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Status of the 78th St Play Street is in jeopardy

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The Jackson Heights Green Alliance has just learned that the Department of Transportation is considering revoking our permit for the 78th Street Play Street for the month of September.
The Garden School is pressuring the Dept of Transportation to allow cars back on the street now.
This will put at risk everything the community has worked toward to create this important and much needed community open space.
In the meanwhile, please exercise caution and be aware that car traffic may return to the street without warning. We will update you as soon as we learn anything.
WE NEED YOUR HELP.

Please send an email to Council Member Daniel Dromm to express how important the 78th Street Play Street is to our community. His email address is:

You can also call his office at: 718-803-6373
Jackson Heights Green Alliance

Imagine More Park Space in the Neighborhood

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Help us create more parks and public space!

78th Street Visioning Workshop
Saturday, June 4th
9 am – 11:30 am
St. Marks Church 33-50 82nd Street

Friends and neighbors:

You have been great supporters of the 78th Play Street and the Grow A Park initiative. Now join us to create a collaborative vision for the future of the 78th Play Street / Temporary Plaza, and imagine what an expanded park could be like at the Garden School athletic field.

Let’s build a great community destination together!

We respect your time and promise a fast-paced, engaging, participatory workshop. Bring your walking shoes.

Thanks to a generous offer by 82nd Street Academics child-care will be available! In addition, Jackson Heights ELC will make their play equipment available for our use!

You can download a flyer here in English, here in Spanish and here in Bengali.

Help raise money to support the Play Street!

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Help raise money to support the Play Street!

The Jackson Heights Green Alliance has partnered with online donation website ioby to raise funds for the improvements to the Play Street for 2011.

This summer we want the Play Street to be better than ever. In particular, we hope to get better outdoor furniture, better sun canopies, and more sports equipment, among other improvements. But we need to raise money, and right now ioby is offering a special program. All donations to the Play Street through ioby will be matched dollar for dollar. In other words, if we raise $800 we’ll get the $1,600 we need. Even if you can only give a few dollars, this is a huge opportunity for us and we hope you can help. No donation is too small, especially since everything is doubled!!

All transactions are secure, and ioby accepts all major credit cards.

For a direct link to our project page on ioby, visit:

http://ioby.org/projects/queens/jackson-heights-78th-street-playstreet

The matching contributions only last until April 30, so please don’t delay. Thank you for all that you do to make Jackson Heights a more livable place!!

(Note: There is a donation match cap of $200 for individual donations, though donors are welcome to contribute more. As folks donate to your project, the match amount will appear within 12 hours of a donation.)