Good to see many old and new friends.
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:
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
“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.
Thank you to the panelists Justen, Rob, Kate, Bob and Brian for coming to talk with each other, compare notes, tell us their highlights and what they’d like to have different – with our communities.
Thank you also to:
Thanks to the BRC Senior Nutrition Center and Kim Fong (and staff).
Thanks to Ted Enoch Senior Program Director (Catalyst and Partnerships for Parks) for jumping in to help out with refreshments, his contributions as a long-time supporter of Parks like ours and for his respectful listening ear (and note taking)!
Thanks also to Pilar -Maschi (Catalyst)!
Thank you to Terese Flores (NYC Parks Dept) for her welcoming and listening ear and for stepping in with answers and ideas!
Thank you to Carlos and Erisima (below) for set up help, Debra for her last-minute help and (always) guidance and the whole crew who helped us put the BRC back together!
And thank you to the community that came to listen and learn and hopefully be inspired to join the effort to care for this park.
Getting started and waiting for more people to arrive
Carlos and Erisima at work (and play)
Carina Liu organized, brought dog treats and her dear friends.
The Pet Costume Party was very popular with the four-legged set and their owners!
One costumed couple were more interested in digging in the woodpiles!
Welcome all to listen in on Gardeners and Stewards of Sara Roosevelt Park discuss where they are working to beautify our Park and how YOU could get involved!!!
Sunday October 26th at 11am
M’Finda Kalunga Garden Patio
Details Below
(Inside the BRC at 30 Delancey if weather requires it!)
Our Sara Roosevelt Park Community Coalition’s Head Gardener, Kate Fitzgerald continues supervising our work to prepare the site for the move during construction of the South Delancey to Grand Street Section of the park.
Thanks to Luc our Park Manager for guidance as well and offers of help to move their historic signage!
Allium!
Signage in Chinese to Remind Birders of the Coming Move During Construction
One more of these beautiful red Hibiscus will grace the new site too.
Butterflybush attracting the Monarch Butterflies on their long journey
Trees Count at Sara Roosevelt Park with Mayor’s Office of Operations
Volunteer with NYC Parks for Trees Count 2025!
At each event volunteers will receive a tote bag with all the materials needed to count trees.
They provide a 20-minute training session that includes the basics of tree identification and how to measure and assess each tree. Using their Tree Census app, they split up into different zones within the park to start counting trees!
After completing the first training event, volunteers are welcome to continue counting trees on your own in smaller parks across the city.
Their “tour guides”:
Annual Gala Turtle Extraction Event. Gabrielle in the wet clothes!
Thanks to Ted and Richard and Valiant Volunteers!! Especially Gabrielle to the right of Adam and drenched!(above)! (and despite a weather watch from NYState)
And a few valiant watchers!
With support from:
On a more serious note:
Richard, our neighbor who his cared for our garden turtles, nursed sick ones back to health, and has mentored me for years, asked that this announcement from the organization he helped start be forwarded as widely as possible.
More than 2,000 Wild Turtles Seized in Mexico Conservationists Race to Save Survivors
These turtles represent seven species of mud turtles native to Mexico — including dozens of critically endangered Vallarta Mud Turtles (Kinosternon vogti), the most imperiled turtle species in the Western Hemisphere.
Donate Here.
Thanks to the immediate response from more than 60 donors and institutions, urgent help is on the way to support the veterinarians and animal care teams at Zoológico Guadalajara. They have already begun providing lifesaving treatment, disease testing, and specialized care for the survivors. While hundreds of turtles have already perished, your support is helping ensure that many others now have a chance to recover and, one day, return to the wild.
Thanks to BRC funding and the BRC Team and ED Kim Fong and the Parks Department’s Max Goldstein and Terese Flores and the MKGardener’s work – we are ready.
Before:
After: Belgian Blocks are pulled back, Hydrangea trimmed and plot weeded.
Andrew’s Drawing!
