Roosevelt Islanders came in their most creative and some in spooky costumes today
for the annual Roosevelt Island Halloween Parade starting at Capobianco Field
Roosevelt Island resident and iDig2Learn founder Christina Delfico invites you
to the third annual
City Of Forest Day celebration activities at Roosevelt Island's Lighthouse Park on Saturday October 26. According to Ms Delfico:
Aiming to raise awareness of the natural beauty of Lighthouse Park
surrounding Coler Hospital and the importance of the urban forest,
and the vital role residents play in caring for the “lungs” of our
city, while having fun doing so, three organizations – iDig2Learn,
Main Street Theatre and Dance Alliance (MSTDA) and NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler (Coler Hospital) – are collaborating to host “Forest
for Us” a City of Forest Day event on Roosevelt Island.
This third annual event will celebrate the trees at the northern
tip of Roosevelt Island. The afternoon includes a series of
activities, supporting awareness of trees’ vital role in our local
environment – they stabilize the land capturing rain during storm
events, which reduces flooding, they provide a calming respite for
our mental health, they inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen and
provide food and shelter for birds and butterflies.
One highlight, returning thanks to MSTDA partners, is a performance
from famed dancer Jody Sperling featuring dancers from the Time Lapse Danceensemble, whose work “aims to investigate the relationship of the
moving body to the ecologies we inhabit through performance, media,
education and activism.” From 3:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. the company will perform excerpts from
“Arbor,” an ecologically-themed piece that expresses human kinship
with trees.
Another high point is an underground listening and drawing
experience created for us by interdisciplinary artist Nikki Lindtwho “explores the subterranean world both sonically and visually to
tell stories about the earth’s ecosystems.” She will guide us to
listen through headphones to what her microphones pick up and
encourage us to draw what we hear “revealing surprisingly dramatic
sonic arrays that normally remain hidden from our senses.”
Other activities will spotlight members from the community. Meet
Andi of NiAva’s Body Bar to sample forest-infused body butters
(while supplies last). Mingle with residents of Coler
Hospital for a healthy snack while reveling in peak fall bloom of the sugar
maples and tupelo trees. Enjoy savory appetizers from Jon of Poppa’s
Pantry. Enjoy assembling a take home succulent in a beautifully
handcrafted mini pot from local Winifred’s Collection. Reconnect
with Coach Scot’s baseball players, the Girl Scouts, Roosevelt
Island Garden Club and Haki Compost Collective members who will
guide us to create mulch rings for existing trees planted in 2022.
Attendees will also plant a handful of new trees and be invited to
add professional botanical tree labels into the ground next to the
trees, thanks to iDig2Learn receiving a Green Fund Grant. Cap off
the event with members of the Roosevelt Island Plogging Club who
will invite us to try Plogging while learning more about their
club.
Don’t miss this annual day, especially while Lighthouse Park
trees
are in peak fall color.
iDig2Learn is thrilled to celebrate City of Forest Day and team up
again with Coler Hospital and Main Street Theatre and Dance Alliance
to host this day on Roosevelt Island. Island residents and visitors
alike treasure the island’s trees. No matter how you arrive – by
ferry, subway, tram, bike, bus or foot – you cannot miss the abundance
of greenspace on the island, which has been thoughtfully managed by
the RIOC Grounds Team and supporting partners Trees New York and GRIN.
Since 2022, with the help of these outstanding local partners and the
work of RI Garden Club, Haki Compost Collective and Big Reuse, we have
added 100 new baby trees, growing the urban tree canopy by focusing on
native regional species that are known to support New York City’s
habitat.
I am deeply thankful to our partners who co-create alongside
iDig2Learn, including Girl Scouts, Roosevelt Island Garden Club and
Coach Scot's baseball players and others to make the island
beautiful. I invite everyone – our existing supporters and those new
to our work – to join us for this joyful City of Forest Day to
explore, celebrate and get to know our trees. By seeing the living
trees as a who not a what we can better protect them. And we hope
the tree labels, which were assembled by residents, will enable
visitors to Lighthouse Park to learn more about the trees in the
park and around Coler Hospital for years to come. Each of the
afternoon’s free activities has been designed to inspire us to do
more to help our trees thrive.
Roosevelt Island’s City of Forest Day details include:
● WHEN: Saturday, October 26 – 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.:
● 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. learn about tree stewardship and participate in a community
mulching activity to blanket existing trees, plant a handful more and
add tree labels
● 2:30 p.m. – Meet Coler Hospital neighbors for healthy snacks and enjoy savory bites
by Jon of Poppa’s Pantry
● 2:30 p.m. – join Andi of NiAva’s Body Bar to sample natural Body Butters
● 2:30 p.m. – plant a take home succulent in
a handmade mini pot by Winifred’s
Collection
● 3:00 p.m. – enjoy a 15-minute performance by Jody Sperling’s Time Lapse Dance
ensemble of excerpts from “Arbor”
● 3:30 p.m. – connect with the artist Nikki Lindt for underground listening and drawing as she connects
microphones to trees so we can hear and also draw what
we experience
● 3:30 p.m. – try plogging with the local
teen-led Plogging Club to join in on this invigorating and healthy way to keep
our community clean
WHERE: Roosevelt Island Lighthouse Park, 910 Main St, New York, NY
10044 (the northernmost tip of the island). Please note that in case of rain, the dance performance and
art activity will take place indoors at the Good Shepherd
Church Community Center on Roosevelt Island, 543 Main
Street, New York, New York, 10044 (the dance performance
will be upstairs and the art activity downstairs). For up to
the minute updates on these events, please follow iDig2Learn on Instagram.
