ShareShow your Support for Friends of Brook Park Dear Friend, Friends of Brook Park needs your help. As 2009 comes to a wintry end, we reflect on what a great year it has been here. While we are proud to bring you our environmental programs, we need your support to keep us going. Whether you’ve [...]
ShareCity Council approves Lower Concourse rezoning by DANIEL BEEKMAN“When Department of City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden looks at the Lower Concourse, she pictures a Harlem River promenade. She pictures skyscraping condos, corner stores, lofts and a waterfront park. Burden pictures a rusty neighborhood remade for residential and commercial development. When Friends of Brook Park director [...]
ShareMillionTreesNYC, one of the 127 PlaNYC initiatives, is a citywide, public-private program with an ambitious goal: to plant and care for one million new trees across the City’s five boroughs over the next decade. By planting one million trees, New York City can increase its urban forest—our most valuable environmental asset made up of street [...]
ShareGrowing Garlic in The Bronx Garlic Planting Workshop with Friends of Brook Park and NY Botanical Garden http://www.friendsofbrookpark.org Join El Girasol Community Garden’s Vincent Russo in learning the basics of planting garlic. Help prepare the planting bed and plant garlic cloves for next summer’s harvest. Bronx Green-Up community gardeners who participate will receive a head [...]
Share December 12, 2007Time: Afternoon, What: Garden Dance Performance: by Sabine Heubusch Please let us know if you will bring your students to enjoy: – Brief Seasonal Hand’s on Tour of Garden- Special GARDEN DANCE performance- Quick Dance/Movement Workshop Exploration The dancer brings the audience to different places in the garden. The audience has the [...]
ShareIf you are in NYC, please attend…. You can ask/tell the Bronx parks Commissioner as a Friend of Brook Park! *Move forward with the community design for Brook Park, with the undergroundbrook, labyrinth, fruit trees and outdoor classroom *Move forward the south bronx waterfront park on the Harlem River (Thank Helen Foster for helping to [...]
Share What a wonderful day it was to take out with our canoe fleet representatives from neighboring CSX and Waste Management companies. We wanted to show them even more the exciting Harlem River Park site we have been working on to create public access. We discussed safety and ecological issues and how we can work [...]
ShareHappy Autumn! We at Friends of Brook Park want to invite you to join us at Brook Park between 140th and 141st Street and Brook Avenue entering through 141st Street. Thanks to our expanding community we are making great, green things happen in our neighborhood. As you know, more gardens and parks and trees improve [...]
ShareTrashtastic Thursday with Harry J. Bubbins Trashtastic Tuesday comes early this week (or late, depending on your world view). Note that the everydaytrash post flow may trickle down next week. I’ll be in Budapest. Stay tuned for stories of Euro and post-Communist trash. In the meantime…_______ everydaytrash: So, I heard the city is now using [...]
ShareBronx: Garbage Takes the Train from the NYTimesRead more Here Published: August 15, 2007 Garbage is now being shipped out of the Bronx entirely by rail instead of by trucks, part of a city plan to reduce the number of trucks traveling on the streets, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday. The Bronx is the [...]
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