It's My Park Day in Queensbridge Park

Celebrate spring and help beautify one of our favorite waterfront parks.

Join with Green Shores NYC, Friends of Queensbridge Park Committee, and the Astoria Park Alliance for It’s My Park Day (IMPD) on Saturday May 21st, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. IMPD will take place rain or shine.

The event will give residents of Long Island City and Astoria a chance to spruce up Queensbridge Park after a long and chilly winter. Within a few hours, volunteers will take part in several projects, including painting, planting and general park cleanup. Arts and crafts activities for all ages will round out the day.

Queensbridge Park is on the waterfront and provides breathtaking views of the Queensboro Bridge (also known as the 59th Street Bridge), East River and Manhattan skyline. It’s heavily used by children, families, cyclists, runners, and amateur sports teams. Built in 1939, the park features baseball fields, a multi-use field for soccer and football, volleyball and handball courts, a marked bike path, a playground and barbeque areas. Over the past few months, Queensbridge Park has been the site of a festival celebrating the Queensboro Bridge’s Centennial, a concert by the Metropolitan Opera, puppet shows, and innovative dance and theater performances.

Everyone is welcome, but children must be supervised by an adult. This is a great opportunity for community organizations, businesses and schools to volunteer as a group in their community. Volunteers are advised to wear old clothes and shoes and to be ready to roll up their sleeves and have fun! Refreshments will be provided for all volunteers.

All volunteers are asked to enter the park at the 41st Avenue/Vernon Blvd entrance and report to the registration table on May 21st at 10 AM near the field house.
By train, take the F to 21st Street/Queensbridge and walk west on 41st Avenue to Vernon Boulevard.


Green Shores NYC is an all-volunteer parks advocacy organization that works to enliven the Astoria/LIC waterfront by caring and advocating for safe public parks, green spaces, waterways, and a waterfront greenway. The organization sponsors events to beautify and maintain our parks and shoreline, and organizes recreational activities for the community. For more information, visit www.greenshoresnyc.org.

Friends of Queensbridge Park Committee is a volunteer group that makes the park a safe place for neighborhood kids and sponsors concerts and other programming. Contact them through greenshoresnyc@yahoo.com

The Astoria Park Alliance is a community group whose mission is to beautify, enhance, and encourage involvement in the park.