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  • Fall bloom at 96th Street

    Fall bloom at 96th Street

    Spring planting results in fall blooming on the esplanade

  • El Barrio Bait Station

    El Barrio Bait Station

    Bring your rod & reel and test out your fishing skills at 100th Street on the esplanade.

  • Monarch butterfly

    Monarch butterfly

    During their fall migration to Mexico, the monarch butterflies take a rest at Alice Aycock Pavilion

  • EsplanadeFriends & NYC Ferry

    EsplanadeFriends & NYC Ferry

    Handing out masks and schedules for passengers at 90th Street.

  • Love Your Neighborhood Day with E72NA

    Love Your Neighborhood Day with E72NA

    EsplanadeFriends partnered with East 72nd Street Neighborhood Association for a trash pick-up and mask & hand sanitzer give out day on The Esplanade

  • Trash pick-up during Love Your Neighborhood Day

    Trash pick-up during Love Your Neighborhood Day

  • Mask hand out during Love Your Neighborhood Day

    Mask hand out during Love Your Neighborhood Day

  • EsplanadeFriends volunteers pick up trash

    EsplanadeFriends volunteers pick up trash

  • "Esplanade Friend" reusable masks being handed out during Love Your Neighborhod Day

    "Esplanade Friend" reusable masks being handed out during Love Your Neighborhod Day

  • Volunteer Lou picking up trash along The Esplanade at 72nd Street

    Volunteer Lou picking up trash along The Esplanade at 72nd Street

  • Sinkhole at 76th Repaired

    Sinkhole at 76th Repaired

    Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, EsplanadeFriends Board Chair, Jennifer Ratner, City Council Member Ben Kallos, and Second Vice Chair of Community Board 8, Tricia Shimamura visit the site of the newly repaired sinkhole on The Esplanade

  • Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney inspects a sinkhole on The Esplanade

    Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney inspects a sinkhole on The Esplanade

  • $284 million dollars announced

    $284 million dollars announced

    Congresswoman Maloney's press conference on 1/31/21 to thank Mayor DeBlasio for allocating $284 million dollars to NYC Parks for Esplanade repairs.

  • 7th Annual Benefit Virtual for 2021

    7th Annual Benefit Virtual for 2021

    Annual Benefit ‘21 honoring Schulte Roth & Zabel and learning how to cook ratatouille with Chef Charlie Palmer

  • Love Your Neighborhood Day - Spring 2021

    Love Your Neighborhood Day - Spring 2021

    First spring litter pick up with E72NA. Thanks to the Esplanade Volunteers who cleaned up the waterfront on a Saturday morning.

  •  First spring litter pick up with E72NA.  Thanks to the Esplanade Volunteers who cleaned up the waterfront on a Saturday morning.   Youth Fishing Clinic+ Youth Fishing Clinic

    First spring litter pick up with E72NA. Thanks to the Esplanade Volunteers who cleaned up the waterfront on a Saturday morning. Youth Fishing Clinic+ Youth Fishing Clinic

    I FISH NY instructor Nicki shows dad & daughter how to drop a line into the East River

  • Allium in bloom under Alice Aycock Pavilion

    Allium in bloom under Alice Aycock Pavilion

    Green Park Gardeners NYC’s hard work in the fall pays off beautifully in the spring

  • Volunteer crews Green and Blue Eco Core, Green Park Gardeners NYC, & EsplanadeFriends

    Volunteer crews Green and Blue Eco Core, Green Park Gardeners NYC, & EsplanadeFriends

    Volunteers spent Saturday planting butterfly pollinators Russian sage, marigolds, zinnias, carolina rose, goldenrod and more at E97th Street on the Esplanade

  • Make Music New York Festival at Alice Aycock Pavilion

    Make Music New York Festival at Alice Aycock Pavilion

    Ice cold paletas, make-your-own instrument, and incredible live music entertained New Yorkers on the summer solstice.

  • Make Music New York Festival at Alice Aycock Pavilion

    Make Music New York Festival at Alice Aycock Pavilion

    Crowds were delighted by Liz Hogg, The Tomtown Ramblers, and Soundbridges

  • Autumn at Aycock

    Autumn at Aycock

    Bash The Trash sang, danced and taught us all how to transform trash into instruments!

  • Photoville Festival

    Photoville Festival

    Engrossed in the wall text, visitors don’t realize Lola Flash, the artist behind syzygy, the vision, is facing them

  • Photoville Festival

    Photoville Festival

    syzygy, the vision - an incredible piece by Lola Flash on view from 9/18-12/1 at 100th Street on the Esplanade

  • Lola Flash, Artist & Activist

    Lola Flash, Artist & Activist

    Standing tall in front of her Photoville Festival exhibition, syzygy, the vision at 100th Street on the Esplanade

  • Mexican Sunflowers feeding the bees

    Mexican Sunflowers feeding the bees

  • Caterpillers enjoying some mid-day milkweed

    Caterpillers enjoying some mid-day milkweed

  • One of Thursday's caterpillers turned into Sunday's chrysallis

    One of Thursday's caterpillers turned into Sunday's chrysallis

    Soon to be a Monarch butterfly

  • Autumn at Aycock

    Autumn at Aycock

    Crowd enjoying live music by NOIZ, churros by La Newyorkina & pumpkin painting by Craft Studio

  • Kids getting Halloween ready at Autumn at Aycock

    Kids getting Halloween ready at Autumn at Aycock

  • Sweet & chewy churros served up by La Newyorkina at Autumn at Aycock

    Sweet & chewy churros served up by La Newyorkina at Autumn at Aycock

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