Programs
Upcycling Winter Decorations Workshop
Join the Freshkills Park Alliance and NYC Parks Department for an all-ages upcycling winter decoration workshop at our Studio + Gallery on December 18th.
Decorations that end up in a landfill, never to biodegrade isn’t jolly or merry. Did you know you can bypass the waste and enjoy the holidays through upcycling?
...MORESmartphone Photography Tour
Join Photographer-in-Residence Jade Doskow for a special photography tour for smartphone users! This guided tour is an opportunity to see and capture the unique engineered landscape while using technology right from your own pocket. Learn from Jade how to optimize your cell phone’s features and consider lighting, framing, depth, and perspective to shoot spectacular open landscapes!
...MOREPainting Project & Bird Box Restoration @ Freshkills Park
Join the Freshkills Park Alliance for a Painting Project at our Visitor Center. Together we will work to remove old paint from the stairs before applying a fresh new coat of Blue. In addition we will be restoring a few birdhouses to hang around our Visitor center to attract Swallows in the Spring.
...MOREThe Garbage We Inherit / The Garbage We Create: A Poetry Workshop, 10/15/21
Join poets Jenny Pisani and Thomas Fucaloro at the Freshkills Park Studio + Gallery for a special poetry workshop that will take poets (18+) of all levels of experience through the generative and creative process of writing a poem. Following the layers of a landfill cap, poets will work step by step to reflect and deconstruct their process and create a poem that explores the emotional garbage we inherit, hold onto, let go of, and transform into something intentional.
...MORENot-so-Spooky Daffodil Planting @ Freshkills Park Visitor Center
Join the Freshkills Park Alliance for a not-so-spooky clean up at our Visitor center. Help us lay our garden beds to rest by removing invasive species and planting Daffodil bulbs for the Daffodil project at our visitor center. NY4P’s Daffodil Project is the largest volunteer effort in NYC history and living memorial in remembrance of the victims of 9/11.
...MOREWetland Cleanup & Costumed Kayak Tour 10/29/21
Join the Freshkills Park Alliance for a wetland clean up at our Kayak Launch site. Following the clean up volunteers will have the opportunity to Kayak along Freshkills Park’s waterways! This two mile round-trip paddle is a chance to explore the creeks and shorelines of Freshkills Park and experience the wildlife while the site is closed to the public.
...MORESustain-a-ween & Volunteer Landscaping @ Schmul Park 10/16/21
Join the Freshkills Park Alliance and NYC Parks Department for a Sustain-a-ween workshop and volunteer day at Schmul Park on October 16th.
Decorations that end up in a landfill, never to biodegrade is scary. Did you know you can bypass the waste and enjoy Halloween through upcycling?
...MOREAIANY Industrial Waterfront Tour with Classic Harbor Line
The following tour information is provided by Classic Harbor Line:
Key Points about this Tour:
- 3.25 hrs
- $86 per person
- Co-hosted by the AIANY & leadership from Freshkills Park
- Travels through industrial waterways into Freshkills to see the development of what will be a city park 3 times the size of Central Park!
Kayak Tour 10/9/21 @ 9:30 AM
Kayak along Freshkills Park’s waterways! This two mile round-trip paddle is a chance to explore the creeks and shorelines of Freshkills Park and experience the wildlife while the site is closed to the public. We know this program fills quickly and wish we could offer it more frequently.
...MOREVolunteer Landscaping @ Schmul Park 9/25/21
Join the Freshkills Park Alliance and NYC Parks Department for a volunteer day at Schmul Park on September 25th. Summer is officially over and we have to ready our pollinator garden for Fall.
We will lay mulch around our native plants, which helps to insulate the soil, conserve water, and prevent invasive weeds from returning.
...MORENRPA Parks for Pollinator Bioblitz @Freshkills Park 9/10/21
Participate in the NRPA Parks for Pollinator Blitz with Freshkills Park Staff at Freshkills Park. Help support community science, and taking part is easy!
Lace up your shoes for a nature walk at Freshkills Park. Freshkills Park researchers will take you behind the scenes to visit areas that are currently closed to the public.
...MOREDaffodil Project Planting @ The New Springville Greenway
Join NYC Parks Department and Freshkills Park Alliance staff with United Activities Unlimited (UAU) in honoring the 20th annual observance of the attacks on 9/11 through a day of service. As part of NY4Parks Daffodil Project, the largest volunteer effort in NYC history, we will plant Daffodil bulbs and contribute to a living memorial in remembrance of the victims of 9/11.
...MOREVolunteer Landscaping @ Schmul Park 8/28/21
Join the Freshkills Park Alliance and NYC Parks Department for a volunteer day at Schmul Park on August 28th. August 21st was world Honey Bee Day, so let’s help out at Schmul Park and discover ways to get creative in our green spaces and support the bees!
...MOREAIANY Industrial Waterfront Tour with Classic Harbor Line 9/11/21
The following tour information is provided by Classic Harbor Line:
Key Points about this Tour:
- 3.25 hrs
- $86 per person
- Co-hosted by the AIANY & leadership from Freshkills Park
- Travels through industrial waterways into Freshkills to see the development of what will be a city park 3 times the size of Central Park!
Kayak Tour – 9/12/21 @ 11:30 AM
Kayak along Freshkills Park’s waterways! This two mile round-trip paddle is a chance to explore the creeks and shorelines of Freshkills Park and experience the wildlife while the site is closed to the public. We know this program fills quickly and wish we could offer it more frequently.
...MOREMoth Light: Insects and Cyanotypes @ Freshkills Park Studio + Gallery 9/25/21
As a part of the High Line’s Insectageddon, join artist Ash Ferlito for an all-ages evening of mothing and cyanotypes, a time-based photography, at the Freshkills Park Studio + Gallery. Through a process of attracting, studying, and capturing the image of insects to create a visual record, participants will learn about the many moths that call Staten Island home as well as how to explore and capture the likeness of moths on their own!
...MOREInsect Walk with Staten Island Museum @ Freshkills Park 9/25/21
As a part of the High Line’s Insectageddon, all-ages are invited to walk and explore the insects that live at Freshkills Park with the Staten Island Museum’s Director of Natural Sciences Colleen Evans and a Freshkills Park biologist. Pariticpants will use nets to catch and learn about insects up close and see what makes Freshkills an ideal habitat!
...MOREKayak Tour @ Freshkills Park 8/14/21
Kayak along Freshkills Park’s waterways! This two mile round-trip paddle is a chance to explore the creeks and shorelines of Freshkills Park and experience the wildlife while the site is closed to the public. We know this program fills quickly and wish we could offer it more frequently.
...MOREBiodiversity Walk @ Freshkills Park 8/13/2021
Lace up your shoes for a nature walk at Freshkills Park! Freshkills Park researchers will take you behind the scenes to visit areas that are currently closed to the public. On this one-mile walk, you’ll use iNaturalist to share and identify the different plants and animals found in the woods, wetlands, and grasslands at Freshkills Park.
...MOREAIANY Industrial Waterfront Tour with Classic Harbor Line 8/14/21
