Marine Park is a beautiful place, but it does not maintain itself! Our @NYCParks?workers?are the heart of clean, safe and thriving parks. Building on decades of chronic underfunding, many Parks Department positions have been lost and there are not enough?workers?to adequately care for the city's 1,700+ parks, playgrounds, and recreation facilities. Our parks and?workers?deserve better. Join the Play Fair for Parks Coalition at City Hall on March 20th at 12pm to demand the restoration of funding and positions in the FY26 budget! RSVP:?bit.ly/ParksRally320?
关于我们
Marine Park Alliance assists NYC Parks in its largest Brooklyn property with a mission to provide cultural, environmental, and volunteer programming in Marine Park for the health and well-being of all New Yorkers. To carry out this mission, MPA seeks to elevate this regional park as a southern Brooklyn cultural gem, both ecologically and programmatically. The Alliance provides regular indoor and outdoor cultural events, including a robust volunteer program. We see giving back to the park as a responsibility of all park users and important to the park’s success. All MPA programs are free to the public.
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https://www.marineparkalliance.org/
Marine Park Alliance的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 非营利组织管理
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 总部
- Brooklyn，New York
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2013
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主要
获取路线
3000 Fillmore Ave
US，New York，Brooklyn，11234
Marine Park Alliance员工
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We are so grateful for the support of City Parks Foundation for wildfire recovery efforts here in Marine Park! We also need volunteers to help make this possible. Please contact [email protected] to get involved https://lnkd.in/gNZqJZ5H
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We are so happy to work with Darren from Play NYCe on his Marine Park videos and pleased to share this interview with retired Chief Naturalist Mike Feller ??
When I was invited to make a video about Marine Park in Brooklyn, I was totally onboard. This is Brooklyn’s biggest park and is also a wild place. Marine Park Alliance invited me and we recently had our first real interview with Mike Feller who is the retired head naturalist at NYC Department of Parks & Recreation and grew up near Marine Park. https://lnkd.in/gwrnvHK7
Mike Feller, former NYC Parks head naturalist and his relationship to Marine Park in Brooklyn
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On January 30th, Executive Director Scott Middleton testified to NYC City Council at the oversight hearing on preventing brush fires in parks. "Last fall, NYC’s severe drought caused an unprecedented number of wildfires. The most frequent citywide were in Marine Park," Scott said. "Sustaining these native habitats requires active management and with each round of budget cuts maintenance of natural areas is unfortunately an early casualty." Scott's full testimony is below. View and share with your network to spread the word about restoring natural areas management staff to NYC Parks!
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So happy to help support this important restoration work on New York City shorelines, and to see old Christmas trees get recycled and put to good work!
UPDATE: Thanks to our generous friends at Marine Park Alliance (shout out Scott Middleton), we collected 240 Christmas trees, to become natural breakwaters! ?? --- JBPRC wants your Christmas Trees! Would you like to give your tree a chance to fortify the shores of Jamaica Bay and enrich local parks? Bring your used Christmas tree to NYC Department of Parks & Recreation’s Mulchfest at Brooklyn Marine Park (East 33rd Street and Avenue U), or Queens Rockaway Beach (94th Street and Shorefront Parkway), or any other Mulchfest location, where it can be repurposed in natural areas across the city. Don’t delay! Mulchfest ends on January 12th. ?? Last Spring, our Wetlands Fellows installed 250 Christmas trees to create 600 feet of “fascine” breakwater structures across the West Pond Living Shoreline at National Park Service’s Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. These recycled trees and natural rope helped combat erosion, captured sediment to build elevation and absorbed wave energy to allow the marsh to grow and thrive. ↗? After installation early in the 2024, these fascines enabled freshly planted marsh grasses to grow into lush, wavy clusters in the summer, and well-established plants by the fall. Repeating this process in 2025 will further their expansion. ?? Check out our blog post learn more about this project and how to donate your old tree: https://lnkd.in/e_eYc8pg
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This new report from the Center for an Urban Future calls for a bright idea -- a modest surcharge on tickets sold at the city’s major venues to create a badly need an infusion of funds for parks' growing maintenance needs. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/ecK8umME
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Today is the last day to support Marine Park Alliance in 2024! From free cultural events to our new Teen Leadership Program, our donors give us the resources we need to create a better Marine Park for all New Yorkers.?As the year draws to a close, we are taking the opportunity to thank a few of our strongest supporters and encourage others to join their ranks by visiting https://lnkd.in/e6GMUMKW. Happy New Year! ?
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Great to see this amazing footage from one of our favorite 2024 events!
A barn owl to send you ease in your timeline. I saw this beauty at a NYC Bird Alliance , Marine Park Alliance, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, and Marine Park Alliance event earlier ??this year. I’m a nature documentary filmmaker ???and want to make movies that connect people with nature. ??It’s extremely difficult to be an independent filmmaker, especially if you are an immigrant and disabled. ???? But I don’t want to give up. Please donate to my Kickstarter campaign and become part of the community that makes my ?dream come true. I only have 13 days to meet my campaign goal otherwise I lose all money raised. ?? See the link https://lnkd.in/gbaSAaUf ??to learn more.
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#GivingTuesday This giving season, we are thanking our many donors and supporters who help us care for the park. Meet Kathy, a park lover. Kathy lives near the park and frequently walks with her sister. She noticed Marine Park Alliance programs in the past few years and wanted to invest her time and money. Something about those purple t-shirts! Kathy enjoys helping out children’s craft programs in the summer and in the winter she’s helped us collect audience feedback after performances. Kathy, in the foreground of this photo, has also helped giving out instructions to families at our sun-print workshops. Here’s what Kathy has to say about why she gives to MPA: “Living just a few blocks from the park, it’s important to me to support Marine Park. In fact, I’m a triple whammy. I support Marine Park as a volunteer and a donor and a neighbor.” You don’t have to be a triple whammy. Just one whammy to help the park will do. Visit?marineparkalliance.org?or make your #GivingTuesday gift at https://bit.ly/3OE7Xtp
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In the recent November budget modification, Mayor Adams failed once again to restore basic services to NYC Parks. MPA stands with the #PlayFair coalition, and will continue to call for a reversal of this damaging decision.
Mayor Adams' cuts to NYC Department of Parks & Recreation Parks in the FY25 budget eliminated nearly 800 staffing lines, instated a hiring freeze, and ended crucial programs that families depend on. These actions perpetuate a dangerous trend of disinvestment in parks at a time when these spaces are more critical than ever. By failing to restore basic services and staffing for Parks, NYC Office of the Mayor is endangering New Yorkers and weakening communities. These austerity measures prevent the filling of urgently needed positions, including Parks Enforcement Patrol officers, Natural Resources Group staff, and City Parks Workers, who ensure our parks are safe, clean, and accessible.? Read the full #PlayFair statement: https://bit.ly/3OomMjy
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