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COME AND MEET THE NEW NEW YORK NPS TEAM.

On June 21st, Friends of Gateway/ Neighborhood Open Space Coalition will be holding a special evening event to introduce the New National Parks of New York Harbor management team. Maria Burks and Barry Sullivan have hit the floor running in an effort to move Gateway National Recreation Area and other local National Park Service properties into a new era of service to our region. We will welcome them at an evening of light refreshment and conversation, while we raise some money to continue our work. For a copy of the event invitation click: (Invitation.pdf)

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Friends of Gateway is the partner organization to Neighborhood Open Space Coalition, sharing a Board and Staff with the group that publishes Urban Outdoors, provides insurance to community gardens, and works for a greener and more humane city. Through Friends of Gateway we turn the theory of "urban environmentalism" into practical projects, whether we are providing trees to community groups, getting greenways built, or working with young people.

This spring over 1000 New York City school children, mostly 5th and 6th graders, have passed through the Gateway Greenhouse Education Center for a day of open-air science and environmental education. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, part of Gateway National Recreation Area, the students learned about the biology of plant life, and planted tree and shrub seedlings in pots for a period of monitored growth before they are planted in our landfills, parks and community gardens and otherwise serve our city as air filters, coolers and beautifiers.

The program is offered free of charge to schools, scout and youth groups by Friends of Gateway. Some of the costs have been covered by grants from:

International Paper, New York Community Trust, New York City Environmental Fund, New York City Soil and Water Conservation District and the National Park Service.

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