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October 2018
Tree Planting Covenant
Completing the tree planting covenant that took place during Indigenous Peoples' Day Symposium, we are planting a new Virginia Pine Tree in Transmitter Park's Kent St meadow. Please join Friends of Transmitter Park, American Indian Community House, Greenpoint Tree Corps and Greening Greenpoint as we plant pay tribute to nature. Support provided by Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. Sunday October 28th, 2018 1pm-2pm Meet in Transmitter Park by the transmitter building.
Find out more »November 2018
Daffodil Planting Fall 2018
Come plant daffodil bulbs in and around Transmitter Park so we'll have some amazing early Spring blooms next year. * meet by the Kent Street garden side of the transmitter building. Bulbs provided by New Yorkers for Parks. Tools & refreshments will be provided. * Please register for free. * "A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze." – William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. New Yorkers for Parks and NYC Parks founded The…
Find out more »December 2018
General Meeting
Join us for a convening to discuss all things Transmitter Park: programing, stewardship, old building redevelopment, separation wall concept, park issues. We'll recap the year and look toward 2019. Come share your thoughts. Please RSVP. We are grateful to Pastor Foster for making the church available to us.
Find out more »May 2019
Riverkeeper Sweep 2019
Join the Friends of Transmitter Park and Riverkeeper for a clean up of WNYC Transmitter Park on Saturday, May 4, 2019 for the 8th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep, a day of service for the Hudson River and its tributaries. Volunteers will meet near the mural wall at the WNYC Transmitter Park(Greenpoint Ave and West St., Brooklyn, NY 11222). This Sweep site has neighborhood parking, with limited public parking. We ask all Sweep volunteers to wear sturdy shoes or boots, clothing that they can get dirty,…
Find out more »June 2019
June Bug Jazz Thursdays: Rafik Williamson Quartet at Transmitter Park
This June the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance is partnering with the Jazz Foundation of America for the first time to bring free jazz to your neighborhood park. Every Thursday throughout the month, you can enjoy a sunset concert as part of the Jazz Foundation's Gig Fund, a program that creates much-needed work for accomplished musicians and brings free concerts to underserved audiences across the country. In Transmitter our ears will be graced by the Rafik Williamson Quartet. Rafik Williamson has…
Find out more »Greening Greenpoint Final Tree Planting Ceremony
Greening Greenpoint is celebrating the planting of the final tree of the project! JOIN US AND YOUR FELLOW GREENPOINTERS IN CELEBRATING THE PROJECT BY PLANTING A SWAMP WHITE OAK AT THE TRANSMITTER PARK WATERFRONT BY HAND! The tree will be planted on the Kent St. side of the lawn by the water and the event will begin at 6:00 PM with the tree planting ceremony! After the ceremony stick around to enjoy refreshments and take some bulbs with you to plant at…
Find out more »Films on the Green Presents Peppermint Soda
PEPPERMINT SODA (Diabolo menthe) Directed by Diane Kurys, 1977, PG, 1h41, France (Courtesy of Cohen Media Group) With Anouk Ferjac, Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel Anne (Klarwein) and Frédérique (Michel) are sisters entering their teen years in 1963 Paris. Their life, like the world around them, is in full swing. Their personal struggles include the difficulties of divorced parents, getting their first period, discovering boys, and struggling with the confines of their strict school all while figuring out where they fit…
Find out more »Tree & Medicinal Plant ID Workshop
Friends of Transmitter Park welcomes Arborist Bill Schmidt and Herbalist Maya Robinson to guide us through identifying the park's tree and plant species, focusing on those that potential provide healing properties. Please join us in this opportunity to connect more deeply to Transmitter's natural elements. Please RSVP for free below. Bill Schmidt is a certified arborist and has been a forester for the City of New York for over 10 years, during his career he's planted thousands of trees in…
Find out more »Films on the Green Presents Mustang
MUSTANG Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015, PG-13, 1h34, France-Turkey (Courtesy of Cohen Media Group) With Dogba Doguslu, Elit Iscan, Gunes Sensoy, Ilayda Akdogan, Tugba Sunguroglu Presented in partnership with the American Turkish Society, with the support of Sézane. It’s the beginning of summer in a small village in Northern Turkey. Lale (Sensoy) and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games arouses a scandal with unexpected consequences and causes the family home…
Find out more »July 2019
Bird and Plant Walk
Join NYC Audubon Birding Guide and Naturalist Tod Winston as he helps us identify bird species in the park and how the planted life supports avian life there and beyond. The Greenpoint Avenue gardens in particular were created with this purpose in mind. Let's get into those weeds. Please register for free. We recommend bringing a pair of binoculars and a hat. Meet inside the Greenpoint Avenue entrance. Tod Winston A lifelong birder and gardener, Tod has worked in various…
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