Van Cortlandt Pool
Will be open everyday until Monday September 6th from 11am to 3pm and from 4pm to 7pm. For information on Adult Swim Schedule or Learn to Swim programs call 718-760-6969 ext. 0.
Healthy Community Hikes
Saturday August 14th meeting at 10am
Meet at the Van Cortlandt Riding Stables. Enter the park at Broadway and Mosholu Ave.
Saturday September 11th meeting at 10am
Meet at the Van Cortlandt Golf House. Enter the park at Bailey & Van Cortlandt Park South
Join us for a series of hikes to enjoy your own backyard. Here’s your chance to explore and discover what is free in your neighborhood park- Van Cortlandt Park. Free giveaways for participants! Bring water, a snack and wear walking shoes! Held in partnership with Bon Secours New York Health System.
New Recycling Initiative
The Friends are collecting no-recycleable items as part of an effort to reduce waste and to raise money for our programs. We are collecting:
- Candy wrappers from Mars/Wrigley and Cadbury products
- Empty Drink Pouches from Honest Kids, CapriSun and Kool-Aid
- Empty Elmers glue bottles and sticks
We are doing this through a program with Terracycle for more information visit www.terracycle.net. If you are interested in collecting these items for us please let us know so we can provide you with further instructions.
Hike-a-Thon
The Friends are excited to announce that our HIke-a-Thon 2010 event raised over $10,000 towards the restoration of the hiking trails of Van Cortlandt Park. For more information or to make a contribution please visit our Hike-a-Thon page.
Friends Trails Initiative
The Friends of Van Cortlandt Park are pleased to announce that Congressman Eliot Engel (D- N.Y. 17th District) has secured $180,000 towards the restoration of 6.7 miles of trails in Van Cortlandt Park. The funding will be used towards the implementation of our newly created Trails Plan. The Friends,, with the generous support of the Booth Ferris Foundation, hired the New York-New Jersey Trails Conference to complete a Trails Plan for the hiking trails of the Park. The purpose of the plan is to ultimately make the trails more sustainable, to better serve the park users and to highlight and protect the Park's unique natural resources. To download a copy of the Trails Plan please click here and be patient- it's a large document full of great projects.
The Friends Become a TreeBank
TreeBanks are local community funds for tree planting, care and education. With TreeBanks across the U.S. and Canada, you can choose your local "Branch" and donate directly to improving the urban forest in that community. Donations go to qualified local TreeBank organizations in your community of choice. To find out more click on the TreeBank picture.
Friends Partner with Clean Air NY
The Friends of Van Cortlandt Park have partnered with Clean Air NY in order to take action to improve the air qualitity in NY city. We ride bikes, walk, take public transportation and continue to plant trees to improve air quality in the city. To find more tips on how to improve air quality or find out if it is an air quality action day, a day where air quality is found to be in the unhealthy range, please visit the Clean Air NY website by clicking here.
