The Best Way to Celebrate Earth Week? Helping Us Clean Up Bowling Green Park!  

Earth Week kicks off on the week of April 22, giving us Earthlings an opportunity to reflect on all that our fair planet has given us and what we need to do to protect it. (Or it might get angry…) One way to celebrate Earth? Join the Downtown Alliance and 28 Liberty for a special volunteer event on Thursday, April 25. 

Grab your hats, gloves and sunscreen and join your fellow community volunteers for the second annual 28 Liberty and Downtown Alliance Earth Week Clean-Up at Bowling Green Park. This is an opportunity for corporate organizations and community volunteers to show appreciation for Lower Manhattan and its beautiful parks, trails and outdoor playgrounds by assisting Alliance staff in landscaping improvements and various restorative park projects. 

Volunteers can expect to assist the Downtown Alliance staff with the following tasks:

• Rake the lawn and under benches
• Get trash out of the plants using grabbers
• Sweep the fountain
• Remove stumps from lawn, relocate bulbs
• Use top soil and mulch to fill in behind edging
• Use compost or soil to “top dress” parts of the lawn
• Plant summer bulbs

The event runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; attendees should meet on the South

Plaza near the Four Trees Sculpture before 9:45 a.m., when you’ll walk over to Bowling Green Plaza. Remember to wear warm clothing and comfortable shoes, and feel free to bring your favorite gardening tool! Register here.