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FoBP in Sierra Club national magazine

SharePlanting Seeds In New York’s urban core, pastoral dreams take root By Tali Woodward Unique Harris turns the sprig of basil over between his fingers. He takes a sniff, pops it into his mouth, chews for a few seconds, then flashes a thumbs-up to the rest of the kids gathered in Brook Park, a community [...]

Sunday August 22nd, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Speed Bump Progress on 140th Street

ShareThe effort led by FoBP and our local community to enhance the safety on 140th Street has progressed significantly since our volunteers, like you, collected over 300 signatures from residents, parents and teachers from the neighborhood. The block hosts three schools in one building, with two parks, Saw MIll and Brook Parks. Between the parks [...]

Thursday August 19th, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Frack Ban Public Meeting

ShareThis is an important opportunity to demand a BAN to this practice in NYS. Many have celebrated the recent moratorium bill passed in the NYS Senate. It is not a a law, and has not even passed the Assembly and been signed by the Governor. We need a BAN, not a moratorium. If elected officials [...]

Monday August 16th, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Garden Hearing Review

ShareBy Rebekah McCabe On Tuesday, August 10th the NYC Parks Department convened a public hearing to solicit the testimonies of community gardeners regarding proposed new rules and regulations that threaten the preservation of the city’s gardens granted under the 2002 Spitzer agreement.   Meeting early in the morning, Brook Park gardeners and their friends, families [...]

Thursday August 12th, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Chicken Rearing Workshop

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Wednesday July 21st, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Garden Emergency

Share Hello all! We send a lot of interesting things, but this one touches us! Spread it on the streets, twitter and facebook. This is very URGENT. All gardens, many just like Brook Park, are subject to destruction after September 2010. This is us in the NYTimes explaining the situation: These are fliers you can [...]

Thursday July 15th, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Red Tail Hawk Rescued in South Bronx

ShareFledging Falls from Nest, Local bird watcher Lee Rivera notifies environmental group When Mott Haven resident Lee Rivera saw a fledging red-tail hawk fall form its nest on top of an air-conditioner on 149th Street, he knew to contact local environmental organization Friends of Brook Park. He rescued the raptor from traffic on Third Avenue [...]

Monday June 28th, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Bronx Kill’s oyster cult Eying bivalves to clean polluted water

ShareSee the article online here. BY DANIEL BEEKMAN Tuesday, June 22nd 2010 The Bronx Kill could soon be alive – with oysters. A South Bronx community group plans to reseed the waterway with oysters and mussels and, in the process, revive the polluted waterway, which separates the Bronx from Randalls Island. The group – Friends [...]

Thursday June 24th, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Group fights for water rights

ShareUp creek on river access Group fights for water rights BY VISHAL PERSAUD Daily News Tuesday, June 15,2010 WATER, water everywhere, and no place to put a paddle. That’s the gripe a Bronx group is raising over lack of public access to the Harlem River waterfront at the new Mill Pond Park in Mott Haven. [...]

Thursday June 17th, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Stop ALL Drilling and Demand a Clean Energy Future

ShareStop Drilling and Demand a Clean Energy Future. Let’s put an end to drilling. It’s been over a month since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people were killed in the explosion and millions of gallons of oil have been dumped into the Gulf of Mexico in what has [...]

Sunday June 6th, 2010 in Uncategorized | No Comments »