Live Music Sunday: Richard Mistri and Beau
Our biweekly summer concert series continues. Richard Mistri and Beau a perform this weekend in the Garden.
Open to the public and FREE.
Public Press Conference, in Response to City’s Invitation to Developers to Submit Proposals to Destroy Elizabeth Street Garden
City Invites Developers to Submit Proposals to Destroy Elizabeth Street Garden:
Garden Supporters Vow to Fight!
Join Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden at a press conference from 1 – 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21 at Elizabeth Street Garden to let the mayor and city council know that our community will not be ignored and that Elizabeth Street Garden should be saved!
Yesterday, NYC Housing Preservation and Development invited developers to submit proposals to destroy Elizabeth Street Garden, our beloved neighborhood green space in the heart of historic Little Italy. Garden supporters, who have worked tirelessly for the past three years to transform the beautiful garden into a virtual outdoor community center, vow to fight to save what many refer to as the “soul of the neighborhood.”
“The City has repeatedly threatened to move forward with plans to build on the Garden, and we knew this day would come,” said Jeannine Kiely, president of Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden. “We will not back down and allow real estate developers and elected officials to ignore us any longer. Council Member Chin has turned a deaf ear to her constituents, who overwhelmingly support saving Elizabeth Street Garden. Unfortunately, the administration is once again allowing politics to determine policy, despite receiving 4,500 community letters in support of saving the Garden and despite Manhattan Community Board 2’s recommendation for an alternative site with the potential for five times more affordable housing.”
Open to the public and FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat, if you have one.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat, if you have one.
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Author Catherine Adami Reads From On Elizabeth Street, as part of the Fifth Annual LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) Harvest Arts Festival
What if you had a weekend in New York City to pretend you were the person you always thought you could be?
Catherine Adami reads from her comedy On Elizabeth Street about two college friends and former lovers, now in their forties, who are given a second chance to connect with one another during a summer weekend at an apartment on Elizabeth Street. The couple’s adventures include visits to many downtown jewels, including Elizabeth Street Garden.
Catherine Adami grew up a pool hustler’s daughter with a VIP pass to subterranean America. A prolific essayist and screenwriter, she is a proud alumna of Francis W. Parker School, Tulane University and NYU’s Summer Fiction Writing Program. Her article “The Epitome of Cool,” about her late father Freddy ‘the Beard’ Bentivegna and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet, appeared in Billiards Digest Magazine. Her debut novel On Elizabeth Street began as a feature film script she penned while living in Little Italy to attend NYU and was inspired by iconic writers and cinematic goddesses Nancy Meyers and the late Nora Ephron. She is a descendant of both the Daughters of the American Revolution and Black Hand, her credo, passed down from her father, is “Life Ain’t on the Square.” She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children. Find out more on catadami.com and poolhustlersdaughter.com.
Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens is a nonprofit organization founded to promote, protect and preserve the community gardens on the Lower East Side.
The Fifth Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival will take place in 38 community gardens. Events include music, dance, performance, films, photography, painting, sculpture, puppets and comedy, as well as environmental workshops and yoga. Each garden designs its own programing, so the festival is as interesting and eclectic as the Lower East Side.
Open to the public and FREE.
Live Music Sunday: No Chaser, in coordination with Fifth Annual LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) Harvest Arts Festival
No Chaser closes this season’s biweekly summer concert series in the Garden. The band is a cooperative effort by a group of musicians who are all leaders of their own jazz bands and plays music that can be fairly described as “post modern hard bop, with attitude.”
No Chaser includes:
- Wendell Gault — trumpet
- Drake Colley — saxophone
- Paul Bloomberg — piano
- Gary Smith — drums
For this performance, No Chaser will be joined by Clemente Cuevas on bass.
Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens is a nonprofit organization founded to promote, protect and preserve the community gardens on the Lower East Side.
The Fifth Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival will take place in 38 community gardens. Events include music, dance, performance, films, photography, painting, sculpture, puppets and comedy, as well as environmental workshops and yoga. Each garden designs its own programing, so the festival is as interesting and eclectic as the Lower East Side.
Open to the public and FREE.
SOWING THE SEEDS
2016 Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden
BENEFIT RECEPTION AND SILENT AUCTION
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
98 Kenmare St.
Vino, Bites and Tunes!
Ticket $100
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat, if you have one.
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Garden Meeting — All Are Welcome!
Help plan Oct. 6 protest and Oct. 22 Harvest Festival.
Open to the public and FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat, if you have one.
