Green Shores NYC

12/05/2024

A few spots are available for our Waterfront Nature Walk this coming Sunday, December 8th! RSVP to [email protected]

09/28/2023

The exhibition Emerging Ecologies, currently running at MoMA, focuses on how architects responded to the ecology movement in the 1960s and 1970s. In audio excerpts, contemporary architects and pundits look back at these projects:

Exhibition. Through Jan 20, 2024. Buildings produce nearly 40% of the world’s yearly carbon emissions. Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism explores how architects in the US responded to the environmental crisis of the 1960s and 1970s, when concern with rising pollutio...

07/29/2023

We are entering the dog days of summer and our favorite place to be is in our waterfront parks!

It's been a while but we are back this July, August & September with free family-friendly programming in Astoria, Rainey & Queensbridge Parks.

Join us for Family Yoga & Mindfulness in Astoria & Rainey Parks and stay tuned for additional programming announcements.

We salute our partners in enlivening the Queens East River waterfront Socrates Sculpture Park Friends Of Wh**ey Ford Field - Queens, NY Hunters Point Parks Conservancy Astoria Park Alliance Friends of Queensbridge Park Friends of Ralph Demarco Park Long Island City Community Boathouse

07/27/2023

Councilman Bob Holden in collaboration with the NYC DEP will host a rain barrel giveaway in Juniper Valley Park (80th Street between Juniper Boulevard North and Juniper Boulevard South), from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, August 12:

Councilman Robert Holden in collaboration with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will host a free rain barrel giveaway in Middle

07/15/2023

To all Our Astoria Friends who've been asking about our 2023 Waterfront Movie Series, YES ITS BACK!!!

SAVE the DATES!
-->> On Monday evenings at SUNSET, from July 31st -August 21st.

Bring friends, a chair/blanket and enjoy!!!

This Movie Series is made possible through funding provided by Council Member Tiffany Cabán and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council.

11/17/2022

The EDC's public feedback comment period on the proposed new LIC ferry terminal ends tomorrow, amid calls for extending the comment period and concerns from local groups:

Nov. 10, 2022 By Michael Dorgan The final date for the public to provide feedback on a proposed new ferry terminal at Hunter Point South Park is fast

09/07/2022

Please join Hunters Point Parks Conservancy this Friday Sept 9 at sunset for a screening of "Encanto":
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Join us this Friday, September 9 for our final CinemaLIC screening of the year! We'll be showing Disney's Encanto starting at sunset (around 7:30pm) in Hunter's Point South Park.

Thank you to for sponsoring this screening.

06/29/2022

The party starts at 7.30 tonight 🎆 Come on down to Astoria Park and join in the fun!

Are you coming to the celebration tomorrow? We've got a performance from Swingtime Big Band and fireworks by Fireworks by Grucci! This year's celebration is brought to you by Council Member Tiffany Cabán, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Council Member Julie Won, Con Edison, First Central Savings Bank, Atlantic Bank and Webster Bank

04/03/2022

Spring Break Fun in the Park sounds like it's gonna be tons of fun! On Tuesday April 19 from noon to 2.30 pm at Playground, sponsored by Central Astoria LDC

01/27/2022

Some good news about monarch butterflies: hopefully the East Coast will see a similar rebound

The latest survey from the Xerces Society counted 247,237 butterflies across 283 sites in the 25th annual Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count

01/01/2022

Happy New Year!

12/09/2021

The Noguchi Museum, the Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens, Randall's Island Park Alliance, Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC), Flux Factory, Queens Council on the Arts, Central Astoria LDC, and Socrates Sculpture Park are among the recipients of $51.4 million in grants made to more than 1,000 nonprofit arts organizations by New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, it was announced today.
Full list of awardees here:
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dcla/downloads/pdf/FY22-CDF-Grantees.pdf