EVENTS


 

Bronx Commissioner of Parks

 Hector Aponte at the scoping

for the 4.5 Million Croton Dollars to achieve

Phase one of the Ferry Point Park Master Plan

Check out our Scoping Photos on link below

http://ferrypointpark.org/PhotoAlbums/

DIRECTIONS TO THE PARK   call Dotti if you are lost she lives nearby....cell: 917-741-2768

ALTHOUGH THE AREA IS A MIXED USE NEIGHBORHOOD (Industry and Residential) ,

IT IS A VERY SAFE PLACE TO WALK.

SAFETY TIPS:

STAY AWAY FROM OBVIOUS AREAS OF CONCERN, LIKE DENSE WOODED AREAS.

WALKERS SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE A BUDDY ALONG

THROUGHOUT NYC THERE ARE UNPREDICTABLE HOMELESS PERSONS THAT MAY BE MORE

FRIGHTENED OF YOU THEN YOU ARE OF THEM. SOME FIND TEMPORARY SHELTER IN WOODED AREAS.

Public Transportation: Ferry Point is most easily accessed by the No. 6

train to Parkchester and then the Q 44 bus to the last stop before the

Bronx-Whitestone Bridge (Wenner Place/Rohr Place).

By Bike: The entrance to the partial Greenway is on the West side of the Bronx -Whitestone Bridge

where Brush Ave.ends at Schley Ave.

By car: take the last exit on the Hutchinson River Parkway South, before the

toll booths for the Bronx/Whitestone Bridge (not the Throggs Neck) Bridge....this becomes the "Un-named Ring Road" that leads to the parking lot. Don't go under the bridge or you have pasted the Public Park and are now on the East side which is the Landfill that is planned to become a Golf Course someday.

By Kayak: I'm not sure at low tide but otherwise under the bridge there is a place where I see security boats coming in and out on trailers..... then walk North until you see us.

By Water Taxi/ or Duck Bus:..."In Our Dreams"

FUTURE: Sept.20th       register to help with the global coastal cleanup

NEXT  :  July 19th     

give me some time to recoup....I'll be back

  JOIN US!  July 19th

Help MillionTreesNYC

maintain New York City’s new green neighbors 

Participate in a volunteer tree stewardship day on July 19th. Hosted by NYC Parks and Green Apple Corps, in coordination with “Friends of Ferry Point Park”.

 

This fun-filled and informative event will teach volunteers how to protect and sustain our city’s vital green spaces, while also educating them on some of the invasive plants that are detrimental to the health of our urban trees.

 Stewardship activities will be held at four different sites throughout the city and will include weeding, applying composting mulch and watering planted areas.  

Ferry Point Park

Is a few blocks from Monsignor Scanlan H.S. 

By assisting in the maintenance of our city’s newly planted trees, participants will not only learn about tree stewardship, but they will also be instrumental in ensuring that New York City’s most crucial inhabitants grow strong and healthy for generations to come!

 

Please register to volunteer by contacting Dorothea Poggi

friends@ferrypointpark.org

718-892-7303

716 Brush Ave. Bronx, NY 10465

For use on day of event cell #  917-741-2768 

All events will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Ferry Point Park, Bronx: Nearest subway location:

 Take 6 to Westchester Sq. / Take the Q44 Bus to Wenner Place just one stop past Monsignor Scanlan High School        *Snacks and water available

Wear lightweight long sleeves and pants and bring whatever bug spray and sunblock you like. You will have a great day!!!  

NOTE: Parks can provide shuttle service from the nearest subway stop upon request. The deadline for requests is July 16th. Water and snacks will also be provided.

 

 JUNE    disgusted!   

JUNE 1, 2008 The trees have been up rooted again. Story will be in the Bronx Times Reporter?

Parks Department did not give permission......

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----Original Message-----
From: friends@ferrypointpark.org 
Sent: 6/6/2008 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: FW: High Treeson Re Planting This Sat.

Letter to the Editor:

I regard to your coverage of the 9/11 trees being Vandalized in Ferry
Point Park.

I am sorry to say There is more to the story....
The trees are gone again...
Supposedly they were removed by an
  annonymous civic minded person who
  decided without contacting Parks or
  our "Friends" group that they should
  be moved from this location.
Although it clearly states on the signs that they are not to be touched.
That  they are protected by the Parks Dept.
  and that anyone seeing any problem with  them should contact 311.