Protest to Stop Developers
Elizabeth Street Garden needs you! Join our protest before developers’ meeting.
This is our first opportunity to show interested developers that we will fight to defend our beloved neighborhood green space. The Garden must be saved!
Wear green, bring signs and enjoy Baz Bagels and lox.
RSVP to Attend Protest.
Directions by subway: 6 to Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall
Exit at Nassau and Frankfort streets. Walk east downhill along Frankfort Street to 100 Gold St.
(To exit at Nassau and Frankfort streets, if traveling downtown: Exit train, take stairs at downtown end of platform. Do not exit first turnstiles. Instead turn left, then exit turnstiles. Follow hallway. Exit left stairs to Frankfort Street.)
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat, if you have one.
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat, if you have one.
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Fourth Annual Elizabeth Street Garden Harvest Festival
Sponsored by The Nolitan Hotel
Start your Halloween early, show your support for Elizabeth Street Garden and celebrate at our fourth annual Harvest Festival. Costumes encouraged!
Enjoy a day of FREE, fun activities for all ages, live music, and lite bites and refreshments donated by neighborhood businesses. Give back by bringing canned soups, vegetables and beans to benefit The Bowery Mission‘s Thanksgiving Meal.
For Everyone
- Drawing by Spring Studio, with model Elizabeth Hellman, Noon.
- Cooking Demonstration Using the Garden’s Harvest by Stir-Fry Guru Grace Young, a James Beard Foundation award winner for Best International Cookbook and currently featured in the Museum of Chinese in America‘s Sour Sweet Bitter Spicy exhibition, 1 p.m.
- Seed Bomb Workshop. Learn about the soil nutrient cycle, composting and how the smallest things we can do can have such great impact.
- Designing Greeting Cards with pressed leaves and other Garden finds.
- Social Media Sharing and Garden Envisioning Stations. Tell the world why the Garden is important to you!
- Little Free Library. Bring a gently used book to help us start a free book exchange. (No textbooks, please.)
- Music.
For Kids
- Ghastly Garden of Zombie Gnomes: Horrifying Halloween Art by McNally Jackson Books.
- Pumpkin Decorating courtesy of The Montessori in SoHo.
- Face Painting by the Chinatown YMCA.
For Green Thumbs
- Planting Daffodil Bulbs courtesy of New Yorkers for Parks. No gardening skills required. Just the desire to get your hands in the dirt.
For Early Birds
- Vinyasa Yoga, 11:15 a.m.
Lite Bites and Refreshments Donated By
- Café Habana
- Caffé Roma
- Cha Cha Matcha
- Emporio
- Gimme! Coffee
- Little Cupcake Bakeshop
- Little Rascal
- Lombardi’s Pizza
- Loreley Restaurant & Biergarten
- Lovely Day
- Market Ipanema
- Milk Bar
- Parisi Bakery
- Pomodoro Pizza
- Prince Street Pizza
- PUBLIC
- Rubirosa Ristorante
- Tacombi
- Taïm
- WellWell
This FREE event is open to the public.
This year’s Harvest Festival is the culmination of Elizabeth Street Garden: Neighborhood LIVING Room, a neighborhood-led initiative that invites our larger community to engage with the Garden as an outdoor living room and shared backyard. The season-long initiative was funded in part with a generous grant from Citizens Committee for New York City.
If you would like to volunteer to help, email [email protected].
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Fall Cleanup & Daffodil Bulb Planting, as part of New Yorkers for Parks Daffodil Project
Spend a fall morning outdoors with neighbors planting spring-flowering bulbs and preparing Garden beds for colder months to come.
No experience necessary. Both adults and kids are welcome. Open to the public and FREE.
The Daffodil Project was founded in 2001 as a living memorial to Sept. 11. With nearly 5 million free bulbs planted citywide by New Yorkers, it is one of the largest volunteer efforts in the city’s history.
Garden Meeting — All Are Welcome!
Open to the public and FREE.
Invite the Mayor to Visit the Garden
Join us as we show the mayor how much the Garden means to us. (Let’s meet at the Peter Cooper statue.)
This is not a protest, but an invitation to the mayor to visit the Garden made more powerful by your presence!
Mayor de Blasio said he would “happily” visit Elizabeth Street Garden when questioned by a Garden supporter on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show. Help us re-extend the invitation in front of the Foundation Building at Cooper Union where the mayor is scheduled to give a major speech at 11 a.m. in the Great Hall.
Open to the public and FREE.