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Neighborhood Chat / JHBG's new Facebook page & tomorrow's holiday lighting event
« on: December 13, 2011, 05:47:29 PM »
Please check out and join the JHBG Facebook page to keep up with what's going on in JH. Check news on tomorrow's holiday lighting ceremony at the Jackson Heights Post Office.

www.facebook.com/JHBGNY

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Community Groups, Activities & Events / Let's green Jackson Heights - this Saturday
« on: October 11, 2011, 04:31:12 PM »
We've taken care of more than 200 trees and, in this month alone, requested
the planting of 53 new trees to be planted on our streets.

NOW IT'S YOUR TURN.

Join JHBG* Saturday 10 a.m. to green the 69th Street Corridor, creating
a new 69th Street Green Zone that will include extensive plantings and a
community composting center.

Meet at the White Castle parking lot at 34th Avenue near 69th Street, where
we will later return to for refreshments.  

*Jackson Heights Beautification Group

Len Maniace

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Neighborhood Chat / FREE WOOD-CHIP MULCH
« on: September 25, 2011, 01:30:10 PM »
Get some while the supply lasts.

We have wood-chip mulch left over after our (JHBG) tree-care effort on 78th Street - seven big bags. They are great for protecting plantings anytime of year and can be used in tree pits, front gardens or back yards- anywhere you want.

The wood chips are on the Playstreet, about 1/3 of a block north of 34th Avenue.
Bring a hand truck or wheelbarrow to haul the wood chips away.

And thank you to all who made yesterday's event such a success. Our next one is October 15.

Len Maniace

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Neighborhood Chat / Travers Park conditions
« on: March 21, 2011, 06:16:30 PM »
Gauging the level of interest and concern over conditions at Travers Park. Of special concern is the fact that the park will be without a full-time park attendant for the first time in many years. The last time we didn't ahve a full-time park attendant (about a decade ago), it wasn't a pretty picture. (See photos below and more in e-mail just posted on JHFAMILIES yahoo group.)
 
We are planning a meeting of a re-energized and expanded Friends of Travers Park with Joseph Block the volunteer coordinator and park wizard from the NYC Parks Departmen. We got some names when we made an earlier request about a month ago, but we want more volunteers on board before we bring him here for the meeting.
 
So let us know if this matters to you and your family - and if you are willing to do something about it. I'm sure most of you are busy, but as they say: "If you want something done, get a busy person to do it."
 
To respond please contact me at LenManiace@gmail.com and for more information like the Green Agenda for Jackson Heights Facebook page.

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Community Groups, Activities & Events / GA4JH- Electronics Waste Recycling Day, Saturday 9/25/2010
« on: September 21, 2010, 12:56:40 PM »
Don't forget Saturday's E-waste program on 78th Street adjacent to Travers Park.
To be  extra eco friendly, please leave your car at home and bring items in a cart. Thank you.

Electronics Recycling Day-
Saturday 9/25/2010, 10am–4pm, Rain or Shine

WE ACCEPT: Working & nonworking computers, monitors, printers,
scanners, keyboards, mice, cables, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, phones, audio/visual equipment, cell phones & PDAs.

Drop Off Site: Travers Park
78th St. Northern Blvd & 34th Ave, Jackson Hts.

Sponsored by the Lower East Side Ecology Center,
lesecologycenter.org
212.477.4022

We’d like to thank the Department of Parks and Recreation
 and Jackson Heights Beautification Group/Friends of Travers Park for hosting this event.


 

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Community Groups, Activities & Events / Pedestrian Plaza and Playstreet
« on: May 18, 2010, 12:53:50 PM »
Two major events this week, the first of which we are counting on you all to attend:
 
1. Urgent Community Board meeting on 78th Street Pedestrian Plaza/Play Street. We've resolved the issue over a police permit. We had to ask for a parade permit, but Monday police said we could walk without one.
 
Meet up @ 78 St. & 34 Ave. @ 7 p.m. We will walk together to the Louis Armstrong School. Please bring kids and signs (no sticks attached to signs, per police). We need to pack the meeting w 300 people. If you live in the 80s or west of 93 St. Street you can meet us on 34 Ave. We will be walking along the northern side of street.
 
The walk will be fun, think of it as a JH version of the Italian after-dinner stroll, la passeggiata. 
 
ALSO. We can use your help to keep this parade on course and safe. We will be walking on the sidewalk, along 34 Ave. To help, please contact me at LenManiace@gmail.com.
 
2. Release of The Green Agenda Report at Travers Park on Saturday 11 a.m. More than two years in the making, with more than 15 community outreach sessions that involved more than 400 people. We will have summary brochure versions for distribution, with the full report available online. The GA4JH is important, but attendence is less crucial.
 
For any questions and/or/ to help, LenManiace@gmail.com. Thank you.
 
Len Maniace

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Community Groups, Activities & Events / BUSY SPRING FOR TRAVERS PARK
« on: April 13, 2008, 10:23:16 PM »
  A lot is going on at Travers Park and the various volunteer Friends teams.
 
     Alexis Andrews and Alfonzo Quiroz have been doing great work on Family Fun Day (May 17 and Summer Sundays in the Park (our performance series in June and August, which will feature our first Grammy nominee performer).
 
     Dudley Stewart is heading our park clean and green team, and also doing translation work on our Summer Sundays poster. Renee Stonebraker will be updating the beautiful poster that she designed for us).
 
     Javier Ramirez-Baron (our community organizer from Queens Commutniy House) is becoming a familiar face in the park. He's been doing park surveys and working to develop park volunteers from our immigrant communities.
 
     Mary Abbate, Donovan Finn, Todd Goldman, Helen Ho, Byron Muñoz, Will Sweeney, Zlati Rothman, Ed Westley and Len Maniace are working on a  grant proposal for a Green Agenda for Jackson Heights that could help make Jackson Height a greener more environmentally sustainable community - deadline April 23.
 
      If we do get this grant, the Green Agenda will be developed out of a series of community meetings this fall. Stay tuned.
 
 

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Neighborhood Chat / baseball, kids and the new NYC ball parks
« on: April 01, 2008, 08:48:05 PM »
I posted this on LoHud.com, website of The Journal News, where I work. Please check it out and if you like it, pass it along. Thanks.

http://parentsplace.lohudblogs.com/author/lmaniace
 
Len Maniace

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Community Groups, Activities & Events / It's My Park Day in Travers Park 2008
« on: March 28, 2008, 09:53:22 PM »
Summer Sundays in the Park - 2008.
Most shows begin at 4 p.m. at Travers Park, 34th Avenue, between 77th and 78th Streets

*June 1:  AudraRox, high-energy rock for kids,
and Astrograss, bluegrass and folk for families

*June 8:  Falu, rock and raga,
and Laura Cantrell and band (folk and country)

*June 22:  Swedish Cottage Marionettes, "Cinderella Samba" - Sponsor: City Parks Foundation

*June 29:  Lucia Pulido Ensemble (experimental take on traditional Colombian song) - from Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series,
plus 2008 Grammy nominee Hector Martignon and his band, Latin Jazz

*Aug. 24: "It's the Economy, Stupid" the newest musical satire from Theater for the New City



And don’t forget:
Family Fun / It’s My Park Day - Saturday morning, May 17.
Sponsored by Friends of Travers Park (a branch of the Jackson Heights Beautification Group) and the Queens Community House.

Fun for the whole family, including performances by bands from P.S. 69, I.S. 145 and I.S. 230, arts and crafts activities, soccer, story time, face painting, and more!

Visit www.itsmypark.org to learn more about It's My Park Day events citywide.

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