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NARROWS BOTANICAL GARDENS
2019 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
– Visit NBG website or Facebook page for news & updates
and EXTRA EVENTS AS THEY OCCUR!!
SATURDAY, MAY 11 – ANNUAL SPRING PLANT EVENT
– (rain or shine)
Time: 10am-3pm – NBG greenhouse specialties and seasonal selections
just in time for spring & Mother’s Day – herbs, fl owering plants & native species
to delight all….
FREE OUTDOOR CINEMA SERIES AT NBG - SUPER HERO SUMMER!
PLEASE NOTE: no RAIN DATES UNLESS specifi cally ANNOUNCED – also no restroom facilities at this location
June 21 – BLACK PANTHER
July 12 – WRECK IT RALPH
July 26 – VERTIGO
(a Hitchcock favorite)
August 16 – WONDER WOMAN
August 23 – SPIDERMAN
SUNDAY, MAY 19 –
STUDENTS POETRY READING & ART SHOW:
Free & fun poetry - for youngsters, children and young at heart
Readings start 12:00 – 2:00 (rain or shine) hosted by Jessica to help welcome
summer to the garden! This is poetry’s 8Th anniversary year and growing…
pre-registration REQUIRED for all readers & registration starts May 1 –
contact Jessica at following email address: botanicalpoetry@gmail.com –
BUT please wait until May 1 for any email questions & registration
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 – NBG HARVEST FESTIVAL
Featuring our annual CANINE COSTUME CONTEST and our talented
crafters, artists and artisans, the great pumpkin patch sponsored by
Three Guys from Brooklyn and more….fun for all ages -
sound system support compliments of Ahltone Communications
Visit Narrows Botanical Gardens facebook page and website
for more info as fall approaches!
All our events are in cooperation with NYC Dept of Parks and Recreation, Partnership for Parks,
The City Parks Foundation, SRPC and City Councilman JUSTIN BRANNAN - we thank them all for their support.
VISIT NBG website NARROWSBG.ORG and our Facebook page / any questions –
email : linda@narrowsbg.org
Canarsie leaders
blast ferry study
NO PIER HERE: Canarsie civic leaders criticized a months-long study by the Economic Development
Corporation that determined a ferry stop should be created in Coney Island and not in Canarsie, calling
it “unfavorable to the neighborhood.” File photo by Steve Schnibbe
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
They’re hoping the city gives into pier pressure.
Canarsie civic leaders blasted the city
after a recent meeting to explain their decision
to forego creation of a local ferry
stop.
Locals scoffed at the city’s explanation,
which was presented to the community on
April 24, saying the neighborhood was ignored
in the decision-making process.
“It was a clear demonstration of Democracy
ignored,” said Marc Want of the
Canarsie Improvement Association. “The
meeting showed us that Canarsie was on
the back burner. The petition of over 6,000
signatures given to Mayor de Blasio demanding
ferry service made no impact.”
The city’s decision to create a ferry stop
in Coney Island, but not at Canarsie Pier,
came after a months long study by the Economic
Development Corporation, the city
agency that oversees the waterborne transportation
system.
Councilman Alan Maisel (D–Canarsie)
criticized that study, saying it was conducted
in a way unfavorable to the neighborhood.
“People want what they want. I thought
the EDC people were forthcoming, but they
didn’t do the kind of study that the people
of Canarsie thought they we going to,” Maisel
said.
Offi cials called ferry trips from Canarsie
Pier to Manhattan impractical for the
approximately 2,000 people who make the
trip daily, because speedier alternatives already
exist, estimating a 65-minute travel
time to Battery Park City using alternative
public transportation.
Want pointed to the limited options
of transportation in the neighborhood —
which are often in a state of disrepair —
and accused city reps of failing to do proper
due diligence.
“It was obvious that no one actually
took a train or interviewed any of the riders
from Canarsie,” he said. “Most Canarsie
residents have to take a bus or drive to
a train stop.”
City reps also contended that a potential
Canarsie Pier ferry stop would only service
a limited number of people. Maisel, who attended
the meeting, argued their projected
ridership was inaccurate.
“There’s that old saying, ‘If you build
it they will come.’ Maybe this is what we
need,” the councilman said. “But now, we
just need to convince the city. I think it
should be included.”
One major logistical concern city offi -
cials presented involved legal access to the
pier, which is currently operated by the National
Parks services, a federal government
agency.
Maisel acknowledged the challenges
with getting permission to use the dock,
and vowed to work to work with federal
reps to secure future approval, in the event
that the city chooses to expand ferry service
further.
“We could stand on our heads from today
until next year, but it’s not going to
happen on this go around. But, it’s going
to come up again, because the city is going
to select more sites,” he said. “In the meantime,
what should be done is to work with
the National Parks Service in advance of
the possibility of getting a ferry stop there
next time around, in two or three years.
That would be done through the offi ce of
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries.”
Want vowed to continue the fi ght to ensure
Canarsie Pier would be among the
next locations selected by the city for ferry
access.
“We are going to address this with our
political representatives and demand a
proper evaluation with collaboration of
neighborhood residents,” he said.
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