Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service

Multiple Locations & Times Citywide

Celebrate the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a Day of Service.

Join NYC Parks and volunteers to help clean up parks and rec centers across the five boroughs.

More info HERE.

Queens CB2 Land Use Committee Public Meeting

6:30pm to 9:30pm

Academy for Careers in Film & Television
1-50 51st Ave
Hunters Point, Queens

www.nyc.gov/queenscb2

4TH ANNUAL MIBA LUNCHEON

12:30pm

Connolly's Corner
71-17 Grand Avenue
Maspeth, NY 11378

Join the Maspeth Industrial Business Association (MIBA) for their 4th Annual Luncheon!

Special Guest Speaker:
Miquela Craytor
Director of NYC Industrial, NYCEDC

FREE TO MIBA MEMBERS!
Non-Members: $50 at the door.
Cash or check only.
RSVP required.

To RSVP, contact Jean Tanler, MIBA Coordinator, at
718-205-3773 or jtanler@bocnet.org. Seating is limited.

Help Design Tree Guards For Greenpoint's Street Trees

7-9pm

Greenpoint Reformed Church
136 Milton Street, Basement
Greenpoint

Greening Greenpoint, a three-year program managed by the New York Tree Trust, will increase tree canopy cover, improve the health of existing trees, and engage residents in the stewardship of trees in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Join fellow Greenpointers at this meeting - and help decide the tree guards to be used in your neighborhood!

Greening Greenpoint is made possible with funding provided by the New York State Office of the Attorney General and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund.

For more information on the event or Greening Greenpoint, contact the New York Tree Trust at nytreetrust@parks.nyc.gov or (718) 760-4009

Ridgewood Democratic Club Membership Brunch

11am

Ridgewood Democratic Club
6070 Putnam Avenue
(1 block off Fresh Pond Road)
Ridgewood, Queens

For more information and to rsvp, email:
ridgewooddemocraticclub@gmail.com

NYRR Open Run

9am

Astoria Park
19th Street and Hoyt Avenue
Meet at the Field House next to the Track
Astoria, Queens

New York Road Runners (NYRR) Open Run is a new community-based initiative, bringing free weekly runs and walks to local neighborhood parks, all over NYC.

Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on leash are welcome. No advance registration required.

More info:
http://openrun.nyrr.org/#Astoria-Park

Watershed Relief Map Presentation with NYC H2O

1 p.m.

Queens Museum

Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY 11368

New York City hosted the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing, Queens. To show off the city's water system that tapped mountain springs as far as 100 miles away, the Cartographic Survey Force, a branch of the Works Progress Administration, constructed a 3-dimensional model of the system out of wood and plaster for @ $100,000 (about $1.5 million in today's dollars).

Measuring 32 feet by 20 feet it never made it to the Fair and instead was put into storage; some said it because it was too big, but others have said it was to protect the City's Water system from spies as the country was beginning to contemplate war. It was shown once in 1948 - at the city's Golden Anniversary Exposition - and then forgotten. In 1991, a DEP architect discovered that the map was stored in the Jerome Avenue Pumping Station (built 1906) when he started to renovate that landmark building. The map -- in rough shape after 40 years of neglect -- was restored to its former glory in 2006.

You can now see the map for yourself and hear about its story from NYC H2O Director Matt Malina. A question and answer session will follow with Bryan Diffley and Peter DiSpensa, two civil engineers who worked on the water system.

This event is free [suggested $5 entrance fee to the museum].

RSVP and more info here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/watershed-relief-map-jan-24-2016-tickets-19669278341?aff=sim

Chance Ecologies Exhibit

December 17, 2015 through January 21, 2016

Radiator Gallery
10-61 Jackson Avenue
Hunters Point, Queens

For the past seven months, Chance Ecologies has brought together a group of artists to explore the wilderness of Hunter's Point South, Queens.

The post industrial site stood in disuse for 35 years, allowing for a complex, contemporary ecology to develop.

Over the course of the summer 2015, Chance Ecologies organized a series of art events, workshops and happenings that invited the public to experience the site prior to being completely leveled in October 2015, as part of the Hunters Point South housing development project.

Please join Chance Ecologies to view a diverse collection of new pieces by 17 different artists, which will include video, photo, sound and sculpture installations, zines, books, walks, talks and more, looking at this unique part of New York City's waterfront.

Curated by: Catherine Grau, Nathan Kensinger, Stephen Zacks

More info:
http://chancecologies.org/
http://www.radiatorarts.com/chance-ecologies/

NYRR Open Run

Saturdays at 9am

Astoria Park
19th Street and Hoyt Ave
Meet at the Field House next to the Track
Astoria, Queens

New York Road Runners (NYRR) Open Run is a new community-based initiative, bringing free weekly runs and walks to local neighborhood parks, all over NYC.

Open to all ages and experience levels. Walkers, strollers, and dogs on leash are welcome. No advance registration required.

More info:
http://openrun.nyrr.org/#Astoria-Park

Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition

Daily through March 13, 2016

Socrates Sculpture Park
Vernon Blvd & Broadway
Ravenswood, Queens

Fifteen years ago Socrates Sculpture Park inaugurated the Emerging Artist Fellowship (EAF) Exhibition and launched what would become an annual exhibition of “artists to watch.”

This year’s Emerging Artist Fellows were selected through a highly competitive process that attracted over 350 applications, a record number for the program.
The 2015 Emerging Artist Fellows are: Kenseth Armstead, Charlotte Becket & Roger Sayre, José Carlos Casado, Torkwase Dyson, Carla Edwards, Davey Hawkins, Lena Henke, David Horvitz, Charlotte Hyzy, Melanie McLain, Kirsten Nelson, Freya Powell, Leah Raintree, Aaron Suggs, and Noa Younse.

As the culmination of a sought-after fellowship program, the EAF Exhibition is distinct in its commitment to emphasize individual artist projects. Rather than present an overarching theme, the exhibition highlights the singularity of each artist’s vision and subject matter, while providing critical consideration on diverse subjects, processes, and the specificities of site.

More info HERE.

Mobile Library at Hunters Point

Daily Until the Library Opens!

QUEENS LIBRARY & FRIENDS OF THE HUNTERS POINT LIBRARY PRESENT "THE SOLAR POWERED LIBRARY" IN GANTRY PLAZA STATE PARK!
Center Blvd & 48th Avenue
Hunters Point, Queens

Beginning May 31st and continuing on Saturdays, The Mobile Library will be parked each Saturday at Gantry State Park, Vernon Boulevard at 48th Avenue, from 8:30 – 5:30 to offer books and materials for all ages for loan as well as digital downloads onsite and special library offerings.

The Mobile Library will be on site, rain or shine, except during holidays.