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Introduction

New York Restoration Project’s mission is to restore, revitalize and develop under-resourced parks, vacant lots, and community gardens throughout the city’s five boroughs, so that no New Yorker suffers from a lack of healthy and natural spaces. By delivering enriching and free educational and community programs at these spaces, NYRP instills in children and families a respect for nature and a commitment to New York City’s long-term environmental sustainability. Since 1995, NYRP has carried out our founder Bette Midler’s dream of a cleaner, greener New York City.

Beginning on Earth Day 2007, we have also served as the lead nonprofit partner in MillionTreesNYC, the most visible and successful initiative within Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 city-wide sustainability plan. With our partner the Parks Department, we are overseeing the planting and care of one million new trees across New York City by 2017, engaging thousands of volunteers and citizens in the most ambitious urban reforestation campaign in the country. With 294,000 trees already in the ground, we are proud to report that the project is 20% ahead of schedule.

Working together, NYRP’s board and staff, our AmeriCorps members, corporate and foundation partners, and thousands of community volunteers have planted hundreds of thousands of trees across the five boroughs, removed millions of pounds of trash from the city’s parks, and, in our 55 community gardens and Swindler Cove Park, created some of the most beautiful and innovative public spaces in the city.

In our relatively short history, NYRP has learned that restoring a public space is only the first, and perhaps easiest, step in the long process involved in restoring a community (or even a nation). Even while we celebrate the successes of NYRP’s first 14 years, we know that our work is far from done. It will take the collective strength of all New Yorkers digging in and contributing to make the city cleaner, greener, healthier and safer for future generations. We invite those who are reading this to join us.

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Hike, Climb, Run, Camp, Play, Volunteer

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Northeast

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Stay up-to-date on all things green and everything New York Restoration Project (NYRP) is doing to clean & beautify NYC

 


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NYRP and Bette Midler win the Audubon Rachel Carson Award

Bette Midler was one of five winners in 2009. She won for her work with New York Restoration Project in



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NYRP's Target Brooklyn community garden opens

New York Restoration Project opens a beautiful new community garden (one of 55 they own) in Brooklyn with Target.



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