Unimaginable Terrestrials
A collision sends a shockwave.
I will shake anything that’s in my way.
And as I rattle space and time
I leave it all behind,
Everything we’ve ever known.
Unimaginable.
Wandering the dark night sky,
Towards infinity I fly.
Beyond the planets and the stars
The asteroids and meteors.
Beyond the galaxies we’ve named,
And all the ones we’ve yet to tame,
I go, I go and go and go.
Unimaginable.
And I don’t care if I’m alone in this
And nobody believes.
I will swim this sky forever,
I will always feel the breeze.
When everything that is familiar
Fades to black and turns to cold,
I will listen on in wonder.
Unimaginable.
Terrestrials: Just the Songs, released November 3, 2022
Composed/ Preformed by Alan Goffinski
https://wnycstudios.bandcamp.com/track/unimaginable
Our Sunflower Plot
Created during the ROAR Festival.
Honoring the brave people of Ukraine.
Emilyn L. Brown’s History of the African Burial Ground at Chrystie Street Sara Roosevelt Park
Emlyn L. Brown Historian who researched and revived the history of this burial ground:
HALO Project Artist Immanuel Oni and M’Finda Kalunga Garden
Project HALO was a collaboration between Immanuel Oni, FABnyc, the M’Finda Kalunga Garden, Buro Happold, Beam Center and NYC Parks. Image: Elyse Mertz.
HALO adds its beauty and powerful visuals and literal “light” to the beauty of M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden.
“Artist Immanuel Oni’s HALO is a public art installation memorializing the now paved over Chrystie Street African Burial Ground. Located on the fence of the M’Finda Kalunga Garden in Sara Roosevelt Park”
The work builds on the “enduring presence of Black communities in the Lower East Side.” And on the decades work of the Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition and M’Finda Kalunga Garden‘s Debra Jeffreys-Glass who spearheaded the re-creation of its Juneteenth Celebrations – over many years (documented on this website).
Prior to that? The invaluable work of Emilyn L. Brown Researcher and Historian without whom this history might have been lost.
More details: (well worth a look!): Project Halo Link to video
From Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition:
Congratulations all.
Thank you:
Oni, beautiful, reverential artwork honoring the lives of those who created this burial ground with and for their community in the Chrystie Street Burial Ground. Those discs of names and dates were striking.
Ryan, for your imagination and your persistent spearheading, guidance and hard work that made this possible (to FABnyc staff too!).
Debra, for your years of work organizing and building on Juneteenth here – carrying that torch from MKG/SRPCC’s earliest days.
Bob Humber (and the early ones: Bette, Kate, Jim, Lee and more), for providing all of us with the ground we stand on (literally).
Buro Happold, John and team: fabricators, designers, all the hands of this work. And thank you for your graciousness and partnership in the work of all the volunteers of the M’Finda Gardeners and the Coalition.
For NYC Parks for knowing this mattered.
For all who funded and made this possible.
From conception to execution this is a beautiful gift to this City, this Park, this community and the public. This lends it’s weight to restoring the reality of Black history here – especially in these times.
We are utterly grateful.
More information and links:
HALO is a commissioned art installation aimed at illuminating the history of New York City’s Black community. The Chrystie Street African Burial Ground, granted to the African Society in 1795, served as a burial site for New York’s Black community until 1853, when most of the estimated 5,000 remains were moved to Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn. In 2006, remains believed to be from this burial ground were discovered during the construction of the new museum.
Meet the artist:
IMMANUEL ONI is a first-generation Nigerian-American artist and space doula living between New York City and hometown Houston, TX. He believes design is not about what he is making, but who he is making it for. More on Immanuel Oni here.
Buro Happold ‘s Share Our Skills program, has a commitment to community engagement and impactful design.
“The collaborative efforts of John, Maya, and Galen …emphasize the importance of hands-on involvement and innovative solutions that resonate with the community.”
SRPC Coalition Website preserved in the Columbia University Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning Web Archive
SDR Park – From June 2017
We were honored to learn that the Columbia University Libraries Web Resources Collection Program selected our Sara Roosevelt Park Coalition website for inclusion in its Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning web archive “to ensure its continuing availability to researchers“.
“The Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning web archive making “makes archival copies of important web resources for preservation and access purposes…to ensure its continuing availability to researchers.”
“Dear Sara D. Roosevelt Park Coalition,
The Columbia University Libraries Web Resources Collection Program has selected your organization’s website, https://sdrpc.mkgarden.org/, for inclusion in its Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning web archive making “makes archival copies of important web resources for preservation and access purposes…to ensure its continuing availability to researchers.”
The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library collects books and periodicals in architecture, historic preservation, art history, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, city planning, real estate, and archaeology–and now makes archival copies of important web resources for preservation and access purposes.
Columbia University Libraries plans to collect your website at regular intervals using a web crawler (requiring no effort on your part) and to provide public online access to the archived version(s) of your website to ensure its availability to researchers.
Please note that the web crawler will not affect the performance or accessibility of your website.
We will also create a cataloging record for your website in the international online library catalog Worldcat and the Columbia University online library catalog, increasing the visibility of your website to the scholarly community. You can learn more about our program with these FAQ, and I’d be happy to answer any questions you have.
Please let me know if you have any concerns or objections to being included in the web archive by replying to this email.
Yours sincerely,
Web Resources Collection Coordinator Columbia University Librarie
Sara D. Roosevelt Park Reconstruction btwn Grand Street and Delancey Street
Thanks all who met and wrangled and made this a better design.
Sara D. Roosevelt Park Reconstruction CB3 Approval
Located between Grand Street and Delancey Street in the Borough of Manhattan.
Community Board 3 is grateful for the efforts of multiple public funding sources obtained for this project (including from DOT to improve street/pedestrian safety):
Former CM Margaret Chin* $15,000,000 ($15Million);
DOT – $15,100,000;
NYS Governor Hochul DRI funding (The Alliance’s application) – $3.285,000;
Former/current mayors $1,785,000;
Total 35,240,000 (according to Parks) to renovate Sara Roosevelt Park from Grand to Delancey;
Project Size: 3.2 acres
*Thank you former Council Member Margaret Chin for your interpretation skills ensuring the Hua Mei Bird Gardeners could communicate in their own language and that we could understand precisely what they wanted (and didn’t want) in retaining this historic legacy garden.
Two Vital Arts Events
The Arts Matter.
PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world.
Whoopie Goldberg talking about her new book “Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother and Me” with Pen America‘s William Johnson.
Kind, forgiving, honest, like sitting with family.
The documentary ” I am Ready Warden”
In the days leading up to his execution, Texas death row prisoner John Henry Ramirez and his victim’s son speak to the cost to their lives. Honest, brave and human.
Bryan Stevenson:
“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others…
…we all need mercy, we all need justice, and – perhaps – we all need some measure of unmerited grace.”
“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent”
“An enduring corrective ethic takes work and decision, getting ready to say or hear hard things, resisting easy answers, telling the truth as we see it, grieving, raging, welcoming disagreement and diverse thinking, willingness to admit error, and celebrating learning. A truthful conclusion is more likely, more believable across sectarian boundaries, when it comes from such engagement.”
City Relief and Bellevue Outreach- Thank you!
City Relief and Bellevue Outreach teams make this park safer and kinder.
Our thanks.
Bellevue Outreach van team
City Relief Volunteers!
And an article worth a read on Amanda Barrows: a Park ranger who patrols Golden Gate Park.
“Her job is to remove homeless people from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary”
Chinatown Partnership: Lunar New Year Events in NYC’s Chinatown
Thank you Chinatown Partnerships!
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