Agenda:
Opening Remarks
Acting Borough Commissioner – Ralph Musolino
Operations Park Manager – Eddie Rodriguez
Capital Steve Simon, Manhattan Chief of Staff
PEP-Capt. Charles St. Louis
NYPD – Capt. Michael Lam / Det. Rodney Rosado
Community Board 3 – Susan Stetzer, District Manager
Partnerships for Parks – Ted Enoch, Senior Program Director
Sara Roosevelt Park Coalition – K Webster
Sara D. Roosevelt Park Alliance- Anli Liu
Bob with Iresema and K
Parks Sara Roosevelt Park Meeting
Our Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition report:
Thank you Ralph. You’ve been one of our very best Parks leaders over decades and we appreciate it. And congratulations to Commissioner Shimamura.
I’m going to keep this to 5 minutes
Our role is/has been to build respectful Partnerships to encourage a positive, activated park for 40+ years
Because activated use is what makes a park safer.
We want to thank ground Parks staff – including our former/current Parks Managers and we’d like to thank Partnerships for Parks, our 5th Pct and CB3.
Who activates us:
Kim Fong of the BRC and her staff, MKG’s events like Juneteenth, Halloween, Dog Halloween, University Settlement who recently posted flyers on locations of warming sites. MKG posting info for immigrants here. AAFE workshops nearby. The Hua Mei Birders (Tommy and Tony especially) and MKG (both for 40 years), The 5th Pcts Chan and Smith and their Youth Explorers, The Alliance taking on below Grand, ALL the individual volunteer garden plots north/south of Delancey led by Kate, Rob, Tessa, and Irit. FABnyc backing Debra Jeffreys-Glass/MKG to honor the African burial ground that was here. FABnyc/ThinkChinatown! Arts with lighting – that made the park safer too. The Remote Theater Project’s performances in the Pit, including Walking Amal and of course Chinatown Partnership’s Wellington Chen for always coming through with help. We are grateful for the Chinese Progressive Association voter projects, the schools here, the soccer organizations especially the grandfathered ones. And all the event creators in the Pit.
We have children’s programming throughout the season (ladybug, butterfly/turtle releases), chicken care, bird walks, Thx to Partnerships we held a Panel of the volunteer gardeners working here.
The Tenement Museum’s partnership means we are hyper aware of our histories. We’ve installed markers to denote this including: in particular that this entire area was once known as the “Land of the Blacks” because formerly enslaved Black land owners farmed here in 1647. We thank Wei Tchou who recently wrote in Places Journal about this park.
We have clothes distribution thank you Bob. We have many food and arts providers who volunteer here such as Sea of Galilee Church and Inside Change from Within.
Upcoming with Partnerships and Ted Enoch we’ll hold a panel of providers in and around this park to assist our communities to learn who is trying to tackle homelessness and/or poverty daily/weekly Jeff of the Bellevue van, Marcellous of City Relief, Jose of the Dept of Ed food trucks.
We intend to have an information panel on affordable housing focused on younger people and elders
We intend to create a Native marker/garden to honor the LENAPE legacy.
And this park has always been home to Immigrant communities -eventually we want to acknowledgement all people who had/have historic connections here to build understanding across artificial barriers.
Our asks:
Stanton Building – There is not one youth center despite having four Parks buildings. 7 high schools one jr high abutting this park.
PEP in playgrounds for the next period of time.
We’d like to see the 5th Pct reactivate Community Policing
Needle boxes for safe disposal of needles everywhere. Thank you Housing Works.
We need precisely targeted encampment moving when in occur– these can’t be in spaces near playgrounds, schools, nor in front of the BRC senior center. We need our providers to help. Signage, talking to folks…etc..
We don’t have to be shitty about it.
Housing/services for formerly and current homeless people. Pushing them out to nowhere doesn’t help.
Communications Building at Broome –-how could it better be useful to this park?
Dogs off leash in playgrounds/sports fields
Stolen Goods market – we have sellers and the buyers keep it lucrative
Speakers invited on behalf of the Coalition:
Kim Fong BRC salt thanks, and Francisco plowed.
Debra/Bob MKG
Melissa Aase CEO University Settlement
Rob, Tessa, Kate, K – outside of mkg gardens.
Fran Rivington Playground
Halloween in M’Finda Kalunga Garden
From Jane our incredible organizer (and superhero Librarian):
Community Board 3 Resolution on Policies Regarding Agency Services for Street Homeless
Many of our Street Homeless help out in this Park. Proud of CB3 commitment to humane treatment as we find effective ways to keep everyone safe.
