Green Stops Partnership
Many New Yorkers need more nature. In the rush between school, work and other indoor destinations, urban families can get disconnected from the great outdoors.
In fact, it’s easy to overlook the fact that New York City blooms with “Green Stops”– parks, community gardens and riverfronts. In this unique project, four well-regarded local organizations — New York Restoration Project, Sustainable South Bronx, Solar One and Mt. Sinai Hospital Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit — will team up as the “Green Stops Partnership” to reacquaint city residents with the vibrant nature in their own neighborhoods.
These four partners currently operate more than 350 combined acres of parks, gardens and reclaimed landscapes, interacting with an audience of 30,000 urban children and adults. Now, the partners plan to concentrate their efforts around a common goal: increasing the time urban kids spend in nature.
The Green Stops Partnership will invite New Yorkers to enter, explore, dig, prune, observe and celebrate publicly-accessible open spaces. Through a website, maps and signs, children and families will find their way to these Green Stops to discover loosely structured outdoor activities that will spark their curiosity and creativity. Rediscovering nature together, they will reconnect to the environment around them — and to each other.
To Learn More
New York Restoration Project
greenstops@nyrp.org
254 West 31st Street,
10th Floor,
New York, NY, 10001
212.333.2552
www.nyrp.org
