ALT This fun event is rain or shine supported by NYC Parks Stewardship Team Field Associates and Riverkeeper. Bring a full bottle of water to stay hydrated, dress for the weather, and we hope to see you on Saturday May 2nd, 2026. For more details email questions to [email protected] The meeting spot is on the Google map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ATGbGDueGX3fBrEZ9 There are two entrances to the meeting spot on Burke Ave Bridge: Webster Ave and E204th st and Bronx boulevard at Rosewood playground. If you are traveling via subway, take the 2-train to Wakefield or 5-train to Nereid and get off at the Burke Ave. See you there!🐻

ALT These guys and local volunteers planted 150 trees with our conservation efforts this fall. Join us again on November 25th, 2025 via link: https://bronxriveralliance.my.salesforce-sites.com//volunteerEventRegisterPageBootstrap?cid=701PA00000WJZfZYAX Or join on December 2nd, 2025 via link: https://bronxriveralliance.my.salesforce-sites.com//volunteerEventRegisterPageBootstrap?cid=701PA00000WJXDyYAP

ALT This was the clean-up with Teddy Bear Project volunteers Members Church Of God International on Saturday 11/15/2025. The fall foliage and weather made for a magical event. We are also glad to see all railings were primed then painted on 11/18/25 while we planted 150 trees. We are collectively working leaps and bounds to restore the watershed in Bronx River Forest at Burke Ave bridge.

ALT The water quality is very important to monitor due to the increase in harmful algal blooms or HABs. This photo shows slow moving water, cool temperatures, and reduction in nutrients are preventing low dissolved oxygen from causing fish die-offs.

ALT This photo shows the amount of trash and litter present. Luckily, all the eco-days with volunteers are reducing the litter left mostly by people living homeless inside Bronx River Forest. It's a beautiful place but not suitable for vagrancy.

ALT Scan the QR Code for more information on over 120 sites hosting volunteers on City Of Forest Day.

ALT The map opens to the exact meeting spot at Burke Bridge. Take the 2-train to Burke Ave and walk down the hill to the park entrance. Park on Bronx blvd and Rosewood Ave. No need to register because we only have space left for walk up participants. Use the registration link for the after party! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewC_1eMt4z9_G-4yJCMnXCJKs_5w6CS03Q_7vHE7BzBVBgzg/viewform

ALT My site will be setting up at 1:00 pm, staging plants, dropping shovels, and organizing everything. Extra gloves,tools and bags were generously donated by Partnerships For Parks, so take advantage of the beautification project on Saturday October 4th, 2025.

ALT Alpha Lehman and EELS were the group that had so much energy on September 20th. There groups planted daffodils to remember lives lost in the 9/11 terror attacks. In this photo Joan Barnes from Friends Of Soundview Park had her group dig a trench to create a edge around the outside of the flowerbed. This was filled with bulbs that will bloom in April each year.

ALT This is one of several elementary school youth who learned to garden under the supervision of their parents. Her family is a Soundview resident of The Bronx.

ALT This is Jajuan, a dedicated Bronx River Alliance staff member, who served 69 volunteers plus a dozen staff and Friends Of Soundview Park members lunch at the International Coastal Clean-up Day at Soundview Park. Some volunteers engaged in a park clean-up and others helped remove invasive plants and trees in the butterfly garden. Lunch was generally provided by Bronx River Alliance.🤸

ALT Volunteers in the Soundview Butterfly Garden created a new flowerbed with host and nectar plant for American painted lady butterflies. These gardener put in 100 native plants and grasses. This was a high priority task with removing invasive mulberry trees and mugwort.

ALT Ashlyn from PFP is a advocate for parks activities that support eco-teams, pollinator conservation, and holistic wellness. I hope Teddy Bear Project stewardship outreach events will thrive with the support from her Bronx activism.

ALT Friends Of Soundview Park Butterfly Meditation Garden Barnes family was in the house, proud to host neighbors at the bulb distribution. They encourage parks upgrades and Partnerships For Parks events.

ALT All the volunteers gave away native seeds, daffodils, and hope.

ALT NY4P had tables and a great smile to share with Soundview Parkies. They will pop up in all 5-boroughs to give away daffodils.

ALT Members Church Of God International has supported stewardship events along Bronx River and at Seton Falls. We thank this dynamic team for help with monarch butterfly conservation at Soundview Butterfly Meditation Garden. We created a new pollinator area for American painted lady butterflies. It will be planted with native perennials that all butterflies can use, however antennaria plantaginifolia will be a special host plant added this fall. Good work MCGI: To God be the glory!!🦋

ALT This is a monarch butterfly in the blue mist plants near purple coneflowers, today at the first if a series of Monarch Butterfly Celebration 2025 events at Soundview Butterfly Meditation Garden. Our 8/23/25 event today was great progress and educational opportunities continue to flow through Teddy Bear Project stewardship. We hope to see everyone at Soundview Park NY4P Daffodil & Native Seed Distribution on 9/6/25. Please register through the link and there are details inside: https://www.ny4p.org/the-daffodil-project

ALT This is another monarch butterfly seen today at 8/23/25 Monarch Butterfly Celebration 2025. The butterfly is perched on a Oak-leaved hydrangea bush at Soundview Butterfly Meditation Garden. The monarch waystation is supporting mating pairs! The next step in conservation is monitoring the milkweed plants for caterpillars and sharing seeds from asclepias syriaca. Common milkweed is thriving in the sunny areas of the garden.🦋

ALT Thank you to Green Guerillas, Materials For The Arts, and volunteers! We packed 40 lunches for MCGI participants at the first of the 2025 Monarch Butterfly Celebration events. Our volunteer greening group helped create more butterfly habitat while learning about the monarch butterfly migration now in full swing.🦋