About the Greenest Block in Brooklyn
Gather your neighbors and enter your block in Brooklyn’s friendliest competition.
The Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest is free and open to all residential blocks, commercial blocks, and community gardens in Brooklyn.
Participants can attend a free workshop, How to Green Your Block, at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and host a free interactive, walk-and-talk block visit, led by BBG staff, to learn about their block’s greening opportunities. Contest winners are revealed in August, and dozens of prizes are awarded for greening efforts.
Garden together to make your block more beautiful, friendly, and green!
How to make donations to the Owl's Head Park Volunteers
Owl's Head Park Volunteers is a friend's group of Owl's Head Park located in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. We are registered with Partnerships for Parks and are a member of the City Parks Foundation's fiscal sponsorship program.
To make a monetary donation to Owl's Head Park Volunteers, please email us at [email protected] and we will provide you with instructions on how to send the donation.
We also accept donations for tools, soil, hand sanitizers, snacks and bottled water for volunteers. Please email us at: [email protected] and we will instruct you how you can make these donations.
Grand Army Plaza Arch Tour
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Grant Army Plaza, Park Slope, Brooklyn corner of Prospect Park West and Union Street
11:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Join the Urban Park Rangers for a special access tour of Prospect Park's Grand Army Plaza and Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch. Rangers will discuss the history of the arch and the plaza, highlighting its architectural features and some of the improvements made during the recently completed restoration project.
Visit: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/06/28/grand-army-plaza-arch-tour
