Join your neighbors to spruce up city’s SPRING GREENING open spaces

t least 90 parks will par- land was donated to the North- worked with Liberty Lands’ or- Aticipate in Saturday’s LOVE ern Liberties Neighborhood As- ganizers to create a sustainable Yo ur Park event, sociation, which has storm water management sys- getting tender lov- nurtured the 2-acre tem, which prevents rain runoff ing care from vol- If you want to volun- multi-use park that from overwhelming the city’s unteers committed teer on Saturday — brightens 3rd Street sewer system. to keeping Philadel- or any time through- today. Here’s how it works: Cap- out the year — to phia’s green spaces Among the park’s tured rainwater runoff moves make your neighbor- features are picnic through an inlet on 3rd Street beautiful. hood park a greener, Liberty Lands more welcoming tables and benches, a and travels under the side- on 3rd Street in space, register at playground, a butterfly walk to be funneled into a rain Northern Liberties gpcares.com. For a garden, two murals, a garden. It then drains into an is one of them. list of participating Native American herb underground cistern, so that Built on an in- parks, visit garden and more than gardeners can use it to irrigate dustrial brownfield phsonline.org 180 trees. The neigh- the park’s community — the site of the or call 215-988-1611. borhood association garden plots. ★ long-gone Burk hosts several musical Brothers Tannery festivals there each — the soil was deemed safe after year and during the summer the Environmental Protection hosts a lawn chair drive-in movie Agency removed waste nearly series. 20 years ago. After development This eco-friendly park has efforts failed in the mid-’90s, the some undercover features, too. Just last year the Pennsylvania Horti- cultural Society Germantown 8 26 photos: ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff photographer

St. A wooden shed houses gardening supplies. Ave. 20 Ridge Ave.

20th 33 53 Ave. 48 58 86 85 Castor 19 St. Bardascino Park Fairview Park Nicetown Park 44 31 41 39 37 1 Barkan Park Fernhill Park Overington Park 21 8th 69 47 28 90 61 Beck Park Fisher Park Pa. Center for Adapted Sports 56 32 62 42 Belmont Mansion Fotterall Square Palmer Park 95 43 St. Belmont Stables Gold Star Park Paolone Park St. Ave.

25 13 3rd Benson Park Guerin Rec Center Papa Playground The city park 71 Blue Bell Inn Happy Hollow Playground Penn Treaty Park 5 4 72 5029 Broad34 30 Frankford known as Liberty Lancaster 9 Burholme Park Hart Park Powers Park Lands provides Cecil 68 Campbell Square Historic Rittenhouse Town Pretzel Park 80 B. Moore Ave. 49 70 a tree-lined open 59 Ave. 76 64 75 Girard Ave. 38 Capitolo Playground Howard Street Park Pulaski Park space at 3rd and 66Girard11 16 63 Carroll Park Howell Park Reyburn Park American streets Ave. 18 51 67 74 Cedar Park Hunting Park Ridgeland Mansion in Northern Market St. 76 Vine 22 27 St. Chamounix Equestrian Center Inn Yard Park Rittenhouse Square Liberties. Park 52 2 77 cofounder Dennis 12 78 73 Chew Playground Ivy RIdge Green River Field 17 79 82 6 55 Haugh created the 46 15 Cianfrani Park Jefferson Square Park Royal Gardens “Cinema Verde” 14 1 87 3 Ave. 84 89 35 Clara Muhammad Square Julian F. Abele Park Saunders Park Greene mural (above). 23 10 60 65 Clark Park Kay Park Schuylkill Banks The park boasts a 81 Woodland 36 45 Clemente Park Kemble Park Schuylkill River Park staging area (left) 24 Ave.83 88 40 7 Passyunk 54 57 Clifford Park Konrad Square Seger Park and community Cliveden Park Laurel Hill Mansion Shofuso Japanese House garden plots. Cloverly Park Liberty Lands Shot Tower Playground Cobbs Creek CEEC Malcolm X Park Starr Garden Columbus Square Manayunk Canal & Towpath Stephen Girard Park Connell Park Marconi Plaza Stinger Square Conshohocken-Windmere Mario Lanza Park Taras Shevchenko Park Courtesy Stables McMichael Park Vernon Park Coxe Park Mifflin Square Weccacoe Playground Disston Park Monastery Complex Weinberg Park Flowers brighten the park. East Park at Lemon Hill Morris Park Wharton Square Fairhill Square Moyamensing Point Wissahickon Neighbors Park PAGE 40 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2010