Happy New Year! We hope that you had a wonderful holiday season. Thank you to everyone that participated in one of our many cleanup and service days

       
Happy 2013

Happy New Year!

We hope that you had a wonderful holiday season.

Thank you to everyone that participated in one of our many cleanup and service days in 2012. For those that joined in the fun at Shorefest, paddled in the Cove with the LIC Boathouse, participated in the LIC Bike Parade or worked out on the Overlook in Astoria Park with the Astoria Park Alliance, we thank you for coming out and enlivening our waterfront!

Shout out and gratitude to our member organizations and community partners:
Astoria Park Alliance, Friends of Queensbridge Park, Long Island City Community Boathouse, Partnerships for Parks, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, BIG!NYC, BIG!Compost, Socrates Sculpture Park, Friends of Gantry, Greater Astoria Historical Society, NY Anti-Crime Agency, New York Cares, Astoria Houses Tenants Association, Greening Western Queens, Trust for Public Land, New York Restoration Project, Jacob Riis Settlement House, Sweet Afton, We Heart Astoria, Queens Green Drinks and MANY more for helping to fulfill our mission of a greener, cleaner, more accessible and connected Western Queens Waterfront!

We are busily planning our calendar of events and volunteer projects for the spring, summer and fall months and we want to hear from YOU about what types of programming or projects you would like to see us take on in 2013.

Please send ideas or suggestions to: mail@greenshoresnyc.org

Here's to a great 2013!

See you on the waterfront,
Green Shores NYC

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Here is What's Happening This Week:

TUESDAY, JANUARY 8th:

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Astoria Park Alliance Monthly Meeting

6:30 pm

Steinway Reformed Church
41st Street & Ditmars Blvd in Astoria, Queens

ALL are welcome at the Astoria Park Alliance's monthly meeting!
Learn about upcoming events and how to get involved in caring for Western Queens' largest park!

For more information, visit:
http://astoriaparkalliance.blogspot.com/

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9th:

PEPSI COLA SIGN

Friends of Gantry Neighborhood Parks General Membership Meeting

7-9pm

Citylights Building
4-74 48th Avenue
Third Floor Activity Room
Hunters Point, Queens

All are welcome at the Friends of Gantry general membership meeting. Learn more about how you can get involved in caring for the gardens in this waterfront State Park and more!

www.friendsofgantry.org

Saturday, January 12th & Sunday, January 13th:

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TREECYCLE at MULCHFEST 2013!

Chip in! Mulch your tree! Help NYC grow!

10am to 2pm

Astoria Park Parking Lot
19th Street and Hoyt Avenue North
Astoria, Queens

Bring your holiday tree to ASTORIA PARK to be recycled into mulch that will nourish plantings across the city!

Join the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. These wood chips are used to nourish trees and plants on streets and gardens citywide. Or, take home your very own bag of mulch to use in your backyard or to make a winter bed for a street tree.

Please remember to remove all lights and ornaments before bringing your tree or wreath to MULCHFEST.

Biodegradable bags will be provided if you wish to take home some free mulch.

MULCHFEST in Astoria Park is co-sponsored by Green Shores NYC, the Astoria Park Alliance & Partnerships for Parks.

For additional site and for more information, visit:
http://www.nycgovparks.org/services/mulchfest/mulchfest.htm

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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.

Send your feedback to: Info@FriendsofGantry.org

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Waterfront Vision Plan for Astoria & Long Island City, Queens

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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.

You can view the Waterfront Vision Plan by visiting: www.greenshoresnyc.org

Copies of the plan can be picked up at the Noguchi Museum.

Stay tuned for information about how we will work to make the ideas in the Plan a reality!

For more information, email: greenshoresnyc@yahoo.com

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ONGOING:

BIG! COMPOST

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

1-3pm
Queens Library Broadway Branch
40-20 Broadway
Astoria, 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 Trtmnt Plant

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.

For more information, go here.

EAF 2012

Emerging Artists Fellowship Exhibition

Daily through March 31, 2013

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.

More info: www.socratessculpturepark.org

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HELLGATE PHOTO

Shore Boulevard and the Hellgate Bridge.

IT'S YOUR WATERFRONT!

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.

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