The facts are that this civic minded person left
1 tree was barely in the ground,
2 others were left behind up rooted.
The fact that no one would take responsibility for  this action only
leads our group to believe that this person was  afraid they may been
seen so they are claiming  a good deed while they continue to once again
up root these trees.

The Friends group continued it's planned planting of some flowering
plants around the one remaining tree and have put the 2 aside for future
replanting.

Jack Lynch and myself have contacted many  Departments of the Parks
Dept. and have arranged a meeting between Gail Wittwer (Designer  of the
Entire 9/11 Memorial Forest and Grove)  and Tom Russo of Forestry to
determine a designated  replanting area. Tom has stated that Parks may
decide on some slightly larger trees to  make it harder for anyone to
vandalize.

We hope for the best and just want (what by chance happened to be)  the
last simple planting of a nice group of people  in memory of their Son
and Brother along with
14 others that are listed on the Throggs Neck Memorial),  to stay in the
ground,where it can flourish with the rest  of the 3000 trees Kindly
donated by the Prince of Monaco to be the 9/11 Living Memorial Forest of
NYC.






> From: friends@ferrypointpark.org
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 4:55:19 PM
> 
> > The re-planting of the 15 Memorial trees that were vandalized or
stolen out of our Park this Dec. will be this Sat. at 11am at
 Ferry Point Park located under the
> Bronx/Whitestone Bridge.
>
> Dorothea Poggi of "Friends of Ferry Point Park"
> will set up 100 volunteers for a Waterfront Cleanup at 9:30am Then she
> will come back to the Parking lot area where the Lynch Family and
> friends will meet her to re-plant the trees for the
> 15 Throggs Neck Victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 Tragedy.
>
> This planting was originally done in the Fall of 2007 as the last
> planting of the The Memorial Forest (3000 young trees) that are an
> extension of the Flowering Hilltop Grove both donated by the Prince of
> Monaco to give one living tree for each life lost on Sept. 11 to the
> City of NY.
>
> The Lynch Family will also be replanting a particular tree for their
son
> Michael Lynch who they lost at ground zero, on this day.
> These trees were planted last Fall but were torn out by
vandals/theives
> during Dec.
> We recovered 3 of these Black Birch Trees in the nearby woods and they
> will be counted in with the other 12 to again equal the 15 victims of
> Throggs Neck. In the Fall we will add daffodils all around the base of
> these trees to bloom in the Spring of 2009.
>
>
>
>
>
    
   

Finished;

Saturday May 17th is "It's My Park Day"

Join us for a great day of work, fresh air

80 showed and we had a great day also replanted the TN Memorial Trees....

Finished;

Friday April 18th 150 volunteers will do a cleanup with the direction of Friends of Ferry Point Park

Finished;

"fRIENDS" were were given an Honorary Award

on Feb. 13 by Partnership For Parks

It was a miserable day (weather wise) but we got a warm round of applause for the work we have done in Ferry Point Park for the last 5 years. It was rewarding to rub elbows with so many determined, hardworking, park partners.

 

 STILL TO DO LIST: SEND OUT THANKS YOU'S SEND OUT CERTIFICATES

REPLANT TN MEMORIAL TREES again 15 June 2008

Finished;REPLANT TN MEMORIAL TREES passed 15 May 2008

Finished;REPLANT TN MEMORIAL TREES passed 5 Feb. 2008

PLANT MORE DAFFODILS WHEN GROUND DEFROSTS

Finished;

Two 1 hour photo sessions

Sat. Dec. 22nd & Sun. 23th /Between 3:00 and 4:00

Let Dotti shoot and then send your Christmas Family Photo to one email of your choice.

at Dotti's Christmas Yard.

716 BRUSH AVE.

Finished;

SPECIAL FOR EXISTING MEMBERS ONLY : 

Let Dotti take a Holiday Photo of you or your

family at this location (after it is decorated) .

Dotti will then email the photo to one email address of your choice for free.

