COASTAL PRESERVATION NETWORK is dedicated to preserving, protecting, and restoring the shoreline and environment of Northeast Queens and Long Island and thereby safeguarding the health of residents who live here. We work to find and report shoreline polluters, to preserve and clean our valuable local greenspaces,  to create teaching gardens, divert organic waste and increase composting,  to replant wetlands, to expand public access to the waterfront, and to fight careless overdevelopment along our coast.

In Queens, we focus on the coastline of College Point, with emphasis on MacNeil Park and Powell's Cove Park, two magnificent East River parks, and a long-neglected stretch of Flushing Bay waterfront that we christended "Big Rock Beach." We are working with Billion Oyster Project to restore oyster habitat in Powell's Cove, and with the NYC Parks Department to remove abandoned vessels and large debris from College Point's coast.  An emerging initiative will revive a community garden at a public school in Whitestone. We launched and operated a food scrap dropoff program at a public park, working with partners to turn the scraps into compost.

In Long Island, our newest area of focus, we are working to launch  a pilot program for residential food scrap diversion and community composting in the village of Upper Brookville, located in the town of Oyster Bay.  Most of Long Island lacks collection/drop-off systems for food scraps, even though this material accounts for  estimated 1/3 of all waste. Ours is among the grassroots efforts to change that and catch up to NYC , which has a five-borough curbside food scrap collection system.

Through environmental workshops, shoreline cleanups, seagrass and oyster plantings, research, parks advocacy, educational presentations and partnerships, Coastal is creating more vibrant waterfronts and parks, reconnecting the public to the coastal ecosystem, building environmental knowledge, protecting our natural resources, and strengthening community service and pride. CPN is an all-volunteer 501c3 organization established in 2002.