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Ongoing Events Across the City

There are many on-going programs in Parks & Recreation that can use volunteers. Click here for more information.

Master Composter Certificate Program
Offered by the Lower East Side Ecology Center.Program includes Training, Volunteer Service, and Fieldtrips. For more information,call (212) 477-4022.

Historic Harlem Parks Spring Newsletter
To view a copy of the newsletter, featuring upcoming events in the parks, click here. To sign up to be on the Historic Harlem Parks newsletter mailing list, email rebecca.scott@parks.nyc.gov.

Old Stone House
Old Stone House is hosting a bunch of fun events for people of all ages this spring. Check out their list of fun events here.

VAN CORTLAND OUTDOORS- SPRING 2005 TEACHER WORKSHOP SERIES
The Friends of Van Cortlandt Park are excited to be offering another teacher workshop series this spring. These workshops are designed to train teachers in using the park as an outdoor lab where lessons come alive for students. They will demonstrate how teachers can use the 1,146 acres of parkland as an outdoor classroom and how you can bring the park inside.

It's Spring at the Red Hook Community Farm!
Come out and join Added Value at our first two community workdays, to celebrate the coming of spring and prepare the garden to grow a bounty of produce! Your help made a great difference last year, we'd love to see you again.

This season, regular community workdays will be held on the first Saturday of each month, starting in April. Additional workdays will be announced on an ongoing basis, and please contact us if you are interested in coming out to help at another time. Bring friends, family and neighbors - many hands make light work!

Please contact Added Value at (718) 855-5531 or www.added-value.org if you have questions or would like information about additional volunteer opportunities, or summer employment for youth ages 14-19.

To canoe through a tranquil salt marsh or camp out under the stars, to navigate a path through snow-covered woods or learn to identify New York City's diverse birds, call 311 and ask for the Urban Park Rangers. Their free weekend activities, designed for naturalists of all ages, are operated out of Parks & Recreation's nature centers, which are located in every borough and open all year. You can also find a calendar of Ranger programs at http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_divisions/urban_park_rangers/pd_ur.html

Volunteer Projects in the Bronx Coordinated by Wave Hill
Plant, prune, clear, fortify! Learn about urban woodland rehabilitation while helping out in Wave Hill's Herbert and Hyonja Abrons Woodland, neighboring Riverdale Park, and other sites in the Bronx. Light refreshments provided. Wear sturdy shoes. Visit http://www.wavehill.org/events/searchby_25.html for project details and times.

City Parks Foundation's Puppets, Children's Theater and Readings in the Parks
Parks throughout the City. To search for a performance near you, visit www.CityParksfoundation.org and use the Event Finder to find performances near you. For more information on these programs you can also call 212.639.1697

Urban Divers/NY Harbor Estuary Monitor Project
If you have a fondness for water and an urge to learn about the city's hidden estuaries you can become an Urban Divers waterway steward. You'll go on weekly outings to collect water-quality samples; monitor fish traps; conduct environmental surveys; organize eco-cruises; or supervise youth education programs and events. With Urban Divers, which works with communities along the NY/NJ Harbor Estuary, you can get involved in projects on the Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek, Coney Island Creek, Bushwick Inlet and Harlem River. To find out more, contact Arthemio Perez or Mitsue Nagase Balan at 718-802-9874 or email urbandivers@urbandivers.org or visit www.urbandivers.org

The 104th Precinct Youth Council Roller Hockey League, Mafera Park, Queens
Description: Now accepting registrations for boys and girls ages 6-17. Also offer a free beginners program for boys and girls ages 5-8.
For more information visit: www.104hockey.com

To post an event on this page, email volunteer@partnershipsforparks.org.

We work with the City Parks Foundation to bring programming to local parks. Check their website for listings of events in parks all across the city.

Lots of the groups that are listed on our Local Greening Groups page have events on their websites too.

We try to keep the information listed here as up to date as possible, however you may call the contact information listed for each event for any possible last-minute changes or cancellations.