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A Thousand Letters Delivered to Mayor de Blasio to Save Our Garden, Please Keep Them Coming!
On May 25, Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden volunteers joined New Yorkers for Parks and parks users, gardeners and advocates from across the city to make sure that the mayor and city council know that we need quality parks and open space.
Garden volunteers submitted nearly a thousand of YOUR letters to the mayor opposing New York City’s plan to issue a Request for Proposal to developers to build affordable housing that would destroy Elizabeth Street Garden.
We still need your help:
- Write the mayor and forward this action to your neighbors and friends asking them to write a letter too.
- Share this tweet and Facebook post.
- Join the discussion on social media. Use #elizabethstreetgarden and #ESGSaveOurGarden.
Thanks to our supporters who have already sent letters to the mayor!
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Garden Supporters at City Hall
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This Weekend, Public & Free: Community Potluck & BBQ, Live Music Sunday and Citibabes' Infant Class
Movement & Music for Infants With Citibabes — Saturday, June 4, 11 – 11:30 a.m.
This children's class, hosted by neighborhood Citibabes centers on an infant's physical, cognitive and social development through age-appropriate play. Best for children through 12 months old.
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Invite your friends and neighbors to participate in a potluck and barbecue and enjoy music and fun activities!
Please share a dish with others: bring an appetizer, salad or side if your last name begins with A – S and a dessert if your last name begins with T – Z. Shared dishes need not feed everyone; a contribution of 6 – 10 servings is plenty. Burgers and hot dogs will be provided by Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden. No alcoholic beverages please.
For additional info or to help, please email friends@elizabethstreetgarden.org
Live Music Sunday — Sunday, June 5, 4 – 6 p.m.
Our biweekly summer concert series begins Sunday. Don’t miss Stephan Timonier and Leffie Louise performing this weekend in the Garden.
Volunteer Orientation — Wednesday, June 8, 5:30 – 6 p.m.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email volunteer@elizabethstreetgarden.org.
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Next Week: Memoir Writing Workshop & Weekly Children's Music
Seeds of a Memoir Writing Workshop —
Tuesdays, June 7, June 28, July 12, and July 26, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
This workshop, led by Barbara Horn, English professor emerita at Nassau Community College, includes exercises that help us discover, reflect, recall and create. With the Garden as backdrop, participants – especially seniors – are encouraged to remember long-ago and perhaps far-away places as they begin work on memoir writing. Reading pieces with other members is encouraged but not required.
Weekly Children's Music — Tuesdays, 11 – 11:30 a.m.
Live music, dancing, bubbles and fun with volunteers actress-singer Lauren Ruff and guitarist Pete Armstrong. We’ll provide music and percussion instruments for your little ones to sing, dance or play along. Bring the family and pack a picnic lunch for afterward.
Kids of all ages are welcome, but the music is geared especially towards newborns through 4-year-olds.
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Coming Up in June
All Elizabeth Street Garden activities and events are open to the public and FREE. For up-to-date details, check out the Garden calendar.
Seeds of a Memoir Writing Workshop — Tuesday, June 7, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Ladybug Release — Saturday, June 18, 12:30 p.m.
Live Music Sunday — Sunday, June 19, 4 – 6 p.m.
Kids' Dragon Defense League With McNally Jackson Books —
Saturday, June 25, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Seeds of a Memoir Writing Workshop — Tuesday, June 28, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Movie Night: "Dragon" (2011) — Wednesday, June 29, 8:30 p.m.
Weekly in the Garden
Community Gardening — Saturdays, 10 a.m. – Noon
Vinyasa Yoga — Sundays, 11 a.m. – Noon
Children's Music — Tuesdays, 11 – 11:30 a.m.
Kids' Yoga — Wednesdays, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Children's Storytime — Thursdays, 10:30 – 11 a.m.
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Thursdays Children's Storytime
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Tree Stewardship at Petrosino Square
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Neighborhood P.S. 1 students dig up worms...
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...and tie down daffodils planted in fall.
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Garden Hours
Garden Open Daily
10 a.m. – 6 p.m., weather permitting.
Volunteers work to keep the Garden open daily year-round.
Email volunteer@elizabethstreetgarden.org to help.
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Sundays Vinyasa Yoga
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