SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, Oct. 24 | Third Annual Harvest Festival

Start your Halloween early, show your support for Elizabeth Street Garden and celebrate at our third annual Harvest Festival.

Third Annual Elizabeth Street Garden Harvest Festival —
Saturday, Oct. 24, Noon – 4:00 p.m. (Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 25)

Enjoy a day of FREE, fun activities for all ages, live music, and lite bites and refreshments donated by neighborhood businesses. Costumes encouraged!

Highlights: Street Tree Care Day, LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival, Live Music Sundays & Tai Chi Outdoors

Neighborhood Street Tree Care Day

Thank you to everyone who came out on Sept. 27 and participated in our MillionTreesNYC-funded neighborhood community service day. Together, nearly 50 volunteers, friends and family members cleaned up, mulched and watered 150-plus beloved street trees surrounding Elizabeth Street Garden, including those in DeSalvio Playground.

If you are a resident, building owner or local business that would like to help care for and "adopt" a tree in front of your building (It's easy!), please let us know by emailing friends@elizabethstreetgarden.org.

Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden received a 2015 MillionTreesNYC Mini-Grant — one of ten and and the only one awarded in Manhattan. MillionTreesNYC is a PlaNYC initiative with NYC Parks and New York Restoration Project.

LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival & Live Music Sundays

The weekend also included music performances in the Garden as part of the fourth annual Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS) Harvest Arts Festival. Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden thanks LUNGS founder Charles Krezell for organizing this successful weekend event throughout 38 member gardens.

Thanks to singer-composer and Garden volunteer Kim Kalesti who brought her joyful spirit to sing, musicians Foley, Justin Dean Thomas and Beau, and all of the artists who performed in the Garden this season.

Chinatown YMCA held the last weekly Tai Chi Outdoors class this season in the Garden, and we thank them and instructor Tina C. Zhang for their expertise and commitment to community involvement and participation.

It has been a terrific opportunity to partner with the Chinatown YMCA as part of the Garden's wellness curriculum. We look forward to collaborating again.

Recent Garden Press
 

• Read The Villager article from Oct. 1: “Squadron comes out against housing on Elizabeth St. Garden”
• Read The Villager article from Oct. 1: “Code Green! C.B. 2 makes emergency plea to save Eliz. St. Garden”
• Read Curbed New York article from Sept. 28: “Board Protests Affordable Housing at Elizabeth Street Garden”
• Read DNAinfo article from Sept. 28: “City’s Stance on Elizabeth Street Garden Will Jeopardize Pier 40, CB2 Says”
• Read The Villager editorial from Sept. 24: “Gardens cultivate our livability and community”
• Read The Villager article from Sept. 24: “A hard row to hoe: Garden or housing at Little Italy lot?”
• Read The New York Times article from Sept. 23: "Tumult in a Manhattan Oasis Over an Affordable Housing Plan"
• Read DNAinfo article from Sept. 23: “Local Seniors Want Affordable Housing Over Elizabeth Street Garden”