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Here is What's Happening This Week:TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11th: TA Queens Activist Committee Meeting 6:30pm – 8:00pm Queens Pride House 76-11 37th Ave
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TA Queens Activist Committee Meeting
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Queens Pride House
76-11 37th Avenue, Suite 206
Jackson Heights, Queens
All are welcome at the Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee (TAQC) meeting!
Join your local T.A. to work on creating a separate pedestrian and bike line on the Pulaski Bridge, Traffic Calming on 21st Street, and Queens Blvd.
Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee advocates on behalf of cyclists, pedestrians, and mass transit users, in Queens.
More info here:
http://www.facebook.com/TAQVC |
North Brooklyn Boat Club Annual Meeting
7-9pm
Wythe Hotel
80 Wythe Avenue
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Join North Brooklyn Boatclub at their Annual Membership Meeting!
All are welcome.
More info HERE. |
Hunters Point Parks Conservancy Meeting
7pm
New York Irish Center
10-40 Jackson Avenue
Hunters Point, Queens
Anyone interested in helping care for Gantry Plaza State Park, Hunters Point South Park or our neighborhood's Green Spaces and Street Trees is welcome and encouraged to attend.
More info: www.friendsofgantry.org |
What Would You Do With $1 Million?
7-9pm
Queens Library Sunnyside Branch
43-06 Greenpoint Avenue
Sunnyside, Queens
There’s $1 million available in your community for improvements like parks, school repairs, transportation, and more. And you decide how it will be used!
It’s a new way to make decisions about publicly funded projects, and it’s called Participatory Budgeting.
This session is sponsored by Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer
For more information contact ANASNER@COUNCIL.NYC.GOV or (718) 383-9566 ext. 1
Be a part of a new way of making decisions about public money. Be a part of Participatory Budgeting NYC. |
Dutch Kills Civic Association Meeting
7:30- 8:30pm
St. Patrick's School Hall
39-28 28th Street
Long Island City, Queens
The Dutch Kills Civic Association works to improve the quality of life in its namesake neighborhood.
Meetings are open to all!
More info: www.dutchkillscivic.com |
Leaf Fest: Queensbridge Park
10am to 1pm
Queensbridge Park
41st Avenue & Vernon Blvd
Long Island City, Queens
Rake leaves with friends! Get some exercise! Care for your waterfront!
Join Green Shores NYC, The Astoria Park Alliance, Partnerships for Parks, the Friends of Queensbridge Park and NYC Compost Project at BIG! for our 6th Annual LEAF FEST!
Leaves collected will be composted by NYC Compost Project at BIG! NYC for use throughout the City's green spaces and street tree beds.
All materials & refreshments will be provided for volunteers.
For more information:
mail@greenshoresnyc.org |
Leaf Fest: Astoria Park
10:30am to 12:30pm
Field House in Astoria Park
19th Street at Hoyt Avenue North
(enter through the parking lot)
Astoria, Queens
The leaves are falling!
Autumn is a gorgeous time in Astoria Park with the leaves changing - grab a rake and join the Astoria Park Alliance in preparing the park for winter.
Astoria Park Alliance will provide gloves, tools, and training. Please come in closed-toe shoes, ready to work outdoors!
More info HERE. |
Boatyard Education: Spoon Carving
1pm
North Brooklyn Boat Club
Ash Street at McGuiness Blvd
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Carve your own spoon!
A knife, a piece of pear wood, and your hard work. This two day course will take you from start to finish, and is a great warm-up for paddle carving! If you’ve never worked wood with hand tools, this is a great way to start.
You bring your own knife – Everything else is supplied.
$30 materials fee.
More info and to register HERE. |
Waterfront Greenmarket
Saturdays from 8am to 4pm
Socrates Sculpture Park
Vernon Blvd & Broadway
Long Island City, Queens
Alongside the Park's workshops, yoga classes, sculpture exhibitions and stunning views, the GrowNYC Greenmarket at Socrates Sculpture Park is a great place to spend a Saturday morning. Shoppers will find a bountiful selection of seasonal produce from the Black Dirt region of Orange County, Mexican specialty produce from Richmond County, orchard fruit and juice, meat, poultry and eggs and multi-ethnic artisan breads.
