This Weekend In Parks

Clean Streets=Clean Beaches: Day of Service
Sunday, August 12, 2012
8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Help clean up some of the local shorelines that New Yorkers enjoy the most. Teams of volunteers will work at the following locations:

* Plumb Beach, Brooklyn, exit off the Belt Parkway Eastbound just past Exit 9, Knapp Street or via bike path which starts at Emmons and Brigham St.
* Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, Gerritsen Ave. street end, south of Lois Ave.
* Kaiser Park, Brooklyn, Park House at West 28th St. and Neptune Ave.
* Pugsley Creek Park, Bronx, Lacombe Ave. and Pugsley Ave.
* Conference House, Staten Island, Conference House Park Visitors Center
* Rockaway Beach, Queens, Beach 97th Street and the Boardwalk

New York City is fortunate to have a large expanse of shoreline, and local waterways that are the cleanest they have been in more than 100 years. We invite you to join us—and your friends and neighbors—on August 12 to help clean and beautify these recreational areas. Gloves and bags will be provided for each beach clean-up effort.

For more information or to sign up for a beach clean-up, please email beachcleanups@dep.nyc.gov, or please call at 718-595-6599.

Saturday, August 11

Early Fitness Hike (Vigorous)
9:00 a.m.
Marine Park, Brooklyn

Family Day
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Wayanda Park, Queens

Naturalist Walk Through Long Pond Park
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Long Pond Park, Staten Island

Sunshine Community Garden Annual Community Barbecue & Membership Drive
1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Sunshine Community Garden, Brooklyn

Sunday, August 12

Family Art Project at Wave Hill -- Flutter with the butterflies
10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Wave Hill, Bronx

A Clearing in a Forest: Stories in Central Park
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Central Park, Manhattan

Free Yoga at the Market!
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Cooper Park, Brooklyn

Kids Beach Ecology
1:00 p.m.
Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk, Queens

Revolutionary New York Walking Tour: The Battle of Long Island
1:00 p.m.
Conference House Park, Staten Island

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”

Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892)

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