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Photo by Daniel Avila/NYC Parks.Mulchfest 2016 was a big success, with 1,107 trees mulched this past weekend at Fort Greene Park! That news is bittersweet, though: it only put us in third place citywide, although we still hold the record — earned last year! — of 1,743 trees
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Photo via parkservice [https://www.instagram.com/p/xof8_tqE3W/?tagged=mulchfest2015]Fort Greene Park holds the record for most trees mulched at a single site in Brooklyn — last year our team mulched 1,743 trees! [/blog/2015/01/13/fort-greene-parks-mulchfest-2015-sets-record/] — so let’s see if we can meet or
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Photo via Fort Greene Park Conservancy.If you’ve ever wondered what happens to the small boulders and other chunks of rock unearthed during construction projects such as the excavation at the Willoughby Avenue entrance to Fort Greene Park, here’s your answer: in many cases, they’re recycled. In
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Photo by Megan McGibney/Fort Greene Park.BY MEGAN MCGIBNEY The second annual Fort Greene Park holiday tree lighting festivities returned at dusk this Sunday, December 6, for an even larger celebration of community and fun. About 400 people, mostly young families, gathered at the corner of Washington and Myrtle
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Photo via Fort Greene Park Conservancy.If you’d like to join your neighbors for one of the next park cleanups this autumn, sign up now. There will be two volunteer days this October: Saturday, October 3, and Saturday, October 17. September cleanups have already yielded “serious dents in the
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Photo by Fort Greene FocusSeveral people have asked us what the status of construction is over at the Willoughby Avenue entrance to Fort Greene Park and after asking around, it still seems to be on track for a November completion. Construction was “50 percent complete” back in May [/blog/2015/
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Image via Fort Greene Park Conservancy.A message from the Fort Greene Park Conservancy [http://www.fortgreenepark.org/] has announced that reconstruction of the Willoughby Avenue Entrance “is 50 percent complete” and is scheduled to be done — ready for reopening — by November/December 2015, according to the NYC Parks Capital
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NYC Park workers Miriam Morales, Sonya Holmes, and Lord Rhodes pick out glass pieces from Fort Greene Park’s greenery. (Photo courtesy of David Barker/NYC Parks.)Tonight, Fort Greene residents will be meeting to discuss a proposed restoration of Park lawns [/blog/2015/02/10/tomorrow-discuss-can-love-lawn-fort-greene-park/] as part of
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Photo courtesy of Charles Jarden [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152478720252493&set=a.10152478716487493.1073741836.556497492&type=1&permPage=1] .MulchFest 2015 was a smashing success at Fort Greene Park this past weekend, with a record 1,743 trees mulched — the most of any park
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If you regularly find yourself (and perhaps your very messy dog or child) struggling through the mud while trying to enter Fort Greene Park from Willoughby Avenue, rejoice! Work is underway to keep the park’s squishiest entrance sufficiently dry from here on out. Neighbor Francisco Daum [https://www.flickr.
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Our area’s rich literary history will continue at 2pm on Saturday, August 23 with the 2014 Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival [http://nywriterscoalition.org/2014/07/17/6963/], to be held at the Prison Ship Martyr’s Monument. This year’s lineup includes Master of Ceremonies (and Rolling