Free cooking demonstrations are held weekly featuring seasonal items from the market, and family friendly activities take place throughout the season.
To learn more about GrowNYC's Greenmarket program, visit www.growNYC.org. |
EAF
Daily through March 22, 2015
Socrates Sculpture Park
Vernon Blvd at Broadway
Ravenswood, Queens
The annual Emerging Artist Fellowship (EAF) Exhibition is a cornerstone of Socrates Sculpture Park’s visual arts programming and is widely acclaimed for the ambition, breadth, and innovation of the works on view. Featuring fifteen artists, EAF14 is a survey of the compelling and diverse state of sculpture today.
More info HERE. |
NYC Compost Project Hosted by Build it Green! NYC, is a community-scale composting network, that works to increase capacity for, acceptance of, and participation in composting in western Queens. We serve the public by hosting weekly and event-specific food scrap drop-offs, training community members in urban composting best practices, and providing high-quality compost to amend our city’s soils. The finished compost is used in community gardens, on street trees, and in public beautification projects.
Instead of adding your food scraps to the landfill, you can drop them off at one of NYC Compost Project Hosted by BIG! drop off locations:
24 / 7:
Long Island City CSA, Hour Children
Open 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.
The bin is located in the parking lot on
11th Street between 36th and 37th Avenues
Long Island City, Queens
Sunday:
9am to 1pm
Jackson Heights Greenmarket
34th Ave at 77th Street
Jackson Heights, Queens
10am to 12pm
Forest Hills Greenmarket
South Side of Queens Blvd at 70th Avenue
Forest Hills, Queens
Monday:
8-11am
Queens Library Steinway Branch
21-45 31st Street
Astoria, Queens
8-11 am
Commuter Composting in Hunters Point
Located near the Vernon/Jackson 7Train Stop
On the North Corner of Vernon Mall
Vernon Blvd & 50th Avenue
Hunters Point, Queens
Tuesday:
8-10am
Commuter Composting
At the parking lot near the southeast corner of N/Q train
Astoria, Queens
More info: www.bignyc.org/compost
Saturday:
10am-1pm
(May 10 - December 20, 2014)
Sunnyside Greenmarket
Skillman Ave between 42 and 43 Streets
10am-1pm
(June 7 - November 22, 2014)
Waterfront Greenmarket at Socrates Sculpture Park
Vernon Blvd & Broadway, Long Island City
1-3pm
Queens Library Broadway Branch
40-20 Broadway
Astoria, Queens
To learn more about BIG! Compost and to get involved, email: compost@bignyc.org
Times and schedule are subject to change. For up-to-date information, visit: http://bignyc.org/drop-sites |
 On October 7th, Mayor De Blasio and Parks Commissioner Silver announced the Community Parks Initiative. Speaking at the Conference was Astoria Park Alliance Co-Chair, Marth Lopez-Gilpin (pictured second from right). Watch the press conference and hear Martha speak at the 30 minute mark. |
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 Thanks to everyone that joined us at our annual Shoreline Cleanup in Astoria Park on Saturday, September 27th! We removed over four hundred gallons of trash from the shoreline of Astoria Park. Special thanks to our event partners, the Astoria Park Alliance, Partnerships for Parks and the NYC Department of Parks and recreation. |
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THANK YOU to Dutch Kills Centraal for being gracious hosts and to everyone that joined us and put the HAPPY in our Bridging the Creek Happy Hour on Thursday, July 31st! |
On Saturday, July 26th, we biked the Creek with two dozen of our newest friends and event partners Recycle A Bicycle, Willis Elkins from Newtown Creek Alliance and Rich Melinick from the Greater Astoria Historical Society.
Willis and Rich led the two hour tour through the Creek-side neighborhoods of Hunters Point, Dutch Kills, Blissville and Greenpoint.
If you missed this tour, stay tuned for our next bike tour scheduled for Sunday, September 21st.
