -December 15, 2025 🎄🕎DATE CHANGE! Tree Lighting at Human Compass Garden, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 5:30 PM, followed by gathering at Jalopy Tavern – sponsored by CSWA! [image credit - Zoe Grover] WE'VE MOVED THE DATE DUE TO ICY CONDITIONS! Join CSWA for a night of holiday fun reviving the tree lighting tradition at Human Compass Garden, corner of Sackett and Columbia Streets. There will be music, goodies and Santa at the garden. Then...

9 days ago • 1 min read

Updates from the Columbia Street Waterfront Association (CSWA) -December 7, 2025 🎄🕎Tree Lighting at Human Compass Garden, December 16, 2025, 5:30 PM followed by gathering at Jalopy Tavern – sponsored by CSWA! [image credit - Zoe Grover] Join CSWA for a night of holiday fun reviving the tree lighting tradition at Human Compass Garden, corner of Sackett and Columbia Streets. There will be music, goodies and Santa at the garden. Then join us at Jalopy Tavern, 317 Columbia St for the afterparty!...

17 days ago • 5 min read
Fall trees behind Columbia Street

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🥧🍂Updates from the Columbia Street Waterfront Association - November 26, 2025 3rd (and last) Public Scoping Hearing this Monday, December 1! Thank you to everyone who came to the BMT Forum last Monday, November 17. CSWA was pleased to be a community partner and thrilled with the turnout. It was truly inspiring to see so many of you actively joining this extremely important process. We hope it encouraged you to contribute your thoughts and your concerns to assure the scope...

28 days ago • 3 min read

Updates from the Columbia Street Waterfront Association November 11, 2025 - Happy Veterans Day - Thank you to all Veterans for your Service Community Forum - Brooklyn Marine Terminal - Monday, November 17, 6:30 to 8:30 PM, Sacred Hearts Church, 125 Summit Street In our last several updates, we've talked about the new phase of the BMT project, BMT City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR) and the scoping hearings where community members can speak to concerns and questions about the impact of...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Fireworks seen from Columbia Street, Brooklyn

Updates from the Columbia Street Waterfront Association October 31, 2025 - Happy Halloween! Here are a few important items we are sharing with the community. Still No Response about CSWA's Nominee for Columbia Street Waterfront's Representative to the BMT Advisory Council! It's now been a month since we first submitted James DeFilippis' name for our neighborhood's representative to the new BMT Advisory Council. We have followed up numerous times. And the first Advisory Council meeting was...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read