Or we can send an invite for you or others to view the photo on our community album on “snapfish.com”

When they (or you) open the photo in “snapfish.com” they can then download it, print it yourself, print on one of the many gift items to send directly to your loved ones or have many printed for holiday cards etc. at a good price. Check Dates on www.ferrypointpark.org CURRENT Button

Join us for two 1 hour sessions this year as a “Friend of Ferry Point”

Finished;

PRIVATE "FRIENDS" PARTY

BEING PLANNED AT THE MEETING HALL FOR FRI. NIGHT DEC. 21ST AT 6:30

WRAPS/HOT HORS D'OUVRES, EGGNOG ETC. SERVED call for details

MOST RECENT EVENTS:

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Nov. 24th Dotti replanted 5 trees that were vandalized

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Nov. 16th Jimi planted 10 Oaks somewhere without parks permission

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NOV. 3rd the Lynch Family planted trees

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JOIN US ON HALLOWEEN FOR TRICK OR TREAT AT 716 BRUSH AVENUE

DUSK UNTIL WE RUN OUT OF CANDY / COSTUME CONTEST

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OCT. 27, Remainder of trees will be planted by "Friends", and Msgr. Scanlon volunteers.

Moment of Silence closure to planting of Sept. 11 Forest at dusk, with candles at Soccer Stands.

SORRY CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN.....

Please call us to reschedule your families tree planting.

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Also on Oct. 20th: 1 IN A MILLION TREE PLANTING MAYOR BLOOMBERGS PLANYC PROMISE TO PLANT BY 2030

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Also on Oct. 20th: JOIN US TO PLANT HUNDREDS OF DAFFODILS

THROUGHOUT THE PARK BRING YOUR DAFFODIL PROJECT

TO FERRY POINT AND MAKE IT PART OF THE MEMORIAL FOREST.

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Also on Oct. 20th: "Haunted Hill Trail" signs.and ghosts until you see "FRIENDS OF FERRY POINT PARK " SET UP WITH 300 HOTDOGS & CANDY FOR THE VOLUNTEERS.

Start at the large gravel parking lot and face the park. Stay to the left of the park and walk south. Follow the signs

There will be a table set up for you to Sign in for the tree planting and

ask for whatever give-aways are available for "It's My Park Day".

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OCT.19/FRI.

Great Day, we had some volunteers show up from Wave Hill to join Friends and Green Apple Corp. to work with the other volunteers that came with Parks to plant.

9AM TIL? 700 MEMORIAL SAPLING TREES WERE BE PLANTED

Visit the Monaco Website to learn more about the (country)

Principality that donated these trees--- http://www.visitmonaco.com

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SEPT.29TH

(150) BOOST MOBILE VOLUNTEERS WILL CLEAN

PART OF THE HILLSIDE IN PREPARATION OF THE FLOWERING HILLTOP GROVE MEMORIAL.

THEY WILL ALSO WEED AROUND THE FIRST WAVE OF 1000 TREES PLANTED IN MAY.

Great Idea but They Cancelled on Sept. 20th

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Sept. 9, 2007

Meeting of the Ferry Point Sept.11 Memorial

Forest Comittee at the Water Club

Great Day!!...see you next year

SEPT.15/SAT.

LITTORAL CLEANUP OF THE WATERFRONT

Great Day!!....see you next year

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APRIL 11, 2007

Throggs Neck Feature: Bronx Times Reporter ..... May 3, 2007

9-11 GROVE TO BLOSSOM AT FERRY POINT
By Bret Nolan Collazzi

In a project meant to memorialize the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks and provide a tranquil spot for reflection, the Parks Department will plant a grove of 20 to 30 white flowering redbud trees at the southern tip of Ferry Point Park West later this spring. (FALL)

A separate project will add nearly 3,000 saplings to the park later in the year, one to commemorate each victim of the attacks. That project is being funded by a donation from Prince Albert II of Monaco and carried out through the Parks Department.

The grove, located at a crescent-shaped outlook near the Whitestone Bridge , is the last of five(FOUR) in the city — one in each borough (that faces the — and follows a search by the Parks Department for green spaces that overlook Ground Zero. On a clear day, Ferry Point Park has a direct view of downtown Manhattan .

“Soon after September 11, people were really looking for places to grieve and come together as a community and they used their parks a lot,” said Jennifer Greenfeld, director of the New York Tree Trust, the Parks division overseeing the project. “We realized there was something we could do to give people a place to reflect.”

