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GREAT NEWS! GARDEN AWARDED NEIGHBORHOOD GRANT
We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Street Garden received a $3000 Neighborhood Grant from the Citizens Committee for New York City. This grant will fund rejuvenating and planting the Garden's raised beds and launching Bees, Butterflies & Worms, a neighborhood-led initiative to educate both children and adults about eco-gardening, habitat creation, urban wildlife and sustainable stewardship.
The project's horticultural activities will be supplemented with hands-on gardening workshops for children and adults that will be scheduled in phases throughout the growing season and led by gardening volunteers and expert practitioners. Details to come.
Thank you Citizens Committee.
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THIS SATURDAY, 10:30 A.M: HISTORIC LITTLE ITALY WALKING TOUR
This Saturday the Garden will host a walk through historic Little Italy as part of The Municipal Art Society’s Jane's Walk NYC. This weekend long, city-wide series of free neighborhood walks honors the enduring legacy of urban activist, Jane Jacobs, who championed the uniqueness of neighborhoods and celebrated the "locals" who keep them strong, livable and resilient.
Historic Little Italy: One Family's Story
Saturday, May 3rd, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Walk Leader: Laurie Fabiano
Meeting Place: Elizabeth Street Garden entrance
Author Laurie Fabiano is back in the Garden to take us on a neighborhood walk based on her own family narratives and captured in the bestseller Elizabeth Street. In her novel she tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century and paints a vivid portrait, not only of immigrants making a new life in a new world, but also of the vicious criminals who preyed on them.
For more information on this walk, please visit Historic Little Italy: One Family's Story.
For detailed information about Jane’s Walk and a full list of events, visit Jane's Walk NYC.
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MAY IS LOWER EAST SIDE HISTORY MONTH
Throughout May, the Garden is participating in LES History Month — a celebration of the rich and diverse history of the Lower East Side. Conceived by LES-based arts and community groups, LES History Month aims to connect our present to our past, exploring how our history can inform and inspire our future.
The Garden will join other LES organizations, in collaboration with the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, and exhibit a Garden Clothesline illustrating the history of the site as a social and civic center for our community. The Clothesline will hang through the month of May,
For additional information about Lower East Side History Month and an event calendar, visit LES History Month.
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GARDENERS' CALL
Thank you to all volunteers who helped with the Spring Clean-Up. The Garden has never looked better!
If you or any of your friends are thinning out perennial beds this spring, please let us know. We gladly accept plant donations. Email aaron@elizabethstreetgarden.org.
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CONNECT WITH US
Volunteer
Get involved. Be a greeter, help with gardening or share your particular expertise. Visit elizabethstreetgarden.org, and click on the Volunteer button.
Introduce Us
If you are a member of a local community organization that is interested in providing free, public events in the Garden, please email us with your suggestions.
Download the Garden Event Calendar
Visit elizabethstreetgarden.org, and click on the Events Calendar tab to view and subscribe with your personal calendar.
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See you in the Garden.
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