Red Hook Relief Efforts.

Whether you need help or want to help, here are a few things going on in the Red Hook area for residents, businesses and anyone who wants to volunteer.


**Red Hook Farm needs volunteers between 10 and 4pm tomorrow.

**There will be lawyers on-site at the Pal Micco Building and RHI today to help with FEMA documents, lost food stamps, and other hurricane-related questions/issues.

**Our Van Brunt Street Office, 351 Van Brunt, is offering area residents electricity for their sump pumps as well as collecting can goods and clothing donations.

**Please, if you have wifi, open your network so others can use it. 

We'll keep posting more info as it comes in.  Please post more volunteer and relief opportunities in the comment section.  Also, this link (https://redhook.recovers.org/) is for anyone who wants to donate money, goods or receive help.  It'll keep you up-to-date on what is needed.

Calling All Volunteers for Park Clean Up.

Just walking around our neighborhood you can imagine what parks might look like with the fallen trees and whatnot.  Cobble Hill Park above had some fallen trees and branches as you can see above.  Brooklyn Bridge Park got hit pretty hard, they were under three feet of water, and could use your help.  So, if you are home from work, as most of you are, and would like to help out the info is below.

Wed October 31 | 9 am - 12 pm and 2 pm - 5 pm
Volunteers, please join us as we begin our Hurricane Clean Up. We will concentrate our efforts on the perimeters of the park, cleaning up debris left over from flood waters. Work will take place near Main Street from 9am-12pm and on Pier 6 from 2-5pm. Wear water-resistant shoes and clothes that you don't mind getting dirty.

If you have brooms, rakes, and gloves, please bring them. While we have extras, we're hoping that eager volunteers outnumber our current supplies!

Please rsvp to sward@brooklynbridgepark.org. And stay tuned for additional clean up opportunities in the coming days and weeks.

Join the Green Team!

(Photo by jeanacosta)

If you have a green thumb, or even if you don't but would like to help out beautifying Brooklyn Bridge Park, you have many opportunities to join what the Conservancy calls "The Green Team". Twice a week volunteers meet up to work on different projects around the park and river areas. You can join whenever and need no experience at all. Here's some more info:

Join us every Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. or Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. Get outside, enjoy nature, have fun! Meet at the Main Street section of the park in the DUMBO neighborhood, entrance at Main and Plymouth Streets. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Sarah Ward.

Tuesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Saturdays, 10:00-noon

Main Street Section of Brooklyn Bridge Park
(Main and Plymouth Streets)