Parks Post Sept./Oct. 2009

City of New York • Parks & Recreation Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor • Adrian Benepe, Commissioner Borough Beat Photo of the Month

This fall, help MillionTreesNYC continue toward its goal of planting one million trees across over the next eight years. Since 2007, nearly 250,000 trees have been planted by volunteers, private partners, community organizations and more. You can take part by joining us on October 24 when New Yorkers throughout the five boroughs plant 20,000 trees in parks and other public spaces for It’s My Park! Day. Help make our city an even more beautiful and comfortable place to live, work, and visit.

See you in the Parks! A beach volleyball player dives to make a play at the 15th annual Citywide Beach Volleyball Tournament on Coney Island.

Photo by Malcolm Pinckney Adrian Benepe, Commissioner Julius Spiegel, Brooklyn Commissioner

Citywide Spotlight School’s In! Find a Parks Afterschool Program Near You!

On any afternoon, visit one of the 35 Parks Afterschool locations Registration is available from September through June. For and you will see children ages 6 to 13 participating in a wide variety more information about the Parks Afterschool Program, call (212) 360-3333. To register your child, contact your nearest of recreational, cultural, and educational programs. Three thousand recreation center. children in the City of New York are served by the Parks Afterschool Program between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday through Fri- Brownsville Red Hook 1555 Linden Blvd. 155 Bay Street day, the time when school-aged children are most in need of being in safe, supportive environments. Parks Afterschool youth receive Herbert Von King St. John’s homework help, participate in fitness activities, and explore arts 670 Lafayette 1251 Prospect Place

& culture opportunities. Parks Afterschool programs complement Metropolitan Pool Sunset Park what children are learning in schools and strengthen their sense of 261 Bedford Avenue 43rd Street & 7th Avenue belonging to the communities in which they live.

www.nyc.gov/parks Calendar Feature of the Month SEPTEMBER • OCTOBER 2009 Parks Breaks Ground on Phase One of

Brooklyn BookFest This past summer, ground was broken on the first phase of Bushwick Columbus Park Inlet Park on Kent Avenue between North 9th and North 10th Streets in Sun., September 13 • 10:00 a.m. the Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods of Brooklyn. This is the

first section of the 28-acre Bushwick Inlet Park, envisioned in the 2005 Apple Festival Wyckoff Farmhouse waterfront rezoning of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, and it is part of Sun., September 20 • 12:00 p.m. Mayor Bloomberg’s broader effort to transform the City’s waterfront and open it up to all New Yorkers. Harvest Festival Old Stone House The first phase of Bushwick Inlet Park will include the construction of a Sun., October 18 • 11:00 a.m. synthetic turf multipurpose field for soccer, football, lacrosse, field hock-

ey, rugby, and ultimate frisbee. Funded with $7.1 million from the City, the Haunted Halloween Walk Marine Park field stretches from North 9th Street to North 10th Street, between Kent Sat., October 24 • 1:00 p.m. Avenue and the East River. The site, a former rental car storage lot, is situated at the southern end of the planned park, and is adjacent to East It’s My Park! Day River State Park. The first phase of the park is expected to be completed Citywide in winter 2010. Sat., October 24 • 9:00 a.m.

Halloween Happenings Owl’s Head Park Did you know? Sat., October 31 • 2:00 p.m. … You can now submit forestry service requests online! Log on to the Parks website to report a damaged or dead tree, request a new street tree, notify Parks of overgrown trees or branches, or let us know about an undesirable root, sewer, or sidewalk condition. Visit www.nyc.gov/parks to learn more! Current Events

What’s going on in my park this weekend?

How do I request a tree for my street? How can I report a problem in a park? Parks Commissioner Benepe, Brooklyn Young anglers drop a line in the Prospect For answers Borough President Marty Markowitz and Park Lake for the 62nd annual Macy’s to these questions and more, City Council Member Lewis A. Fidler join Fishing Contest. visit www.nyc.gov/parks professional cricketers to cut the ribbon or call 311. on a new regulation-sized cricket field in Photo by Malcolm Pinckney Canarsie Park. Photo by Daniel Avila www.nyc.gov/parks 8