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This Weekend In Parks
Bronx River FlotillaSaturday, May 109:00 a.m. (flotilla begins); 1:00 p.m. (picnic)Flotilla begins on the Bronx River at 219th Street and Bronx Boulevard.Picnic is at Hunts Point Riverside Park at Lafayette Avenue and Edgewater Road.Celebrate the restoration of the Bronx River at the 9th annual Bronx River Flotilla. The festivities include a five-mile paddle down the bucolic Bronx River and a picnic at Hunts Point Riverside Park, a beautiful new South Bronx waterfront park . You must be at least 18 years old to paddle in a canoe or kayak, but the picnic is open to the entire family. Recently the river has seen the return of native animals including herring and even a beaver! For more information and to register for a canoe ride, please visit www.bronxriver.org.Bike to Shea DaySaturday, May 109:45 a.m.Bike to Shea Day highlights safe alternative ways to travel to most destinations in the city via bicycle lanes and greenways. The 12-mile ride will begin in Brooklyn with marshals from the Department of Transportation escorting riders on a traffic-free ride to Shea Stadium in Flushing, Queens. Once at Shea, riders will be treated to complimentary valet bicycle parking and an exciting game between the Mets and the Reds. Let’s Go Mets!For more information, please visit bikemonthnyc.org or call (212) 629-8080. Spend Mother’s Day in Prospect ParkSunday, May 1112:00 p.m.Prospect Park is the perfect Mother’s Day destination, with lots to do for kids and their mom * Discover Tour: Bird Mommies & Migration, 3-4 p.m.Learn about the unique adaptations of female birds. Audubon Center. Free. * Electric Boating, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Bring mom along on a whisper-quiet tour of the Park’s Lullwater and Lake aboard the electric boat Independence. $6 adults, $3 for kids under 13, free for kids under 3. Audubon Center. * Pedal Boats, 12-6 p.m. Take mom-and the rest of the family, too-on a pedal boat ride that seats four. $15/hour, plus a $10 refundable deposit. Wollman Rink.* Prospect Park Historic Carousel, 12-5 p.m.For only $1.50 per ride, treat mom to a spin on the Park’s famous 1912 Carousel!* Mother’s Day Concert and Sing-Along, 3 p.m.At Lefferts Historic House.Mother’s Day HikeSunday, May 111:00 p.m.Greenbelt Nature Center, Staten Island Celebrate Mother Nature and all she has to offer this Mother’s Day while we hike through the Greenbelt. Refreshments will be served.Flowers for the Mother You LoveSunday, May 112:00 p.m.Central Park’s Conservatory Garden (106 Street and 5th Avenue)Pamper your mom with a stroll through the “Secret Garden,” learning about its history and beautiful flora.QUOTATION FOR THE DAY”Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”Aristotle(384 B.C. - 322 B.C.)

Greensward Exhibition On View
Parks & Recreation and the Central Park Conservancy are proud to present Celebrating Greensward: The Plan for Central Park, 1858-2008. This exhibition is on view at the Arsenal Gallery through June 19. It marks the 150th anniversary of an enduring document, the Greensward Plan for Central Park, by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The large-scale original drawing, which determined the contours of the world’s premier park, a unique and influential work of landscape art, is on rare public display.Featuring 71 vintage and contemporary photographs, the exhibition highlights selected areas of the park, themes, and particular representative features including: the Harlem Meer, Sheep Meadow, The Mall, the Concert Ground, Bethesda Terrace, The Ravine, Belvedere Castle, Greywacke Arch, Heckscher Playground, Park Staff, The Great Lawn, and The Pond. Also in the show are portraits and biographies of the two park designers, as well as a facsimile of one of Vaux’s preparatory album drawings.The exhibition is timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of April 28, 1858, the day on which the Board of Commissioners of Central Park awarded the Greensward plan the winner in a competition that elicited 33 entries. The land for the future park was taken by the State Legislature in 1853, an unprecedented and democratic vision to create an urban park for the people, by the people and of the people, unlike the parks in Europe that were originally grounds that belonged to royalty or the aristocracy.The exhibition illustrates the story of the park’s history and varied uses, as well as its decline, restoration and revival through a unique and groundbreaking partnership forged in 1980 between the City and the Central Park Conservancy. In one vintage photograph, a boy sits at the water’s edge of the Harlem Meer, while looming in the distance is the long-forgotten chapel of the Sisters of Charity of Mount St. Vincent, for a time a fine art museum and later restaurant at the park’s north end. In another, a camel from the zoo is hitched to a lawn mower on the Sheep Meadow, a novel method of turf maintenance or an early publicity stunt. Further pictures depict sheep grazing on the meadow that will soon give way to flocks of sun bathers. The majestic elms on the Mall, spaced like the piers of a cathedral, are shown to shelter promenaders over six generations. An orchestral concert of 1910 contrasts with go-go girls at Soundblast ‘66. Barbra Streisand takes a star turn on the Sheep Meadow, while Simon and Garfunkel reunite on the Great Lawn.Other scenes capture Central Park’s transformation and restoration. The Great Lawn materializes, created from the swampy footprint of the old Croton receiving reservoir. The ornamental magnificence of Belvedere Castle, a Victorian folly, and home to the US Weather Bureau since just after 1919, is restored to its former grandeur. The spectacular Moorish Minton tile ceiling of Bethesda Terrace is also revived.Series of sequential photographs of cascading waterfalls of the Ravine, the graceful Greywacke Arch, and the Heckscher Playground (the park’s first) illustrate patterns of creation, use, decline and restoration. A wall in the show is dedicated to the staff who have sustained this masterpiece of art, from the tradesmen of the 19th century to a group portrait of the staff of Central Park. Horticulture, man-made structures and ornamentation are shown to all have been part of the park’s revival of the past 28 years. The exhibition is curated by Parks & Recreation’s Director of Art & Antiquities, Jonathan Kuhn and Sara Cedar Miller, historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy. The exhibition’s images are courtesy of the new york City Photo Archive, the Central Park Conservancy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Herbert Mitchell Collection, the new york Times Archive, and the Municipal Archives.The Arsenal Gallery is dedicated to examining themes of nature, urban space, wildlife, new york City parks and park history. It is located on the 3rd Floor of the Arsenal at 64th Street and Fifth Avenue in Central Park. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (closed Memorial Day, May 26). Admission is free. QUOTATION FOR THE DAY”There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