The memorial sites are called “viewshed groves,” a play on the term “watershed,” the spot where multiple streams empty into one body of water, Greenfeld said. In the case of the memorials, the various groves gaze upon a single spot: the former site of the World Trade Center and the future site of the Freedom Tower .

Typical trees in the grove will stand 10 to 20 feet and create a bold white blossom unlike any other in the mostly green park. A small plaque will explain the project and pay tribute to the victims, she said.

Community Board 10's Parks Committee announced at the last board meeting on April 19 that it had sent a letter to Greenfeld and the grove's designer to thank them for an earlier presentation on the project.

Supporters of Ferry Point Park West also said they are grateful for the project. In fact, the city's search for grove sites perfectly coincided with an independent campaign by the Ferry Point Park West Coalition to create a 9/11 memorial at the park.

“We had requested that since we have a beautiful view of the skyline and we were affected in Throggs Neck very badly as far as the firemen and the police that we lost, we felt that this would be a nice area for a memorial,” said Dorothea Poggi, co-founder of the coalition with Jimi Hughes.

In addition to the sentimental value of the grove, Poggi said the memorial would attract visitors to a rarely used but beautiful part of the park and absorb some of the noise from the bridge.

“It will make the whole area more tranquil,” she said.

The second 9/11-related planting at Ferry Point will add several thousand small flowering saplings in all areas of the park, especially in between athletic fields, around designated picnic areas and near the central parking lot.

“The saplings will create a flowering edge to some of the wild places in the park,” Greenfeld said.

The two planting projects join about $6 million in planned improvements to Ferry Point Park West, including a new comfort station with restrooms and a concession stand.

Funds for those upgrades come from the $220 million in park-improvement funds tied to the construction of a water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park. A master plan for the park is expected sometime this summer.

NEWS! ! May 8, 2007 CSO Meeting at Com. BD 10 about the way the city will solve the raw sewage contamination and floatable debris that enters the Hutch. River and Westchester Creek when the Hunts Point Sewage Treatment Plant is overflowing from the Hurricanes or heavy Rains that enter the Combined Sewer Overflows....

Keep scrolling....big space between next article....

NEWS! ! May 8, 2007 CSO Meeting at Com. BD 10 about the way the city will solve the raw sewage contamination and floatable debris that enters the Hutch. River and Westchester Creek when the Hunts Point Sewage Treatment Plant is overflowing from the Hurricanes or heavy Rains that enter the Combined Sewer Overflows....

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We will always Remember is not just words anymore but a Grove of trees to sit in and view the site of the Twin Towers from each Borough. In ours it will be the Hilltop at Ferry Point Park. These promises to remember may also be backed up with a tree planted for every lost life that day thanks to the Prince of Monaco who felt the need to contribute them. These trees that will hopefully flourish to a ripe old age (the ones in the Park now just reached 70 years old).

Thank you Dorothea Poggi, Jimi Hughes, NYC Parks Forestry, Com. Bd. 10

March 2007 DOROTHEA POGGI Represented the FPPWest Coalition for the third time at the"BRONX PARK SPEAKUP" HELD in the Old Music Building of Lehman College. The many Park involved groups and individuals network with each other to learn more about the different Bronx Parks and how to get more improvements in them.

PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS FOR THE FUTURE OF FERRY POINT PARK

WERE DISPLAYED AND DISCUSSED WITH MANY PARK ADVOCATES.

Transportation Alternatives.... Zerega Ave. Industrial Zone, Bob Bieder

IC Pres. Labyrinth

This is our current plan:

OUR MASTER PLAN AND TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES REP.

PARKS PLAN BELOW

This visual plan is accompanied by a 13 page written plan describing our basic needs now, as well as our future hopes if possible. There is also a brochure of photos and a map of designated problem areas available. If your office would like a presentation, please contact us

This was our 1st draft plan: to try to get input from different sources....it is on a dry erase board so the changes could be made instantly...

Our 2nd intermediate plan Was drawn during the proposed construction of a BJ's Box store on Bruckner that would add 3000 to 6000 vehicles per day to the small community of Ferry Point. Because of this BJ's this plan incorporated the need to suggest a vehicle turn around off of Schley Ave. and Brush Avenue. This turn around would be like a culdisack. It would offer not only an area for large trucks to turn quickly and safely without blockingtraffic, an area for grid lock to back up into, and a parking lot, but also a Holiday Tree Lighting area as well.

