APA : March 04

Astoria Park Alliance 

meets Tuesday, March 4th

at 6:30 PM at Steinway Reformed Church on Ditmars Blvd & 41st Street.

All are welcome!!!

Greetings from The Astoria Park Alliance, Martha and Jules!

Our next meeting is Tuesday night at 6:30 pm in the basement of the Steinway Reformed Church on the corner of 41st Street and Ditmars Boulevard.

The Astoria Park Alliance is creating a stronger organizational structure in order to support a more inclusive, greener vision of Astoria Park. We value your talent, input, and passion. We share your love of Astoria Park. We haven't seen you at a meeting in a while, and we miss you!

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Welcome, introductions, and Thank You for coming.

Minutes

6:30PM

Report on Meetings:

(@ 5 min each)

Jules and Martha meeting with Green Shores

re: CB 1 park DOT bike lane 

Martha meeting with Nichole Henderson - Partnerships for Parks -
Outreach Coordinator -  Western Queens

re: proposed membership fee implementation and precedents,
volunteer facilitation of youth groups

Martha Phone meeting with Norman Chan -
Parks and Recreation Manager

re: breaking ice

Fundraising Committee meeting report - Spring Fling in March

Martha phone meeting with Antonio Meloni of NY Anti Crime Agency
[CB1] re: Lighting on Hell Gate Bridge and Amtrak

Announcements 

Discussion:

(@ 5 min each)

Shore Fest planning

Membership recruitment

Volunteer facilitation

Committee duty definitions

Review of Drop Box procedures

7:30-2nd hour of working meeting
Budget and Finance reporting for notforprofits
15 min-Introduction to ‘best-practices’ record keeping and reporting. - Arlene
20 min-Q and A
20 min - Mission statement

Goodbyes!


astoriaparkalliance.blogspot.com /p/2014  2014 APA calendar 

• CUP - NY4P
• Volunteer dates March 15 and March 29 
• New York Cares Day April 12 

• ...

• Set working meeting agenda for next meeting (5)

 

• Weekend Walks - DOT  

• Meeting Reports:
• NY4Parks Charybdis Playground survey report
• Going Green in Queens [2014 Sept. conf.]
• Bike Lane CB comms meeting

• ...

Working agenda

• ... Draft 2014 APA calendar [Events and Volunteers] ...

[March/Spring  fundraising]

Playground-utilization-study- NY4P.org

• Old business / New business

Budget and Planning

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• Volunteers and New York Cares March and Spring
• Outdoor Fest May/June
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• Safety in the park - Call 311 for any problems or issues
• AP track in winter
• 
  

Queens Gazette Pdf 2013 Nov 27
www.qgazette.com /news / 2013-11-27/ PDF

2014 APA officers

2014  Fitness Classes and programming

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Astoria Park Alliance

Meet a New Yorker for Parks [NY4P] [APA] 2012

Meet a New Yorker for Parks

www.ny4p.org/partnerships

2012

When families move to Astoria, they often stay there.

It’s venerable place, where longtime residents sip coffee at cafes with neighbors, enjoy outdoor meals where they’re known by name, and the rattling of the elevated N and Q trains along 31st Street eventually just blends in with the surroundings. And of course, there's the neighborhood park – Astoria Park – where the views of Manhattan from the historic 1936 Astoria Pool are framed by the sweeping archways of the R.F.K. and Hell Gate bridges. It's unsurprising that so many have been here for so long.

“I moved here 20 years ago and I’m still new,” said Martha Lopez-Gilpn, the Co-Chair of the Astoria Park Alliance.
While she may feel like she has only just arrived, Lopez-Gilpin has already made an enormous impact on the neighborhood. In 2006, ...