Email info@CityHallParkNYC.org to get Garden Group blasts about about group events.
<<<<<<<< School volunteers please scroll down to school groups >>>>>>>>
Enjoy a productive, outdoor exercise in lower Manhattan fresh air (check Air Quality Index) that makes a visible positive impact on our community.
To request a group volunteer event, please scroll down for Group Event Details. Check FCHP Events page for scheduled group gardening and cleanup events.
Independent volunteer gardening and cleaning is self-scheduled. You can meet with City Parks Workers Luis, Pedro, John, Hakkim early shift, or Jethro “Chappelle” later shift, or Gardener Lynn Barber at NYC Parks Dept sheds to get assignments and tools (incl trash bags). Or choose your own positive gardening or clean-up project and grab tools that are available in the sheds (to return them clean). You can also arrange with Skip, who volunteers regularly.
PLEASE REMEMBER: No convenient restrooms (nor drinking water mid Nov - mid May).
Please let us know if you are particularly interested in TREE CARE.
FOR GARDENING & CLEANUP: Please bring your own gardening/work gloves or request to be provided.
NYC PARKS DEPT SHEDS - West of Tweed Building near Chambers St gate.
Please email to info@CityHallParkNYC.org to confirm your volunteer project or with questions.
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FCHP Group Volunteer Event Details
Thank you for scheduling to help make City Hall Park, our precious neighborhood park and all New Yorkers’ city commons, the best park it can be. Events are usually 10am - noon or 1pm.
Your volunteer efforts are particularly appreciated in our over-used, under-staffed public green space. Please join FCHP lobbying efforts with New Yorkers for Parks to get adequate parks funding.
NYC Parks Gardeners Diana Knoell & Lynn Barber have plenty for us to accomplish.
Please dress for the most up-to-date weather report, prepared for as dirty work as you want to do; protective shoes, long-sleeve shirts, long pants, and masks (or other breathing covering) for heavier and dirtier work. Hats and sunscreen are handy to have if it’s sunny; antihistamine for those who suffer spring allergies. We can work in rain if not too chilly or windy with proper rain gear.
Please bring reuseable water bottles, convenient to have on-site as you work. Water fountains in the park are likely to be on for refills, (update on water and weather forecast right before your date).
Please reply as soon as you have estimates, then confirm the day before:
how many volunteers,
how many for harder work, like digging and lopping
how many for lighter work, like weeding and clean up
how many to do chalk art drawings
do you want a quick introduction & right to work or intro with a bit of park history?
f you or volunteers will provide their own gardening gloves or how many gardening gloves FCHP should provide.
is there a budget for plants for your team to plant, gloves, chalk, other materials? Any size donation is appreciated. If there’s no budget available, needed tools, gloves and some materials are always provided; plants, seeds, mulch, fertilizer are sometimes provided by DPR as available.
Name(s) of your team(s), or your participation will be listed as “Corporate name + community service team”
Please let all volunteers know prior to arrival that there is no public restroom in the park. There are agreeable restaurants a block away in all directions.
Please meet at Welcome Tables near Broadway & Warren St park entrance for greeting.
We’ll then assemble at the nearby NYC Parks Sheds for introduction, team assignments and tooling up, then go to Brandon's assignment in the park.
Goal is to finish up projects 15 or so minutes before departure to take photos and return clean tools back at the Sheds and say “good-bye.”
You can arrange a picnic lunch on the cleanest NW lawn after your session if you like.
<<<<<<<<< School groups >>>>>>>>>>
In the interest of fostering new generations of park lovers and volunteers, please answer the following questions::
How many students?
What ages?'
How many adult supervisors?
How many students want to do heavy, dirty work like raking, digging, etc.
How many have specific volunteer interests and how many have skills, including using specific tools?
Gardening, including raking, weeding, planting, spreading mulch.
Tree care, including raking, mulching.
Clean up: trash pick up, sweeping.
Sidewalk chalk art park-related drawings or text grafitti.
What is best day(s)? time(s)?
Is this a one-time request?
or to schedule several visits?
or to take responsibility for a specific path, planting bed, tree for the school semester?
Is there a budget to pay for supplies used? plants to plant?
School sessions can last 1 - 3 hrs depending on age. Arrival at Welcome Tables near Broadway & Warren Street entrance must be promptly on time. Supervision for each group by an adult & release from parent or legal guardian for each student are required. There is no convenient restroom in CHP. Water fountains work from late spring to early autumn. Please bring water in reusable bottles. Gardening gloves can be provided or use your own.