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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 4h

Yesterday, MECA’s free basketball nets program Swish You Were Here had a milestone day at Peter’s Field, here with @kevokeefe.bsky.social
(at rim), park neighbor Daniel Bernstein and appreciative youngsters. Learn more in the next issue of our newsletter (subscribe: stvartanpark.org/join).

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 3d

On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, we recognize the area's indigenous Lenape, as I did on behalf of Manhattan East Community Association at Murray Hill Neighborhood Association's celebration of the 20th anniversary of 88 neighborhood structures placed in the National Register of Historic Places. ⁣

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 9d

In 1984, President Carter was here on E. 6th Street to help restore Mascot Flats, his first project for @habitat for Humanity, an org. my dad volunteered with to help build houses.

Today on World Habitat Day, a joy to stand with CEO Jonathan Reckford and many other for Jimmy Carter Way co-naming.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 14d

Today to further St. Vartan Park garden beautification, sustainability, safety and upkeep, garden steward St. Vartan Park Conservancy hosted @TIAA employees.

TIAA and the Conservancy provided extensive mulching, weeding, composting, pruning and other enhancements

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 18d

Yesterday, St. Vartan Cathedral and the Conservancy co-hosted their first joint community program—an engaging morning cathedral history session and park beautification. ⁣Thanks to all, incluidiong the church's vicar Davit Karamyan, who led the tour and helped plant many daffodil bulbs.

St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 19d

Tomorrow morning, St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral and St. Vartan Park Conservancy team up to host a complimentary Cathedral history tour and volunteer park beautification session. No registration is required.

Details: stvartanpark.org/events

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 22d

Yesterday morning will be long remembered by many in the St. Vartan Park community.

NEWS: 🌳 Trees Go Up, Casino Goes Down, Senate Honor, More

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 23d

Today in St. Vartan Park, @sengonzalezny.bsky.social
presented the New York State Senate 2025 Commendation Award to Conservancy founder @kevokeefe.bsky.social.
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Thanks to all behind the Conservancy mission to "act on behalf of the public to improve St. Vartan Park and its surrounding community."

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 26d

Today, four St. Vartan Park tree stumps were removed as we look to Monday's planting of more than a dozen trees at the park. Join us as a volunteer on Monday after a special 9 a.m. kickoff at the park garden with remarks from
@sengonzalezny.bsky.social and others.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Sep 14

This morning at Union Square, St. Vartan Park Conservancy's @kevokeefe.bsky.social received 275 daffodil bulbs plus hundreds of native-flower seeds to plant around St. Vartan Park this fall — part of @ny4p.bsky.social's annual Daffodil Project, a living memorial to the victims of 9/11 and COVID-19.

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Grand opening and tour last night of Solar One's Environmental Education Center at Stuyvesant Cove Park, to host K-12 STEM education and teacher development programming and serve as a sustainable event venue. Solar powered and flood resistant.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy first day of school in the city!

St. Vartan Park Conservancy, which launched in 2022 with students from P.S. 281 located across the street from the park garden, appreciates the ideas suggested by schoolchildren, including park reading activities, that have become reality.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Sep 2

We recognize U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler's valuable support of our community and his long public service as news breaks that he will retire from office next year after nearly three dozen years in Congress.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Aug 31

Views today during a work session in the St. Vartan Park garden, including of our first recorded park sighting of an Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Aug 28

A public hearing about a Murray Hill casino bid starts at 4 at 58 Park Ave. Here from a 2024 town hall hosted by @sengonzalezny.bsky.social, @kevokeefe.bsky.social of co-sponsor MECA advocates for the private land to be used for ample public green space and affordable housing. stvartanpark.org/forum

Kevin O'Keefe Town Hall Remarks — St. Vartan Park Conservancy

Manhattan East Community Association (MECA) finds solutions and gets results through grassroots engagement. Founded in 1990, MECA has helped improve Midtown Manhattan communities and other neighborhoo...

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Aug 26

In recognition of Women's Equality Day today, we share an original story about how Murray Hill advanced the women's suffrage movement, published in this issue of our newsletter. mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

Earth and Women Activism, First 🌻🥀, Park Access, Murray Hill Creatures, More

Community News from St. Vartan Park Conservancy + MECA

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Aug 6

Fun community unity at the 17th Precinct Community Council's National Night Out Against Crime at Turtle Bay’s Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza—including at the St. Vartan Park Conservancy station where visitors of all generations seeded take-home basil plants and participated in other engaging activities.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Aug 5

Back by popular community demand, St. Vartan Park Conservancy tonight will host a free seeding activity with a take-home basil plant. The occasion is the annual National Night Out Against Crime event at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza on 49th Street between First and Second Avenues.

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · Aug 4

Appreciation today for Chris Marte and Grauven Olivares, co-hosts at P.S. 142 of the first Dominican Heritage Celebration.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Jul 31

After four years and with curbside collection now in buildings and a public Smart Composting Bin now across the street from St. Vartan Park, the Lower East Side Ecology Center food-scraps composting in the park (pictured today) will wrap on August 15. Learn more: www.instagram.com/p/DMyJLGXywD...

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Jul 28

Today's issue of our community newsletter leads with a St. Vartan Park Conservancy August 5 complimentary seeding with take-home basil plant and ends with 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

News: Police Action, Garden Birthday, Anne Hathaway, More

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · Jul 26

On today's occasion of the 35th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a big shout out to @cidnyinc.bsky.social and Mike Schweinsburg for their leadership on ADA progress (here with Mike and CIDNY team members at May's Loisaida Festival on Avenue C).

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · Jul 25

Nice seeing this monarch butterfly in flight and landing today in the St. Vartan Park garden, more than three years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the species on the endangered list.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Jul 25

This morning, the eastern carpenter bee (here in the St. Vartan Park garden) became the 26th animal species tracked by St. Vartan Park Conservancy in the park. See all of the species at stvartanpark.org/wildlife.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our latest community newsletter dropped this morning, leading off with news about public play space for children in the St. Vartan Park community. mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

News: New Play Space Near Park, Barry Manilow, More

St. Vartan Park Conservancy + MECA Newsletter

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