The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council
It’s the annual Prospect Heights Community Farm Pumpkin Smash Potato Bake Bash this weekend and this year’s event will be their19th one in succession!
Bring your left over jack o’ lanterns to smash in the farm's compost. Theye’ll also have a grill going to bake potatoes as well as hot cider and other snacks. Stop by and hang out as the Community Farm closes out the garden season!
Over the last six months the Prospect Park Alliance gathered community input on how to shape the future of Prospect Park’s Rose Garden—a little-known area in the northeast corner of the Park—into a welcoming place for all of Brooklyn’s diverse communities. Now they want to share all the great feedback and ideas they received to narrow down the options!
Join the Alliance on Sunday, November 5 to:
If you have questions about this event, please contact daryle@hesterstreet.org.
Learn more and RSVP at prospectpark.org/reimagine.
The Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force, along with NYC Parks Stewardship and Trees New York, will partner with neighborhood merchants and residents on Saturday, November 4 to clean, aerate, fertilize, and mulch Vanderbilt Avenue’s tree beds. Certified citizen pruners will be on hand to prune our street trees. Pitch in for an hour or so to ensure the survival of our street trees!
Our street trees have a tough life, but we can improve their lives, and that in turn will improve ours.
For more information, see www.facebook.com/groups/PHTrees or email phstreettrees@gmail.com.
The next outing of the Friends of the Berms will be this Saturday Aug 19, 10:00-noon, for cleaning and greening of the Berms surrounding Grand Army Plaza. If you're around, please join in!
As usual, they'll meet at the corner of Plaza Street and Vanderbilt Ave, then move to the day's work area. Please arrive by 10:00 sharp! Adults and supervised children are welcome; experience is not required.
Please call 718-623-6768 with any questions.
Prospect Park Alliance is seeking community input on uses and activities for a redesign of the Rose Garden, a little-known area in the northeast corner of the Park.
Join the Alliance, community members and park users on Saturday, June 10th at Prospect Park’s Boathouse from 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm to share your vision for what you want to see in the reimagined Rose Garden. The day’s event will feature fun educational activities for the kids, an open house exhibit about the Rose Garden, and an interactive group activity where you’ll build a 3D model of your vision for the site!
Your input will directly impact the redesign and programming of the new space. Bring your family and friends and make the Rose Garden a place that reflects your community! RSVPs appreciated but not required. Visit www.prospectpark.org/reimagine to RSVP or contact outreach@prospectpark.orgwith questions.
April is the month when our "hearts with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils." Sadly, some of the pleasure is muted this April because the Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force did not plant all of the daffodil bulbs the Parks Department entrusted to them in the fall. They have been assured by the "Garden Know How Center" that if they plant the remaining bulbs now that some will bloom late and those that don't will bloom next year.
So if you can spare an hour (more or less) this Sunday, April 9th, around 2 pm, please join the Prospect Heights Street Tree Task Force on the Vanderbilt Avenue median between Prospect Place and St. Marks Avenue to plant our remaining bulbs.
If you would rather take some bulbs and plant them in a different location that would be fine too. They just want to get the bulbs in the ground ASAP.
So please stop by the Vanderbilt Avenue median Sunday afternoon and together you'll help get those bulbs in the ground where they belong. Trowels will be provided!
If you use Facebook, check here for updates and more information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PHTrees/.