Protecting and improving the community for the people who live and work here

The Stanton CSA is in full swing as Farmer Ted arrives at the gates of the M’Finda Garden!

Sign up next year!

Bringing Chickens (as Bob inspects)!

Somewhere in Sara Roosevelt Park

Tony and the Hua Mei Bird Sanctuary (his Hibiscus survived winter!)

de Britto:

M’Finda Kalunga Garden

Earth Day

Our newest – it will take a while to see what happens here!

Despite all the efforts of our Park workers, Park Manager Jamil Phillips, Ju-Wan, Parks staff, PEP, and our Volunteer Gardeners, we continue to see massive garbage pile ups, homeless encampments with our desperate neighbors (those in the encampments tend to be respectful of the plots that gardeners work hard on), drug sales, discarded needles, using garden plots as latrines, and general misuse, etc.

We know that demonizing our communities – whoever we are – only serves to divide and conquer to prevent a way forward.

We need: Housing, sufficient services, ending violence from any quarter, funding our daycares, ensuring healthcare for all, real mental health assistance – not more drugs, and a strong,

AND

a vibrant Parks department workforce that we commit to as they commit to us.

Fight for Park funding HERE!!

AFTER and BEFORE pictures below:

This is the AFTER picture.

And this:

This is BEFORE:

The Pit remains the one area in this section of Sara Roosevelt Park that provides positive activation (meaning ‘fun’) that keeps this area as safe as it can.

Thankful for their presence!

Douglas is a former NYPD officer who now enjoys working out here!

Two Days, Two Different Classes get to release their class Butterflies in M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden!

Back to class! Under Bob Humber’s watchful eye!

Flowers and Memories…

Beautiful!

Tessa’s Garden, Spray showers are on, and many Basketball Games!

Today at 2pm and 4pm!

Obie Award-winning Carmen Rivera Play!!

Here Alex Aaron on Traven Rice’s LoDown  Podcast HERE

Obie winning Playwright Carmen Rivera brings this Park (literally) to life with her crew of brilliant and agile actors. Funny, serious, moving, and brave.

Brought to us by The Remote Theater Project‘s Artistic Director Alexandra Aron

Learn more about how it started here.

Remote Theater Project’s Artistic Director Alexandra Aron also brought us  #LittleAmal’s walk through the #LowerEastSide