Jobs and Volunteer Opportunities at Parks

Happy Spring!

These NYC Parks job opportunities (below) made possible by the recent federal reinvestment bill are open to people of all ages and require no experience.

CAN YOU & YOUR ____BE LITTER AMBASSADORS FOR OUR HISTORIC HARLEM PARKS?
(Jackie Robinson/Marcus Garvey/Morningside/St Nicholas)
NYC Parks is looking for weekend volunteers we call * Litter Ambassadors * who can greet park visitors having special events & BBQs and offer them orange (!) garbage bags to “love your park!”.  Litter ambassadors will share where park visitors can drop their full orange trash bag after their event in a “Love Your Park” trash corral nearby. A NYC Parks staffer will provide you with bags and answer any questions. Ambassadors can volunteer as often as you want through Labor Day (and beyond)!  Parents with children / friends / couples / co-workers / group members are all welcome to volunteer (dogs welcome too)!  Just a couple of hours this summer give invaluable help to our parks to help us ensure our parks are clean, safe and green for our visitors, children, families, friends & neighbors. To learn more & volunteer – contact Historic Harlem Parks Administrator Jana La Sorte at jana.lasorte@parks.nyc.gov

NYC PARKS JOB OPENINGS FOR 18-80+
Mayor De Blasio has announced the creation of the City Cleanup Corps, an economic recovery program modeled on The New Deal that will generate 10,00 jobs in NYC and focus on cleaning our public spaces. Initial hiring began this month and more positions will be added through July.  Details include:
– Up to 8 months long with potential for full-time placement
– no experience or drivers license required for the “seasonal” job 

Check link below for information on how to apply for “City Park Worker Clean Up Corp – Manhattan” and/or “City Seasonal Aide Cleanup Corp – Manhattan” & note other job listings for all boroughs too. Please forward this far & wide to young & old alike who may be looking for good work! 

Jobs at Parks : NYC Parks (nycgovparks.org) 

ITS MY PARK DAY IS MAY 22 — A DAY OF FUN VOLUNTEERING TO LOVE YOUR PARK !
Join thousands of New Yorkers who come together each year to volunteer and celebrate their neighborhood parks and public spaces through It’s My Park Day.  What might your group – neighborhood association / sorority / fraternity / school / arts group / temple / mosque / church / family / friends, etc! – want to do to help love our parks?  Cleanups / painting / weeding & more pitch in help is welcome at ANY time of the year but May 22 has been set as the spring It’s My Park Day for our historic Harlem parks.  Contact Kyle.Mytelka@parks.nyc.gov at Partnership for Parks to arrange for your special volunteer day and ask questions, particularly for groups of 10+.  NYC PARKS
www.nyc.gov/parks

Do We Live in a Democratic Bubble?

Apparently, yes, we do…

You can see the blueness of upper Manhattan, below, and note the outcrops of red republican voters across the Hudson, and a few in the UES/Midtown as well as Queens:

The bubble visualization (below) shows how our neighborhood looks if you group all the Democrats and Republicans together:

This is in contrast with Fort Lee, across the Hudson, which is almost 50/50 split.

What researchers in the NYT article propose is that lifestyle choices drive many location decisions, and thus segregate us into political clusters, even if this clustering is driven by individual decision making:

To test this out yourself, enter some Zip Codes here:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/30/opinion/politics/bubble-politics.html


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