Photo from Friends of Corlears Hook Facebook page.
There’s a new organization advocating for an often overlooked neighborhood park. We asked the founder, Michael Marino, for some background on Friends of Corlears Hook Park:
We are a small and newly formed group that was founded to help revitalize the Corlears Hook Park and make it a viable amenity to all. I founded the group after a call to State Senator Daniel Squadron’s office to complain about the condition and upkeep of the park. His office arranged a call with other area park groups and representatives from the Parks Department and Partnership for Parks to provide some guidance and advice to me as I started to get the Friends of CHP rolling. We have about 20 people on our list serve so far – in just under a month – so hopefully that will continue to grow. Earlier this month we worked with NYC Bark Club on a clean-up of the dog runs in the park and we will continue to partner with them until the dog runs are a place tha