Saturday: BBP Invites Volunteers To Help Maintain Harbor View Lawn

By on September 26, 2012 9:12 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Environment, Events, Kids, Parents

This Saturday, September 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Brooklyn Bridge Park is inviting all interested park lovers to volunteer at the Harbor View Lawn to help maintain its 100% organic demeanor: “It requires some extra hands-on care, so help us keep it lush and healthy by removing invasive turfgrass weeds. This is a family-friendly event and children of all ages are welcome to participate. Refreshments will be served.” For more information and to RSVP, link here. (Photo: Julienne Schaer)

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  • Wiley E.

    Ha, ha.

  • Gerry

    No professional lawn service? Why volunteers? The lawn will look really bad if it is not maintained properly. I do not see volunteers tending to the Great Lawn in Central Park.

    Lawn care is a science for a good lawn things need to be done like fertilizer, etc.

  • David on Middagh

    Gerry, if you read the piece, you’ll see it’s all about the weed-pulling, not the fertilizer application, which I think you’ve got well in hand.

  • yahoo

    Gerry, if you were on the ball and visited BBP once in a while, you would know that all lawns on Pier 1 (and Pier 6) have been closed after an event during the summer, so that the grass can recover after heavy use. The lawns are also closed periodically for organic fertilizer application.

    If you want year-round professional lawn service, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the cost and donate big bucks or your time like other people do. Like all large NYC parks, BBP relies on volunteers to help maintain it, and they do a lot more than pull crabgrass. Even the Sheep Meadow in Central Park is closed periodically for maintenance.

    Despite your academic credentials, you seem to be one of the most ignorant around here.

  • Wiley E.

    Only little people pay taxes, and pull weeds.

  • Mr. Crusty

    @Yahoo: “Despite your academic credentials, you seem to be one of the most ignorant around here.”

    Gerry has academic credentials?

  • Mr. Crusty

    Goats. I think the BBP should get goats. You get grass clipping and fertilizing in one package with the added benefit of a mini zoo for the little ones.

  • David on Middagh

    Agreed. Goats upon the Commons.

  • Gerry

    @ Yahoo and David – if the lawn had been maintained properly it would not have weeds in it. I see the lawns from our windows high up view from Montague Terrace and they do not look good.

    There should not be weeds in any lawn – weeds mean the lawn is not being cared for properly.

    @ Mr. Crusty – FYI I am highly educated with a number of credentials and I have a job — perhaps if you had a job and had an education maybe you would not spend so much time on this blog creating nonsense remarks? Look in want-ads under “Ugly Old Freak” see what you can find for yourself?

  • Mr. Crusty

    Gerry sees the weeds in the lawn at Pier 1 from his apartment on Montague Terrace.

    Ain’t that something?

  • Mr. Crusty

    Question. Does anyone believe that someone highly educated would actually write something like this:

    “FYI I am highly educated with a number of credentials and I have a job — perhaps if you had a job and had an education maybe you would not spend so much time on this blog creating nonsense remarks? Look in want-ads under “Ugly Old Freak” see what you can find for yourself?”

    Why does the word poseur pop into my mind at the moment?

  • David on Middagh

    Mr. Crusty, he said (in another thread) that he was teaching in the School of Education. I don’t think it’s fair to hold him to the same standard as other academics.

  • Gerry

    At Mr. Crusty – NOT an apartment its a private house I see the sad lawn from the master bedroom suite – and yes its true I said that YOU are an ugly looking old freak and unemployed at that get a job and stop blogging.