‘Golden Trowel’ for Kissena Corridor Park group
Conservancy earns honors for their constant efforts to keep Flushing greenspace beautiful
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
The Kissena Corridor Park
Conservancy was delighted to
be honored on March 27 with
an award for their commitment
to transforming the park
through service, advocacy
and collaboration.
Partnership for Parks
held its sixth annual “It’s My
Park Awards Reception” at
the Prince George Ballroom,
located at 15 E 27th St. in
Manhattan, recognizing this
year’s seven outstanding
community groups selected
from over 280 that participated
in the 2018 It’s My Park
program, which engages
volunteers in hands-on service
projects throughout New York
City neighborhood parks.
Serving the Flushing
community since 2006,
The Kissena Corridor Park
Conservancy received the
Golden Trowel Award, which
recognizes volunteers’
commitment to transforming
their parks and green
spaces into dynamic
community assets.
“It’s feels very good to be
picked out in the community
to receive such a prestigious
award,” said Chuck Wade,
president of The Kissena
Corridor Park Conservancy.
“We are all thrilled by it —
Dorothy Woo, Carol Marrone,
Denise Winters, and a few other
people who were there for the
recognition. We’re sorry that
Claudette Trimingham didn’t
make it, but we certainly thank
her and other people who have
helped in the last 10 years to
finally get the Kissena Park
Conservancy in preparation
for a new park.”
For well over a decade, the
conservancy has been working
with NYC Parks to care for the
vast, open spaces of the 100-
acre park.
The conservancy runs
two It’s My Park projects a
year, bringing out almost
150 community members
to volunteer. Members
are engaged through park
The Kissena Park Corridor Conservancy, winner of the Golden
Trowel Award, at the 2019 “It’s My Park Awards Reception”
held on March 27 at Prince George Ballroom in Manhattan.
Photo by Danny Avila, NYC Parks
beautification projects,
conservation efforts, and
public education.
Encompassing most of
the parkland of eastern
Queens, Kissena Corridor
Park hosts basketball and
handball courts, baseball,
cricket, football, and soccer
fields, fitness equipment, and
multiple playgrounds.
Because of the park’s
expansive size and abundant
natural space, it had become
a site for crime. To address
this, the conservancy worked
with Councilman Peter Koo
to secure two NYC Parks
enforcement officers to
patrol the area. In 2018, the
conservancy hosted their first
movie night and successfully
advocated for funding for
capital improvement projects
throughout the park, including
a meditation garden.
“This meditation garden
will be a place of solace and
mediation for patients in the
Oncology Center at NewYork-
Presbyterian Queens Hospital,
and we’re very happy that
Commissioner Lewandowski
and the borough president saw
this is accomplished before the
term ends,” said Wade.
Thus far, additional
improvements include a new
wood chip trail created next
to the 146th Street playground
entrance at 56th Road,
recreation of the silent spring
playground, and lighting
throughout the park.
Reach reporter Carlotta
Mohamed by e-mail at
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.
com or by phone at (718)
260–4526.
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