Rosedale Preservation Society Community Cleanup
in collaboration with Brookville Park and Brookville Civic Association (SRCAA)
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.
Brookville Cleanup: This expanded community street cleanup will target the Brookville wetlands environment and commercial business districts which are prone to illegal commercial dumping and excessive debris-garbage-trash disposal. -- (on 230th Street adjacent to wetlands at the Brookfield School).
Event Meeting Location
. BROOKVILLE WETLANDS, 148th Avenue intersected at 226th Street - 230th Street, Brookville (Queens), New York 11413
. FDNY ENGINE 314 Hook and Ladder - Long Island Railroad (LIRR) North Conduit intersected at Brookville Boulevard, Francis Lewis Boulevard, Rosedale (Queens), New York 11422
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News-Reports:
. Gothamist: Southeast Queens residents say truckers use their neighborhood as a parking lot [(article)](https://gothamist.com/news/southeast-queens-residents-say-truckers-use-their-neighborhood-as-a-parking-lot)
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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)
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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.
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.
