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Selected Press
9/21/21 - LIC Post - “LIC’s Annual Waterfront 5K Draws More Than 1,000 Runners as Race Returns to in-Person Event”
5/11/21 - Wall Street Journal - “New York City Parks Are Fertile Ground for Volunteers During Covid-19”
4/29/21 - QNS - “New cherry trees planted in Long Island City waterfront park”
12/10/20 - QNS - “Hunters Point Parks Conservancy receives grant for Gantry Plaza beautification”
11/19/20 - LIC Post - “Long Island City Parks Group Has Banner Year Despite COVID Setbacks”
10/8/20 - NY1 - “LIC Parks Group: Maintaining City Parks is a Shared Responsibility”
9/21/20 - Patch - “Work By Famed Sculptor Comes To Long Island City Waterfront”
8/5/20 - QNS - “ Hunters Point Parks Conservancy installs high-capacity Bigbelly trash compactors”
3/3/20 - Landscape Architecture Magazine - “The Thin Green Line” - Full spread article on Hunter’s Point South Park
11/13/19 - QNS - “TF Cornerstone honors nine local nonprofits for their work in Long Island City at first ever Game Changer Awards”
10/20/19 - Spectrum News NY1 - “ Bulb Fest preps for bloom, despite Sunday gloom”
9/23/19 - Fast Company - “This public park is a model for urban design in the age of climate crisis”
9/18/19 - Next City - “Bringing Climate to the Classroom in Queens”
7/1/19 - LIC Post - “‘Summer Kids’ Free Programming Returns to Hunters Point South Park Next Week”
6/7/19 - New York Times - “Free Outdoor Movies in New York City this Summer”
3/27/19 - QNS - “Hunters Point Parks Conservancy receives grant to make Gantry Plaza State Park gardens bloom”
8/9/18 - NY Times - “3 Lush Parks Drastically Remake the East River Waterfront”
5/15/17 - LIC Post - “Local parks group awarded $20K grant to revamp signs at Gantry Plaza State Park”
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