Central Park

The Daily Plant : Friday, October 18, 2002

DAFFODIL PROJECT 2002 LAUNCHES DURING PARKS’ FALL "IT’S MY PARK DAY!"

Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe will join celebrated public Garden Designer and Co-Chair of New Yorkers for Parks Lynden B. Miller and Council Member Joseph Addabbo to kick-off Daffodil Project 2002 at this fall’s "It’s My Park Day" on October 19. Daffodil Project 2002 will continue the living memorial that began last fall. Also joining these distinguished guests will be representatives from Friends of St. Nicholas Park, the West Harlem Art Fund and Teenagers from Urban Dove. This year 4,000 volunteers at almost 200 parks will help plant a total of 500,000 daffodil bulbs. Across the City, adults and children will flock to their neighborhood park to lend a hand, plant a bulb, and help keep our parks clean and green.

With "It’s My Park Day!", the City also kicks off it’s fall planting season. On Saturday, October 19, over 4,000 volunteers will pitch in to rake, paint and clean their neighborhood park. This year, the volunteers will also be planting over 100,000 daffodil bulbs in all five boroughs. The daffodil planting will continue through the beginning of November at various city parks until all 500,000 new bulbs from Hans Van Waardenburg of B&K FlowerBulbs in the Netherlands are in place. Daffodil Project 2002 brings the City’s grand total of daffodils planted to over 2 million.

After the September 11 attacks many New Yorkers searched for ways to volunteer and help the city heal. The Daffodil Project was launched on Saturday, October 20, 2001 as a citywide initiative to create a living memorial of hope. Last year, over 10,000 volunteers came together to plant 1.5 million daffodils in all five boroughs. This spring all of the yellow flowers of the Daffodil Project will bloom creating vast "fields of gold" throughout the City.

Parks in collaboration with New Yorkers for Parks, City Parks Foundation, Partnerships for Parks, the Central Park Conservancy, the Riverside Park Fund, and community organizations have led the way to plant these daffodil bulbs in parks and planting areas. International Bulb Company and JPMorgan Chase also helped to make Daffodil Project 2002 possible. To find out more about "It’s My Park" Day and Daffodil Project 2002, visit www.itsmypark.org

Learn more about the Daffodil Project.

THIRTEEN YEARS AGO IN THE PLANT

(Friday, October 27, 1989)

As part of Good Health Week in New York, approximately 70 Parks food concessionaires, from pushcart owners to French-trained chefs, flocked to Central Park’s Tavern on the Green, a preeminent Parks food concession, to enjoy a health-food breakfast hosted by Parks’ Revenue division. The breakfast featured guest speaker Marian Burros, a New York Times food columnist.

Standing in front of a buffet bearing carrot, banana walnut and oat nut bran muffins; seven-grain bread; vanilla yogurt; wheat germ and granola; natural apple-crumb cake; a fresh fruit platter; and four kinds of fresh-squeezed juices, the concessionaires mingled and talked turkey (dogs).

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