We are also planning to incorporate Kyacking, and possibly a Bus Duck on Schley

SCOPING MEETING FOR CROTON FUNDS JULY 6 2006 OR JUNE 7 date on photos?

Commissioner Hector Aponte and others stayed with Jimmy Hughes of the Ferry Point Park West Coalition for a Scoping Tour of the Western Portion of Ferry Point Park after the meeting which was held near Schley Ave. Entrance.

 

Jane Couch, Project Manager and Mike Grattan Parks Supervisor/District Manager

Jane Couch made a pleasant presentation around Dec. of 2006 at the Com. board 10's request to show the draft plans for phase 1 & 2 of the Future Ferry Point. Here are our requested copies, they are available for view at our

MEETING HALL 724 Brush Ave. Bx, NY 10465 by request

Note from Ferry Point Civic Group

Established 1967 Founder Catherine Poggi

Co-Founder Dorothea Poggi

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

718-892-7303 Fax 718-829-7165 www.ferrypointcommunity.org email:dpoggi@ferrypointpark.org

7/31/2006

Following are some notes taken from our last meeting in reference to the scoping meeting by the Parks Dept. pertaining to the allotted Croton Money to be used to develop Ferry Point Park.

Options:

Settle for what the parks dept. wants for the soccer leagues

And storing equipment

Or:

Request a more diversified park

Request a playground for the children w/ sprinkler

Handicap, stroller and bicycle access for the whole park

Plan a Letter writing rally (to Mayor) with news coverage for FPP addition funding to create a real park

To be held at Schley Ave.& Brush Ave. on a soccer Sunday with rain date

Letters requesting the basic treatment that other neighborhoods are getting:

  • Finalizing of golf course ( put a final date required to complete)
  • Balcolm Ave. playground rebuilt as promised
  • Waterfront Greenway extension through West side and golf course to allow all neighborhoods access to the greenway
  • Comfort station to be locked at night and cleaned.
  • Basic Playground for 5000 visitors each weekend
  • Sprinkler to keep the children cool and out of the poluted water with 9 Combined Sewer Overflows in immediate tidal area.
  • Asphalt greenway circling park wide enough for Parks Vehicles which destroy the park while maintaining it when wet.
  • Small Gravel paths throughout that are wheelchair accessible.
  • Evergreen Tree for Holiday lighting
  • 6 gardens at least for such a large park.
  • Help with funding for newsletter and website
  • Garden on Lafayette and Brush Ave.
  • Pocket park on Lafayette plans, where are they?

Dorothea Poggi

Done: SEPT.29 CLARKE UNIVERSITY INTERVUES DOTTI ABOUT ECOLOGY AND ACTIVISTS OF NYC

CANCELLED SEPT. 30, 100 BOOST MOBILE VOLUNTEERS WILL CLEAN THE HILLSIDE IN PREPARATION OF THE HILLTOP GROOVE MEMORIAL

Done: OCT.19, 1500 SMALL GROUP OF MEMORIAL SAPLING TREES WILL BE PLANTED/ ALL WELCOME

Done:OCT. 20, WE NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS IS IT'S MY PARK DAY JOIN 200 VOLUNTEERS/ TO PLANT 1500 TREES AND HUNDREDS OF DAFFODILS THROUGHOUT THE PARK

CANCELLED WEATHER: OCT. 27, 20 PLUS VOLUNTEERS FROM MSGR. SCANLON HS WILL HELP CLOSE UP THIS MEMORIAL FOREST.

THE LAST BUNCH OF YOUNG TREES WILL BE PLANTED TODAY...

WE WILL PROBABLY MEET FOR A CANDLELIGHT MOMENT OF SILENCE AT DUSK (AT THE SOCCER STANDS) TO CLOSE THIS PROJECT ON THE SINCERE, SOLEMN NOTE THAT IT DESERVES. PLEASE REGISTER AHEAD IF INTERESTED LEAVE YOUR NAME AND PHONE ON THE VOICE MAIL AT 718-892-7303 OR EMAIL A NOTE TO friends@ferrypointpark.org

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