A Tree-ific Day For A Tree Planting
On May 8, Commissioner Benepe joined Council Member Diana Reyna, Con Edison’s Brooklyn/Queens Vice President Tom Newell, Con Edison’s Paul Kerzner and teachers and third-grade students from P.S. 81 in Queens to planted “Maggie,” a Magnolia tree. This new tree is one more toward Mayor Bloomberg’s MillionTreesNYC initiative. “Maggie” joins “Mr. Junior” and “Anthony,” trees planted by students near the school. MillionTreesNYC is a citywide, public-private initiative with an ambitious goal to plant and care for one million new trees across the city’s five boroughs by 2017. As a result of a new comprehensive tree planting and greening approach, entire neighborhoods throughout new york City will be transformed into beautiful greenscapes, with every newly planted tree registered. Over the next ten years, through a mix of public and private plantings, MillionTreesNYC partners and citizen volunteers are planting in schoolyards and playgrounds, public housing campuses, museums and libraries, business districts, commercial and residential developments, front yards and other private lands. All new yorkers will share in the many benefits that come from planting trees more beautiful neighborhoods and parks; cleaner air and water; higher property values; energy savings; cooler summer streets, yards, and public open spaces; and a healthier, more environmentally sustainable new york City. P.E.P. BLOTTEROn April 23, while patrolling Ferry Point Park, Officers Christopher Hanna-Dorsey and Mario Carrillo observed an individual riding a blue and white dirt bike inside the park. When they attempted to apprehend the individual, he took off on the bike. While checking the area several patrons approached our officers to complain of the dirt bikers. One of the patrons informed our officers that the bike was transported via a small U-Haul truck which was parked in the parking lot. While investigating the U-Haul, four young adults started towards the vehicle pushing a yellow and white dirt bike. A check of the U-Haul revealed the blue and white dirt bike that had been spotted by the officers earlier. Mounted Sgt. Gabe Vazquez also arrived on the scene for assistance. All four individuals were issued criminal court summonses for failure to comply with area use restrictions and unlawful operation of a motor vehicle. Both bikes were vouched at the 45th precinct and then later transported to the NYPD Impound facility in Whitestone, Queens as evidence. Written by Robert Reeves QUOTATION FOR THE DAY”Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.” Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

Umoja Garden Is Transformed Into An Oasis Of Learning
Commissioner Adrian Benepe today joined City Parks Foundation Executive Director David Rivel, City Parks Foundation Director of Education Claudia Demegret, 81st Police Precinct Captain Steve Mauriello, Boy Scout Troop 237 Eagle Scout Candidate Kyle LeClaire and students from P.S. 309 to cut the ribbon on Umoja Garden, a recently restored site that will serve as a home for City Parks Foundation’s Learning Gardens program.”There is no better place to teach new yorkers the importance of sustaining a healthy environment than a beautiful public garden,” said Commissioner Benepe. “I am grateful to the City Parks Foundation as their Learning Gardens educational program supports healthy lifestyles, unites neighborhoods and encourages the importance of greening our communities. I am also thankful to Brooklyn Parks, Boy Scout Troop 237, and our volunteers for working so hard to transform the Umoja Garden into a vibrant community asset.”"We are grateful to Commissioner Benepe and to the many individuals from the Brooklyn office of Parks & Recreation for their significant contributions in transforming this space into the beautiful garden it has become today,” said David Rivel, Executive Director of City Parks Foundation. “We are thrilled to be opening Umoja Garden in Brooklyn today, strengthening our citywide Learning Gardens program and continuing our mission to connect new yorkers to parks, enriching neighborhoods with outdoor programs that enhance city life.”The opening of Umoja Garden is the most recent addition to City Parks Foundation’s citywide Learning Gardens program, offering free education programs about the environment, gardening and the natural sciences to youth and communities.The garden, which was formerly an unused lot, was transformed thanks to Brooklyn Parks, City Parks Foundation and Kyle LeClaire, from Boy Scout Troop 237, who worked on the restoration for his Eagle Scout project. Accessible planters were installed, allowing access to those in wheelchairs. Five accessible tables were also built, creating an outdoor classroom in the middle of this thriving garden.Founded in 1997 as part of CityParks Education, Learning Gardens teach new york City youth about environmental science and other core subjects through experiences in neighborhood parks, while increasing their appreciation for the natural world. QUOTATION FOR THE DAY”It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.”Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870)

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