Prospect Park Alliance is determined to care for the Park amid COVID cuts
Group launches initiatives, seeks volunteers
Assemblymember Robert Carroll (left) and Councilmember Brad Lander teamed up with the Prospect Park Alliance for the clean-up effort. Photos: John McCarten/Brooklyn Eagle
By Editorial Staff
August 21, 2020
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The Prospect Park Alliance is launching new stewardship efforts to care for Prospect Park amid challenges brought on by the pandemic.
Not only have both Prospect Park Alliance and NYC Parks have recently lost critical funding, but a spike in park visitors eager to get out of their apartments has led to an increase in litter accumulation.
Additionally, the Alliance’s seasonal workforce is significantly smaller compared to last year, the organization says.
Councilmember Brad Lander threw a trash bag into a dumpster.
On Monday, local volunteers gathered at the Park to aid in the clean-up effort. They showed up wearing masks and were soon armed with trash pickers, bags, and disposable gloves.
Councilmember Brad Lander and Assemblymember Robert Carroll were among those volunteers, hauling bags of litter to dumpsters and recycling cardboard boxes. They worked alongside Sue Donoghue, park administrator and president of the Prospect Park Alliance.
Assemblymember Robert Carroll used a trash picker to clear litter.
“We know how important the park is to our community right now, especially in the summer months,” said Donoghue. “Prospect Park is showing serious signs of wear and tear, and without our normal workforce, we need our community to pitch in and help keep this cherished green space thriving.”
The Prospect Park Alliance has launched the following initiatives, and is actively seeking volunteers who are willing to help. More information and registration can be found at the Alliance’s website.
Prospect Park Alliance Administrator Sue Donoghue led Monday’s clean-up effort.
Carry In + Carry Out Your Trash
Please carry out of the park everything you bring into the park with you, and please clean up your trash and litter. If you are able to carry out your trash, you will be doing your park a great service. If this is not possible, please use the large trash receptacles that Prospect Park Alliance is installing in key areas of the park. View this map for large trash receptacle locations.
Councilmember Brad Lander (right) and Assemblymember Robert Carroll cleaned a field together.
The Alliance is actively seeking volunteers from all communities around the park to join our Volunteer Greeter Program. Greeters will circulate the park in teams of two, handing out trash bags and encouraging park visitors to take their trash and recyclables home with them. Greeters will also inform the public about steps they can take to be a park champion and protect the park’s natural areas and wildlife, and share other key information that will have a positive impact on all park visitors.
Josh, Jonah and Gideon Breitzer helped out.
Green and Go Kits
Want to help keep the park clean and green? Register today to check out a Green and Go Kit, available every Saturday and Sunday through August 30 at various locations around the park. Kits include a trash grabber, garbage bags and gloves. You must be 18 years old to check out a kit, but children are welcome to accompany adults.
The Prospect Park Alliance is headed by Iris Weinshall a very connected individual married to US Senator Chuck Schumer. the Alliance has a multi-million dollar endowment and other investments. it can weather a few storms and should be paying Brooklynites who are out of work due to the pandemic or teens who dont have summer job opportunities which have closed. No one is asking public universities to have volunteers do the work of paid individuals. this seems more like a publicity stunt that a real need. If the PPA showed some community spirit, dipped into its robust funds and paid some needy folks to clean, its leaders would show real community spirit
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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — ‘A miracle that no one was killed …’ That’s what neighbors are saying about the collapse of the Hotel St. George marquee. Shown in this photograph are workmen beginning the removal and repair of the historic, old neon sign at the corner, referencing a relic of Brooklyn Heights’ past: the St. George Hotel.
ATLANTIC AVENUE — Exhausted shopper with cluster of bags and goods from mall at Boerum Place stops to look at huge construction site across the street. “Is that REALLY going to be a jail??” Her male companion is reassuring, “Nothing like Rikers … this is 21st Century.”
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Overheard in line at one of most popular pastry outlets on Montague Street: “Hope I can get them into a camp …” A mother with two pre-schoolers in tow was showing a friend the Dodge Y flyer for Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, April 18.
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The Prospect Park Alliance is headed by Iris Weinshall a very connected individual married to US Senator Chuck Schumer. the Alliance has a multi-million dollar endowment and other investments. it can weather a few storms and should be paying Brooklynites who are out of work due to the pandemic or teens who dont have summer job opportunities which have closed. No one is asking public universities to have volunteers do the work of paid individuals. this seems more like a publicity stunt that a real need. If the PPA showed some community spirit, dipped into its robust funds and paid some needy folks to clean, its leaders would show real community spirit