River Rally 2026

Guardians of Flushing Bay and the NYC Urban Field Station will present the social assessment toolkit, a participatory research approach for studying how people use and value blue and green spaces, and showcase its application to Flushing Waterways. This workshop is for everyone: we will provide introductory information about the toolkit and its application, and an outdoor, interactive social assessment training to learn how to use the tool. The outcomes for participants will be 1. An introductory understanding of the social assessment research approach, 2. Trained knowledge on how to conduct a social assessment for a green/blue space, and 3. Introductory understanding of how a water-focused advocacy group could apply insights gained from the social assessment.