New York Places, Organizations, Events

Places

• Parks
  • Tompkins Sq. Park southwest corner - managed by Friends of Tompkins Square Park(vol)
  • Inwood Hill
  • Swindler Cove
  • Pelham Bay Park
  • Alley Park
  • Marine Park(vol)
  • Forest Park
  • Brower Park - monarch garden
  • Prospect Park
  • Battery Park - food forest
  • Roosevelt Island Manhattan Healing Forest (Miyawaki forest)
  • Randall's Island Native Plant Garden
  • The High Line
  • Seward Park native plant garden
  • Stuy Cove Park / Solar1
  • Hudson River Pier 26
• Community gardens(vol)
  • La Plaza Cultural
  • El Jardin del Paraiso
  • Green Oasis
  • Francisco 'Pancho' Ramos
  • 6B
  • 6BC
  • Narrows Botanical Garden
  • Lentol Garden - woodland example
  • EL garden - pawpaws, community
  • McCarren Demo Garden
  • Down to earth - bokashi composting - shig matsukawa
  • Access garden
  • Ridgewood Community Garden
  • Oko Farms Aquaponic
• Rooftop gardens
  • Kingsland wildflowers(vol)
• Publicly available private gardens
  • NYBG
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  • Naval cemetery landscape
  • Greenwood Cemetery
  • Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3
  • NYU Pratt Textile Dye Garden
• Waterways / waterfronts
  • Newtown Creek (vol)
  • Gowanus Canal (vol)
  • Spuyten Duyvil Creek
  • Oakland Lake
• Urban farms
  • Red hook urban farm (vol)

Organizations

• LES Ecology Center(vol)
  • Master Composter
• NYC Parks(vol)
• GrowNYC
• NYC Pollinator Working Group
• Gowanus Canal Conservancy(vol)
• Newtown Creek Alliance(vol)
• City Parks Foundation
• Brooklyn Greenway Initiative
• TreesNY
  • Citizen Pruner
• LUNGS
• MORUS
• New Yorkers for Parks
• RAIN Coalition
• Forest for All NYC
• Natural Areas Conservancy
• Shorakapok Earthkeepers (Inwood Hill Park)

Events

• Creatures nyc mailing list
• NYC Parks event list

Educational Programs

• NYC Parks Super Steward
  • Fire Hydrant permit + training for Super Stewards (offered in spring)
• TreesNY Citizen Pruner
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden BUG (Brooklyn Urban Gardener)