Raindate June 25, 2016 Please join us for our biggest event of the year – newly re-named as the "CPN Family Earth Fair" to be more aligned with our mission of helping local folks be greener in their daily lives, and strengthen their connection to the coastal environment. Coastal cleanup, rain barrel giveaway, live animals with […]
CPN, community leaders, environmentalists, marine scientists, kayakers and elected officials will join together for a “Day of Outrage” rally and press conference to stop the city DEP’s destructive plan to install a stormwater outfall pipe in the middle of MacNeil Park’s thriving wetlands & oyster reef that we have been restoring for a decade, and […]
Calling all volunteers! Please join us to clean Powell's Cove Park on Sunday, Oct. 22, from 9 am to Noon. We will remove trash from the East River coast, rake & bag leaves, and plant 1,000 daffodil bulbs. Wear old shoes and clothes: you'll get messy. Gloves and bags will be provided. Meet at the […]
It is spring cleaning time on the East River! Join us as we clean the polluted coast at Powell's Cove Park in College Point, and work shoulder to shoulder with like-minded people who want to make things better. We can and will make a difference! Our event is part of the Riverkeeper Sweep, in which […]
Join Coastal Preservation Network for our biggest event of the year – our Family Earth Fair! It will be a great day environmental service, education and fun at MacNeil Park in College Point. Help clean the beach and park....enjoy FREE KAYAKING in the East River with HarborLAB....live animals with Alley Pond Environmental Center ....robotic with with […]
Do you want free NYC compost? Coastal Preservation Network is co-sponsoring a giveaway day on Sept. 30 from 1-3 pm at MacNeil Park (near the baseball field). ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Email kathryncervino (at) gmail.com DSNY will provide 40lb bags of garden mulch made from NYC food scraps & yard waste. Fall is a great […]
Come rake the fall leaves, plant some daffodil bulbs, make art with leaves (ARTbeat5), and have some free apple cider! Fall is here and the park is awash in color! Volunteers will move leaves from the ground, to the new leaf compost bin that we built this summer. We will use our new battery-powered leaf […]
We will team with local Girl Scouts Troop 4725, 6th through 8th grade Cadettes, to rake leaves from the daffodil shoots that are starting to emerge at MacNeil Park. CPN has planted bulbs (donated by New Yorkers for Parks) year after year, and these flowers are beautiful each spring! We will also hang the remainder […]