Join the Green Team!
From April through October, the Green Team, our volunteer stewardship team, provides hands-on car
e for Brooklyn Bridge Park. Be a part of the fun. Contact Kara Gilmour at 718-802-0603 x18 or kgilmour@bbpc.net for more information.
Last year volunteers donated more than 3,500 hours to this much-loved and much-used waterfront park, and it showed. Enthusiastic plantings and clean-ups, by friends old and new, make for a healthy, thriving park. The activities have fostered some wonderful public/private partnerships with volunteer groups from NY Cares, One Brick, Meet Up, Goldman Sachs, AHRC, public and private school groups, as well as our regular Green Team volunteers, who have helped ensure that Brooklyn Bridge Park is a beautiful and well-maintained urban oasis.
Highlights of our stewardship season include:
- The creation of three thriving native habitats; sand dune grass, native trees and shrubs, and flowers which support the local ecosystem and create an outdoor classroom for visiting school and camp groups.
- Mulching, weeding, planting and re-planting in all areas of the Park.
- Removal of hundreds of pounds of debris from the shore.
- Environmental Education activities for school groups, after-school groups and day care centers.
- Participation in two city-wide “It’s My Park” Days, including the planting of many native plants and grasses, and hundreds of tulip and daffodil bulbs.
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