Green Park Gardeners NYC
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Green Park Gardeners NYC (GPGNYC) is a group of volunteer gardeners – all residents of the Upper East Side community – dedicated to the care of the East River Esplanade’s Andrew Haswell Green Park, which overlooks the river between 60th and 63rd Streets in Manhattan.
GPGNYC began in 2013 when several gardeners from the East 50s and 60s joined together after Superstorm Sandy to salvage the park, which had been inundated by storm surge.
We are deeply committed to the protection, restoration, and enhancement of our local Upper East Side’s open spaces and to the cultivation of native plants, which beautify our neighborhood and attract and sustain native pollinating insects and bird life.
Our pesticide-free pollinator and native plant garden is a certified Monarch Waystation. We have also joined the Pollinator Pathway, a corridor of public and private properties dedicated to providing habitat for pollinators.
GPGNYC operates with the support of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Friends of the East River Esplanade 60th -120th Streets.