Questions, email: mail@greenshoresnyc.org |
 City of Water Day in OUR Neighborhood! At the Information Table with Clare, Ilana, Victor and BT. (left to right) |
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The community turned out in large numbers for the First Annual City of Water Day at Gantry Plaza State Park on Saturday, July 12th to enjoy paddling off of newly accessible Pier 4, play games on the plaza, read and borrow books at the pop-up library and care for the gardens of Gantry Park.
MANY thanks to our volunteers and event partners:
New York State Parks, Hunters Point Parks Conservancy, Queens Library, Friends of Queens Library at Hunters Point and the LIC Community Boathouse.
We received a grant for $500 for our participation at the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance’s City of Water Day presented by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. This grant was provided by the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program and the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance. |
 Caring for the gardens in the park. (Photo by Kent Cozad) | |  Kayaking off of Pier 4. |
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 NYC Department of Parks & Recreation Queensborough Parks Commissioner, Dorothy Lewandowski addresses the audience. |
The Queensbridge Park Waterfront is Officially Open!
This afternoon, the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation led a press conference/ribbon cutting to open the the Queensbridge Waterfront and Esplanade after 14 months of construction and over a decade of inaccessibility.
The Friends of Queensbridge Park and Green Shores NYC are grateful to Council Member Van Bramer, Congresswoman Maloney, State Senator Gianaris, Assemblywoman Nolan, NYC Parks Commissioner Silver, Queensborough Commissioner Lewandowski and others for listening to the community and making this day possible. |
Thank you to Mitch Waxman and Mai Armstrong of the Newtown Creek Alliance for leading our three Bridging the Creek Walking Tours on June 8, 15 and 22, 2014.
Dozens of participants learned about the history, present and potential future for Newtown Creek.
Stay tuned for a full schedule of tours and workshops! |
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 BIG THANKS to the Astoria Park Alliance, Citylights Church, City Parks Foundation, New York Cares, IBEW3DYC, Council Member Constantinides, Partnerships for Parks, the NY Knicks and Chase for making It's My Park Day in Astoria Park on Saturday, June 21st a success! Pictured: Larry Johnson (NY Knicks Organization) and Nichole Henderson-Roy (Partnerships for Parks) |
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 The Long Island City High School Marching Band performs at Queensbridge Park after leading the Annual LIC Bike Parade down Vernon Blvd on Saturday, June 7, 2014. |
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 Thanks to Jorge from Parks, Sharon and the TransCanada team for helping to clean up after Friday's heavy rain at It's My Park Day in Queensbridge Park on Saturday, May 17th! |
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Thank you to the dozens of volunteers that joined in the RIVERKEEPER SWEEP along our waterfront on Saturday, May 10th!
Volunteers mulched, swept and picked up garbage along our waterfront spaces on Anable Basin, Hallets Cove and Astoria Park.
SPECIAL THANKS to dedicated volunteers, NY Cares, Cornel Alumni Network and our partners in the Sweep:
Riverkeeper, LIC Boathouse, Hunters Point Parks Conservancy, NY State Parks and Plaxall. |
The Waterfront Vision Plan was created for the community and by the community with Green Shores NYC & The Trust for Public Land.
In the summer and fall of 2010, hundreds of Western Queens residents came together to participate in seven neighborhood listening sessions, two area-wide brainstorming sessions and a waterfront bus tour generating more than a thousand comments, ideas and solutions for creating a more connected, useful and beautiful waterfront.
You can view the Waterfront Vision Plan by visiting: www.greenshoresnyc.org
To request a copy of the plan by mail or for more information, email: mail@greenshoresnyc.org. |
IT'S YOUR WATERFRONT!
Green Shores NYC works to enliven the Astoria-Long Island City waterfront by caring for and advocating for safe public parks, green spaces, street trees, waterways and a waterfront greenway. Visit us online at: www.greenshoresnyc.org
To include your event on our updates and calendar, please email: mail@greenshoresnyc.org
and put "EVENTS" in the subject line. |
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