Edge of the City

Friends of MacDonald Park is sponsoring a Mulch and Plant Day on Saturday, October 13 th , 9:30-12:00. We need more volunteers to help a...

Just some pics I shot the other day while hanging out in our increasingly pretty local park. As I tweeted at the time I took these, you can...

Thanks to Steve for the photo... and he also sent along this item: Volunteer Day at MacDonald Park Nov 14th—Farewell to 2015 The fina...

SNEAK PEEKS OF “MADE IN NY” TV SERIES TO BE FEATURED IN NYC PARKS AS ‘MOVIES UNDER THE STARS’ PROGRAM CONTINUES The Mayor’s Office of M...

Open to anyone who wants to help clean up our park: As usual, all supplies and gloves will be provided and credit for community service w...

As the only real public park area in central Forest Hills, I wonder, is MacDonald Park being put to the best use? I'm wondering what yo...

The non-profit City Parks Foundation’s famed SummerStage performing arts festival is celebrating its 30 th  anniversary season in 2015. ...

In very exciting news to close out the year, the NY Times in an editorial has carefully weighed the two options for the 3.5 mile stretch o...

Flowers courtesy of Central Park's Shakespeare Garden, Sunday, May 11, 2014 Posted with Blogsy

Last Wednesday, The Friends of the Queensway Steering Committee co-hosted its first community workshop to discuss the QueensWay vision and...

After years of waiting, Forest Hills now has access to a beautiful lake! The City has finally opened the gate to the entrance to the Willow...

One of my favorite parks in the city will soon, hopefully, be getting much bigger... City Acquires Last Segment of High Line From Rail...

There will be a meeting in Kew Gardens tonight about the possibility of creating our very own High Line, right here in Forest Hills and nei...

This is, quite frankly, amazing! It's still just in the planning stages, but just the fact that it seriously might happen is another...

I paid a visit to The High Line over the weekend to check out the new section that opened a couple of weeks ago. It doubles the park's l...