This celebration on Roosevelt Island is just one of over 80
taking place throughout New York City on October 26th to
highlight the vital need to better protect, maintain, and
expand the New York City urban forest to benefit all New
Yorkers. iDig2Learn is a part of Forest for All NYC
(FFANYC), a diverse coalition of over 157 organizations
across business, nonprofit, conservation, and environmental
justice sectors that is working to expand the tree canopy of
the urban forest in New York City to 30% by 2035. FFANYC in
partnership with the Parks and Open Space Partners – NYC
Coalition and NYC Parks is presenting this citywide.
The
Washington Post reports that in the Roosevelt Island 10044 zip code, the Biden/Harris campaign
had 424 donors raising $100 thousand and the Trump campaign had 48 donors
raising $8 Thousand.
In most states across the country, more people donated to Vice President
Kamala Harris than to former president Donald Trump.
Registered voters in suburbs were about twice as likely to give to Harris as
to Trump. A vast majority of Trump’s donors under 35 were men. And in the
battleground state of Georgia, where Black voters make up one third of the
electorate, less than 4 percent of Trump donors were Black.
Those are among the findings from a Washington Post analysis of online
contributions to the Trump, Harris and President Joe Biden campaigns,
combined with voter registration data....
NBC News
has this election day countdown report.
NYC early voting begin this
Saturday October 26.
Attention, NYC!
Election Day is just around the corner—Tuesday,
November 5.
Your ballot will have choices for:
🗳️
President 🗳️ Senate 🗳️ House of Representatives 🗳️ State
offices 🗳️ Important ballot proposals
According to the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC):
Dear Roosevelt Island Community:
We will have three special events happening on the island this Saturday, October 26th that we wanted to make sure were marked on your calendars!
RIOC Halloween Parade & Extravaganza
The spooky season is upon us and this year RIOC is once again excited to host its annual Halloween Parade & Extravaganza on Saturday, October 26th!
This year’s event will once again kick-off with a parade down Main Street and proceed all the way to Southpoint Park, where we’ll be hosting Halloween fun for the whole family featuring food, music, pumpkin decorating, inflatable amusements and more!
PARADE DETAILS
Parade participants will gather at 10:00 AM at Capobianco Field (opposite 595 Main Street) then proceed down Main Street starting at 10:45AM to Southpoint Park for the Extravaganza.
Event Information
10:00 AM - Parade organizes at Capobianco Field.
10:45 AM - Parade kick-off, led by PSD/Grounds vehicle. The Parade will head south on Main Street, passing the business district, proceeding to the Blackwell turnaround. Once at Blackwell, the parade will continue south on West Road, passing the subway, ending at Southpoint Park.
11:00 AM - Enter Southpoint Park. Attendees wishing to park strollers will be directed to a designated area outside the park.
11:00 AM to 3:00 PM - If you can’t make the Halloween parade, feel free to join us at Southpoint Park for the Extravaganza! Pumpkin decorating, amusements, food, music, giveaways and more!
Halloween Pop-Up Library at Four Freedoms State Park
The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy is hosting a special Halloween pop-up library and pumpkin decorating event on Saturday, October 26th from 11 AM to 4PM. Come grab a book and decorate a FREE pumpkin (while supplies last). There are a limited numbers of pumpkins, so registration is strongly encouraged at the link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/halloween-pop-up-library-tickets-1048260363967
iDig2Learn, MSTDA, Coler Hospital and more are once again hosting their annual "City of Forest Day" at Lighthouse Park from 2:30PM to 5:30PM. The event will include:
Tree Care: Mulching, Weeding, Planting & Adding New Tree Labels (2:30PM-5:30PM)
Sample Niava's Body Butters (while supplies last) (2:30 PM)
A Performance by Jody Sperling's Time Lapse Dance (3PM-3:15PM)
Artist Nikki Lindt's Underground Listening & Drawing Experience (3:30PM-5PM)
Plogging (3:30PM-4:30PM)
This event is free to the public and all ages are welcome!
Here are scenes
from last year's Roosevelt Island Main Street Halloween Parade.
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Roosevelt Island is a mixed income, racially diverse waterfront community situated in the East River of New York City between Manhattan and Queens and is jurisdictionally part of Manhattan. The Roosevelt Island Tramway, which connects Roosevelt Island to the rest of Manhattan, has become the iconic symbol of Roosevelt Island to its residents.
The Purpose of this Blog is to provide accurate and timely information about Roosevelt Island as well as a forum for residents to express opinions and engage in a dialogue to improve our community.
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