City Year NYC Volunteers In Stuyvesant Cove Park

volunteers w/wheelbarrows

On April 23 & 24, Stuyvesant Cove Park was host to a group of volunteers from City Year NYC. City Year is one of the largest youth service corps in the country, with initiatives that focus on community needs. The three areas of service initiatives that City Year focuses on are: School based service which puts corp members in schools as tutors, mentors, and leaders of afterschool programs; youth leadership which teaches elementary, middle, and high school students their ability to make a difference on an individual basis; and lastly, community transformation, where corp members physically help their community by volunteering on-site at local organizations.

The two days of service provided by City Year were a great help to Stuyvesant Cove Park. The first day, volunteers helped finish up mulching park pathways, part of a project started by NY Cares a few weeks ago. This was a large project that, between the two organizations, took 25 volunteers a total of 5 hours to complete. It was a labor intensive project that would not have been possible without the help from City Year NYC. The second day of service by City Year NYC was made up of volunteers cutting back last year’s growth, pulling weeds that have already started growing, and scrubbing soda and juice stains off the park esplanade.

volunteers-brooms

The staff at Solar One would like to thank City Year NYC for their hard work and dedication in helping maintain Stuyvesant Cove Park.


Posted on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 3:05 pm | Tagged in Native Plants, Stuyvesant Cove Park, Sustainability | posted by Melissa

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