Friends of Tompkins Square Park

Friends of Tompkins Square Park is dedicated to restoring & preserving the beauty, health, and safety of Tompkins Square Park for all.

Currently, we are volunteers, without a board or staff. We collaborate together about our cleanup & planting events, share hosting duties along with administrative tasks such as writing grant proposals, creating social media posts and communicating with our community partners. Our identities reflect the creativity of the East Village; we each bring a different yet complementary skill set to our work. We are welcoming, flexible, and empathic with excellent communication skills.

In 2025, we hosted 24 events attended by 512 volunteers who  swept under benches, collected trash, weeded, amended the soil, planted & watered  hundreds of new plants.

• Planted many new species of native plants including one tree, 27 shrubs, over one hundred native perennials along with annuals and vines too numerous to count.

• Planted 2050 Spring bulbs: Daffodils, Grape hyacinth and Siberian squill.

• Sowed 1500 native seeds: Goldenrod, Milkweed and Coneflower.

• Amended the soil with countless wheel barrows of mulch, compost and collected trash.