Hook Creek Park Wetlands-Wildlife Community Cleanup 2025

Description

Rosedale Preservation Society Community Cleanup
The mission and focus of the neighborhood wetlands-street cleanup is sanitation maintenance-care and education-attention to the wetlands environment at Hook Creek Park, a natural wetlands preservation and bird-fish-wildlife habitat.

Hook Creek Cleanup: This foundational community street cleanup will target the Hook Creek wetlands environment and sixty (60+) street tree beds which are exposed-prone to illegal commercial vehicles, excessive debris-garbage-trash disposal, and unsanitary dog walkers. -- (on Huxley Streets adjacent to wetlands and at the canoe-kayak launch).

Event Meeting Location
HOOK CREEK PARK, Huxley Streets at Craft Avenue - 149th Avenue, Rosedale (Queens), New York 11422

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Ongoing Projects

* Hook Creek Park (HCP) Wetlands-Wildlife Walking Tour ... (30-45-minutes, area preference)
* DSNY-SF-Sanitation "Community Cleanup" (sidewalks-streets, street tree beds, wetlands)
* NYC-DPR-Parks "Street Tree Care" (street tree beds, aeration-mulch, wood chips)
* NYC-DPR "Greenstreets Care" (garden bed planting-weeding, 5-street intersections)
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**Citizen Scientist Research** ... (ongoing, monthly)
* NYC-DPR-Parks "Street Tree Habitats" Project ... (pollinator plants tree beds, ground preparation)

 * New York Sea Grant + SRIJB | Community Coastal Flooding ... (advocacy, monitoring, training)


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Community Clean-Up Walkthrough-Outreach.
The neighborhood wetlands-street cleanup will include a community walkthrough to outreach to property owners, community members-residents, and our supportive volunteer visitors.  The plan is for one to three (1-3) hours of community stewardship on the weekends (Friday-Saturday-Sunday), on an as needed basis.  The plan is to recruit-engage additional volunteers through community canvassing, targeting the property owners who live near and community members who frequent higher profile areas, including local businesses.

This is a community call-to-action for environmental impact awareness. Inquire about being a community 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) steward for your block-community-neighborhood.

Details

Get Connected Icon Volunteers should be between the ages of 8 and 100.
Get Connected Icon Is Family Friendly
Get Connected Icon Is Outdoors
Inclement Weather Plan: In case of inclement weather, the event-project will occur on the next date-same time, Sunday, March 1-2, 2025, April 5-6, 22, 26-27, 2025, May 3-4, 24-25, 2025, June 7-8, 2025, September 6-7, 2025, November 1-2, 2025, and/or December 6-7, 2025 10:00am-1:00pm. Shifts Completed:
Get Connected Icon Appropriate Attire: Closed sturdy boots-shoes, long pants-sleeves and clothing that can get damaged-dirty-torn. Adult-chaperone must accompany volunteers under the age of eighteen (-18) years of age.
Get Connected Icon Space and supplies may be limited and registration is required. To sign up a group of five (5+) or more volunteers please contact via electronic mail in advance of three days.

Location

Get Connected Icon Huxley Street at Craft Avenue - 149th Avenue
Rosedale, NY  11422

Shifts

Begins Duration Open Spots Sign Up
Sat Nov 1, 2025 @ 10:00am
to 1:00pm ET
3.00 hours 11 of 11
Sat Dec 6, 2025 @ 10:00am
to 1:00pm ET
3.00 hours 11 of 11