Happy to have had my ongoing NYC parks and open spaces video series be featured on What’s the Big Idea, a web series profiling New Yorkers trying to make the city a better place.
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I met Paula at Marine Park in Brooklyn and she introduced me to Annesia, who is a climate scientist. They both met with me to be interviewed by Marine Park Alliance head Scott Middleton to share their reflections about Brooklyn’s biggest city park @nycgovparks.org
I asked fellow @nycgovparks.org explorer Chris Todd to interview Marine Park Alliance head Scott Middleton for my documentary about Brooklyn’s biggest park, which Scott had initiated late last year.
Mike Feller is the retired Chief Naturalist of @nycgovparks.org and here he talks with Scott Middleton of Marine Park Alliance about Marine Park in Brooklyn which is the biggest park in Brooklyn. Mike was born and raised near the park which is located is South Brooklyn near Jamaica Bay
William Douglas King is a master photographer who has been documenting Marine Park in Brooklyn since the 1980’s. Marine Park is the largest park in Brooklyn and has a large wetlands area which Bill refers to as the living marsh @nycgovparks.org
@dannyfingeroth.bsky.social and Roy Schwartz discuss the origin of Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger at Poe Park in The Bronx which is named for Edgar Allan Poe and contains the Poe Cottage, the last place Poe had lived.
Richard Dattner is a renowned Architect who designed many playgrounds in Central Park. All the playgrounds in Central Park were originally built by Robert Moses in 1936. The site that became Adventure Playground was threatened by Moses in 1956 for a parking lot the community stopped him.
Former NYC Council Member Robert Cornegy Jr. talks about the renaming of the basketball ball courts at Crispus Attucks Playground in honor of Christopher “Biggie” Wallace and the challenges he faced. FYI Crispus Attucks Playground was the first public site in NYC named for a black person.
Roger McCormack from the Bronx Historical Society talks about Edgar Allan Poe and his life in the Bronx while living at the Poe Cottage in the neighborhood of Fordham
Harvey Epstein is a New York State Assembly Member whose name was parodied on @saturdaynightlive.bsky.social by @johnmulaney7.bsky.social and here @kevokeefe.bsky.social from St. Vartan Park Conservancy introduces him at an event unveiling a ADA accesible path in the parks garden.
Joseph Reiver heads Elizabeth Street Garden in the Lower East Side, a garden that his father had opened over 30 years ago and it is facing demolition for development. He speaks at a rally for community gardens at at City Hall in Manhattan @greenthumbnyc.bsky.social
Jade grew up near Marine Park and talks about her relationship to Brooklyn’s biggest park after taking part in a trail maintainer’s program hosted by @naturalareasnyc.bsky.social
Fellow NYC Park explorer Christopher Todd who is going to every @nycgovparks.org from A-Z talks to former NYC Council Member Robert Cornegy as part of the short documentary I made about Crispus Attucks Playground in Brooklyn
If climate change is warming the planet, why is it so cold outside? With help from NAC researcher Jeffrey Clark, we clear up this question in our latest blog post! In short, climate change increases the likelihood of unpredictable weather. Learn more and how natural areas could help: bit.ly/4jW8vtb
Scott Middleton runs Marine Park Alliance and Marine Park is Brooklyn’s biggest park. He wants to raise the profile of the park by offering robust programming to the community and here we attended a trail maintenance program hosted by @naturalareasnyc.bsky.social Marine Park is a special place.
So I am new to this platform but wanted to share some videos I have been working on. Here Melissa Rosenthal from @naturalareasnyc.bsky.social talks about here work and specifically at Marine Park in Brooklyn
