Queens
Rufus King Park, Queens
Centro Hispano Cuzcatlan and Greater Jamaica Development
Corporation are working with King Manor Museum and the Friends of
King Park to bridge interests and build consensus around use of a
new turf field in Rufus King Park. Bringing together the
community's long-time African American residents and newer Hispanic
users, CHC and GJD build on existing relationships to coordinate
park events, create leadership building workshops linked to park
activities, and work to engage neighbors in long-term park
stewardship opportunities.
Contact Natividad Hernandez
(718) 298-5083
chuzca@aol.com
Contact Reuel Daniels
(718) 291-0282 ext- 126
rdaniels@gjdc.org
Travers Park, Jackson Heights,Queens
Through a partnership with the all-volunteer Friends of Travers
Park and the Jackson Heights-based Community Action Group (a
program of Queens Community House), QCH engages immigrant community
members as park visitors, advocates and programming contributors,
and builds an immigrant presence in park leadership. QCH is setting
and implementing an organizing agenda for park activities that
include preserving and improving the park and expanding the park as
a community center for the community’s diverse residents. This
project serves to: bring an environmental focus to the existing
agenda for the Community Action Group, increase resources for
Travers Park and the Jackson Heights Beautification Group, and
establish a Queens Community-House Friends of Travers Park
partnership that will be mutually beneficial, facilitating ongoing
immigrant involvement and representation in the park.
Contact Anna Dioguardi
(718) 898-7461 - ext. 25
annadioguardi@queenscommunityhouse.org
Flushing Meadows- Corona Park,Queens
The QMA seeks to increase the civic involvement of the newest
New Yorkers, fostering a sense of communal identity and personal
investment in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The QMA will create
pilot program assessing the needs of visitors to the park, assist
the Museum in creating coalitions of communities who use the park,
and encourage neighbors to take ownership of the park through
engagement in park clean-up events and community art festivals. The
QMA will create a collaborative and sustainable program focusing on
the clean-up of the central core of the park closest to the Museum
and produce interactive, bridge-building cultural programming.
Contact Gabriel Roldos
(718)592-9700 - ext. 140
gabriel@queensmuseum.org