Closing of HALO Memorial At The M’Finda Kalunga Garden
Help remember those who came before us….Create a ribbon for our fence with messages of remembrance and hope
Opening Remarks: Debra Jeffreys-Glass
Libations: Tracy L. Gray
Performance: Robert Bryan
The “Old Guard”
With thanks to:
Bob Humber & Kate Fitzgerald: Head Gardeners MKG
MKG community volunteers
K Webster and the sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition
Speakers and performances: Robert Bryan, Tracy L Gray and Asha Futterman
Emanuel Oni: HALO artist
Ryan Gilliam and the FABnyc Team
John Sloane and the Buro Happold Team
Brian Cohen and Kyle Luntz and the BEAM Center Team
Ted Enoch, Sayde Wilson and Pilar Maschi Partnerships for Parks and Catalyst Program
Tricia Shimamura, NYC Parks Manhattan Commissioner and the Manhattan Team
Terese Flores, NYC Parks, District 3 Regional Manager
Farewell (For now!) Closing of HALO Memorial At The M’Finda Kalunga Garden
Overview
It’s My Park Day in M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden
Many Thanks to GreenThumb and Partnership for Parks Coordinators and Jen for organizing the MKGarden team (includingEresimapictured here) !
Roni-Sue’s Chocolates! Neighborhood Chocolatier! Open House Tonight!
Roni-Sue’s Chocolates! Neighborhood Chocolatier! Open House Thursday 10/30, 5-9pm
Celebrating their 18th Anniversary!
Secret chocolate bar stash & serving up slices of Stretch Pizza and bubbly to go with it! It was delicious!!
That’s Roni Sue in the back!
Partnerships for Park Community Connections Social
Good to see many old and new friends.
Last Mile Delivery Site. Bait and Switch to Amazon Across from Senior Center and Our Park. In an Environmental Justice Zone
According to a December 2021 investigation by Consumer Reports, companies like Amazon have opened up the vast majority of last-mile logistics facilities in communities of color that have long suffered disparate environmental harms like increased rates of air pollution, noise, and asthma.
There are bills before the NYC Council to prevent these from clustering in low-income neighborhoods or NYC Parks:
- Last-mile zoning text amendment – The special permit would set forth the following condition (among others):
- Any last-mile warehouse must be at least 1,000 feet from any school, park, nursing home, or public housing development.
Actions:
CONTACT:
Local Elected officials:
Senator Kavanagh Phone: 212-298-5565
AM Grace Lee 250 Broadway Suite 2232 212-312-1420
CM Marte (who is already engaged on this matter – thanks Max and team!) 65 East Broadway New York, NY 10002 Phone: 212-587-3159
Community Board 3, Manhattan
Phone: 212-533-5300
Email: mn03@cb.nyc.gov
File a Complaint Online
“The loading zone currently on Forsyth St. at the corner of Delancey (between Delancey and Rivington) should be moved around the corner to Delancey St at the corner of Forsyth (between Eldridge and Forsyth Sts). The large truck traffic and concentration of delivery workers on the sidewalk on Forsyth St. during deliveries creates an excess of noise, emissions (from trucks left idling), and crowding on the sidewalk that are disruptive to residents. The delivery trucks are wide enough to potentially obstruct the movement of ambulances onto Forsyth St, where there is a medical facility with an ambulance bay. Delancey St. is a commercial thoroughfare with a very wide sidewalk where noise, emissions, and sidewalk crowding will be far less disruptive to the community, and add needed commercial activity in a stretch of sidewalk that is poorly-lit, mostly empty, and invites activities such as drug use and sidewalk sleeping. The business that the loading zone on Forsyth St. currently serves has doors that open onto Delancey, so its operations would not be disrupted by shifting the loading zone location from Forsyth to Delancey.”
Add: Companies like Amazon have opened up the vast majority of last-mile logistics facilities in communities of color that have long suffered disparate environmental harms like increased rates of air pollution, noise, and asthma
Advocates Unveil Actions to Rein In Unplanned Clustering Of Last-Mile Logistics Facilities
Three new bills introduced by the Last-Mile Coalition NYC. New York City Council Member Alexa Avilés and co-sponsored by Council Members Gutiérrez, Nurse, Brooks-Powers, Won, Hanif and Restler, as well as Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso.
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