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Amersfort Park
News
Volume 1, Issue 2
August September 2015
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Summer Fun Abounds In Our Park!
Urban Forest/
TreesCount! 2015
2
Special Events held
this summer
2
Community Garden
2
Bark Brooklyn
3
Submissions
4
Upcoming Events
Calendar
5
Amersfort Park News
Volume 1, Issue 2
August - September 2015
Written and edited by
D. Rucker
for
Friends of Amersfort Park TM
All rights reserved © 2015
Let’s Dance!
Bark Brooklyn Doggie
Meet-up is one year old.
he Third Annual “FlatPoP!
Summer Movie
Series launched Tuesday, August 4 with
"Annie" (2014). This
beloved second film
remake of the Tony
awarding winning
theatrical production
features the adorable
Quvenzhané Wallis,
Jamie Foxx, and a
Brooklyn resident,
Eden Duncan-Smith
who portrays Isabella,
the oldest of Annie's foster sisters. Ms. DuncanSmith received a proclamation from Council
Member Jumaane D.
Williams.
Tuesday, August 11
was Old School Night
and featured the 1985
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martial arts musical “The
Last Dragon” with a special guest appearance by
The Last Dragon’s star
Taimak Guarriello in
honor of the film’s 30th
anniversary. Prior to the
screening, Council Member Williams presented
Taimak with a special
honor, and Canarsie’s own
Pierre Family- martial
artists Brandon, Aniesha
and Woodlyn Pierre provided a self-defense
demonstration.
Tuesday, August 18 was
Caribbean Night and the
movie shown was "Pan!
Our Musical Odyssey," a
docudrama by Kim Johnson. Children made colorful headpieces with representatives from the West
Indian American Day
Carnival Association. A
performance by the Soca
artist RemBunction made
the night special.
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Cont’d on page 3
See page 3
Photos: Annie Night 1. Families enjoying a night out in the park 2. MC from East Flatbush Village
explains contest to win tickets to the Coney Island Aquarium and Mets games to eager contestants.
It’s an Urban Forest Out There, Folks!
YC Parks has taken on the formidable task of counting and mapping every street tree in our fair city.
This inventory or census of New York City trees, formally known as TreesCount! has taken place every
decade for the past 30 years. Since trees are the lungs of our planet the importance of their health cannot be stressed enough. Trees help keep the city cooler and the air cleaner, not to mention looking fetching
on well-maintained blocks. As this census includes trees in Brooklyn that means your help is needed in mapping the trees on your street. Sign up to become a voluntreer (get it?J)
You don’t need a course in landscape surveying, either. The website for TreesCount 2015 states that voluntreers are trained on how to identify and assess
street trees using simple site surveying tools and software to map them block by
block. I can attest to this being true, as I was trained and empowered within the
hour to get started right away on this rewarding work. Voluntreers are paired up
and are usually given two square blocks to survey at a time. I surveyed Eastern
Parkway and Classon and was amazed that there were 25 trees of about three
varieties on that one block alone. It was rewarding to upload the data and see
our information represented on the website digitally.
I would love to survey the trees that surround Amersfort Park. Perhaps, if we
get enough volunteers we can do the nearby streets as well. I would like to
make this a community project. Time is of the essence. We would have to do
this before the leaves begin to fall off the trees, as that is the easy way to deterTHE BEAUTIFUL TREES
mine species of the trees. Please email us at amersfortparkfriends@yahoo.com
S U R R O U N DI N G A ME R S F O R T
P A R K NE E D O U R A T T E NT I O N.
if you are interested. Or, if you want to make it an initiative of your block association, contact TreesCount! Directly at https://treescount.nycgovparks.org
~ Editor
Thank you for choosing
Amersfort Park for your event.
Fifth Annual Summer Concert, Nieuw Amersfort Community Association
Pre-Labor Day Senior Concert, Council M ember Williams and Assemblywomen Weinstein
Sunday Church Service, Flatlands Christian Center
Revival Meeting, Church Without Walls
Church Without Walls Outdoor Revival, 7/25/2015
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East 43rd Street Community Garden Opens
T
he East 43rd Street
Community Garden,
located at 1087
East 43rd Street (between
Avenue I and Avenue J)
opened on June 27th after a
three-years long
process spearheaded by Council Member Jumaane D.
Williams. The space
is 8,000 square feet
and has a dozen
raised beds for rent,
a designated children’s garden, picnic tables, and garden benches.
The garden was built in
partnership with BrooklynQueens Land Trust and the
East 43rd Street Block Association Community Garden.
At the opening, Williams
said that the garden is to be
a “place for neighbors to
meet and cooperatively
work together, as well as
engage in invaluable educational, cultural and arts ac-
tivities." If you’d like to get
involved contact Dana
Turner, Council Member
Williams' Director of Constituent Services at 718-6292900 or
dturner@council.nyc.gov
A M E R S F O R T P AR K NE W S
Page 3
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2
Bark Brooklyn Doggie Meet-up Marks One Year Anniversary
he coolest social club for canines this side of Kings Highway marked its one year
anniversary in August 2015. Here are a few photos of our dogs in the park this past
year. Join us on 9/12/15: Bark Brooklyn Doggie-Meetup/meetup.com
Read this online at friendsofamersfortpark.weebly.com
Continued from Page 1
Summer Fun….
Tuesday, August 25 will be Community Night and the movie will be "SELMA,"
directed by Ava DuVernay.
The film series is produced by caribBEING,
Shelley Worrell, Founder and Executive Director (caribBEING.com) and is sponsored
by Sesame Flyers, Assembly Members Jumaane D. Williams, N. Nick Perry and Helene Weinstein, New York Mets, New York
Aquarium, Citizens Committee for NYC, and
Con Ed.
Watch Me, Then Watch the Movie
Young people dancing like everyone’s watching (cause we were) to the summer’s
most popular song, “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” by Silentó.
This video will be uploaded soon to Friends of Amersfort Park’s Facebook page.
Listen to the “Watch Me” song here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjW8wmF5VWc
We would like to hear from you.
Would you like to share an image, story or poem about
Amersfort park?
You are also invited to submit an
op-ed related to matters in the
park.
Send by email to amersfortparkfriends@yahoo.com. In the subject
line indicate whether your submission is a of a poem (max: 1),
story (max:150 words), images
(max: 2).
Include your name and phone
number so that we may contact
you if we have questions. Note
we will not publish your phone
number and
will publish
your name
with your
permission.
Team means Together
Everyone Achieves More!
AMERSFORT
PARK NEWS
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E-mail: amersfortparkfriends@yahoo.com
Calendar of Upcoming Events
Ongoing- Girl Scout Recruitment— Girl Scout Troop Building Bridges, 2913. Information: Diane Lewis Ade: 347-791-9023
September
Labor Day, September 7, 2015
First Day of School, September 9, 2015
Primary Election Day, September 10, 2015
Day of Remembrance and Prayer, September 11, 2015
Friends Park Event - Bark Brooklyn Doggie Meet-up— September 12, 2015 8:00am www.meetup.com/BARK-BROOKLYNDOGGIE-MEET-UP/
October
Friends Park Event - Pink In The Park – Walk to support Breast Cancer Research, October 10, 2015
Columbus Day, October 12, 2015
Friends Park Event - It’s My Park Day (Planting bulbs for spring), October 17, 2015
Friends Park Event - Dog, Cat, Kids Halloween Costume Parade, (Noon) October 31, 2015
November
Veterans Day, November 11, 2015
Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2015
December
Friends Park Event - Holiday Tree Lighting, December 2015
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