The landmarked diving platforms of the Astoria Pool diving pool.
SAVE THE DATE!
Wednesday
February 20th at 6:30pm
Astoria World Manor
25-22 Astoria Blvd
Astoria, Queens
The NYC Department of Parks and Recreation will present the Schematic Design for the proposed performance space in the Astoria Pool Diving Pool.
All community members are encouraged to attend.
Here is What's Happening This Week:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4th:
Forgotten New York:
Old Astoria Village
7pm
Greater Astoria Historical Society
35-20 Broadway, 4th Floor
Astoria, Queens
The Greater Astoria Historical Society presents this Forgotten NY talk about Old Astoria Village.
Astoria‘s pedigree dates to the mid-1600s, when William Hallett received a grant for the area surrounding what is now Hallett‘s Cove by Peter Stuyvesant. However, the oldest structures in the region date to the mid-1800s, after fur merchant Stephen Ailing Halsey had incorporated the village in 1839.
Astoria was named for John Jacob Astor, an entrepreneur and real estate tycoon, he had become the wealthiest man in America by 1840 with a net worth of over $40 million.
This special presentation will take a special look at Astoria Village, quickly vanishing to new housing and development.
Sunnyside Community Services
43-31 39th St., First Floor
Sunnyside, Queens.
Learn about what is happening in your community!
Community Board 2 represents the areas of Sunnyside, Woodside, Long Island City a portion of West Maspeth. The district is bounded on the north by Queens Plaza North, the northern property line of the Sunnyside Rail Yard and Northern Boulevard; on the east by the Con Rail property; on the south by Calamus, Maurice and Maspeth Avenues and Newtown Creek; the East River to the west.
FRIENDS OF GANTRY NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS WANT YOUR INPUT!
The small playground on Southeast corner of 48th Avenue and 5th Street in Hunters Point has been padlocked for a couple of years now for safety reasons.
The playground included a sandbox for toddlers and is right next to a handball court.
Friends of Gantry has secured the pro bono services of a landscape architect to develop a new design for that area.
What would you like to see there? It is a small area compared to other parts of the park and measures approximately 31' x 47' and is gated.
Waterfront Vision Plan for Astoria & Long Island City, Queens
On Thursday, June 16th, we celebrated the release of The Waterfront Vision Plan for Astoria & Long Island City, Queens at the Noguchi Museum!
The Waterfront Vision Plan was created for the community and by the community with Green Shores NYC & The Trust for Public Land.
In the summer and fall of 2010, hundreds of Western Queens residents came together to participate in seven neighborhood listening sessions, two area-wide brainstorming sessions and a waterfront bus tour generating more than a thousand comments, ideas and solutions for creating a more connected, useful and beautiful waterfront.
BIG!Compost, a program of Build It Green!NYC, is a community-scale composting network, that works to increase capacity for, acceptance of, and participation in composting in western Queens. We serve the public by hosting weekly and event-specific food scrap drop-offs, training community members in urban composting best practices, and providing high-quality compost to amend our city’s soils. The finished compost is used in community gardens, on street trees, and in public beautification projects.
Instead of adding your food scraps to the landfill, you can drop them off at one of BIG! Compost's weekly drop off locations:
Sunday:
9am to Noon
Jackson Heights Greenmarket
34th Ave at 77th Street
Jackson Heights, Queens
Monday:
8-10am
Queens Library Steinway Branch
Through March 22, 2013
21-45 31st Street
Astoria, Queens
Saturday:
9am-12pm
Sunnyside Greenmarket
June 2 to December 22
Skillman Ave between 42 & 43 Streets
Sunnyside, Queens
10am to 2pm
Long Island City CSA, Hour Children
Nov 7, Dec 1, 15, Jan 5, 19 & Feb 2
36-49 11th Street (btwn 36 & 37th Aves)
Long Island City, Queens
To learn more about BIG! Compost and to get involved, email: compost@bignyc.org Times and schedule are subject to change. For up-to-date information, visit: http://bignyc.org/drop-sites
Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Visitor Center General Public Visiting Hours
Saturdays
9am to 3pm
Visitor Center at Newtown Creek
329 Greenpoint Avenue
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
The Visitor Center at Newtown Creek tells the story of New York City’s water and wastewater systems. Located at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (WTP), one of New York City's 14 treatment plants, the Visitor Center features DEP employees who narrate the cycle of water from water supply to distribution, wastewater treatment, and harbor water quality. This fascinating new facility will help you learn about the one billion gallons of water New Yorkers use every day, the thousands of miles of pipes, aqueducts, and water mains, and the responsibilities, through the eyes of our dedicated workforce, to serve New Yorkers.
Socrates Sculpture Park
Broadway & Vernon Blvd
Long Island City, Queens
Socrates Sculpture Park presents the opening of EAF12: 2012 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition.
EAF12 features new works by the Park's current resident artists. Each year, Socrates Sculpture Park selects artists to produce outdoor artworks within the Park. Reflective of our time, these artists are making public sculptures that are subtly mysterious, visually compelling, and, at times, provocative. The economy, spirituality, Americana, language, and our built/natural world are subjects explored in this presentation of emerging artists to watch. Rather than being a zeitgeist or thematic exhibition, each artist has a distinct artwork (and in some cases performance) that embodies his or her individuality, passion, and exploration of art in the public sphere. Projects include a 1965 Ford Mustang painted white with corn rowed racing stripes, slabs of cast concrete snapped from compression, a transparent Buddha and a stunning 30 foot flag pole woven with security straps are among the sculptures in the exhibition.
Green Shores NYC works to enliven the Astoria-Long Island City waterfront by caring for and advocating for safe public parks, green spaces, street trees, waterways and a waterfront greenway. Visit us online at: www.greenshoresnyc.org
To include your event on our updates and calendar, please email: mail@greenshoresnyc.org and put "EVENTS" in the subject line.
