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SunFlower Project Sara Roosevelt Park

As part of the University Settlement’s Sara Roosevelt Park ROAR festival this summer, on Saturdays from 12pm-2pm, we are creating a garden to offer a benign presence in the wake of the damage, sorrow, and neglect in and around the world – including our Sara Roosevelt Park. (map at bottom, the site is marked by the Hibiscus flower).
This intends to be a ‘healing garden’. A chance for people to write messages of who/what they care about and their hopes on ribbons as we slowly create a flowering garden.
Join us?

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Sara Roosevelt Park is a Designated ‘Environmental Justice Area’

Parks are for people. Not cars or parking perks.

This troubled narrow park serves 7 blocks of low-income neighborhoods. The Broome Str Communications Building below serves all 5 boroughs. Why is it, and its parking, here?

NYC ‘Environmental Justice Area‘ map. NYC’s environmental justice law defines “Environmental Justice Areas” as low-income or minority communities located in the City of New York, based on US Census data.

Yet three of four of its Parkhouses are burdened with carrying:

All 5 boroughs at Broome Street.

All of Manhattan at Stanton Street.

All of Manhattan at Hester Street 

Only the robust, active, community hub of 30 Delancey Street parkhouse – the BRC Senior Nutrition Center is used by and for the people of these neighborhoods.


See original maps link (https://nycdohmh.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/lookup/index.html?appid=fc9a0dc8b7564148b4079d294498a3cf )

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