The 103rd Street Community Garden in East Harlem has recently undergone some big changes, bringing a large multi-disciplinary recreational and garden space to the local community. Before the renovation, the 103rd Street Community Garden was home to a very special playground, which has since been removed from the space during the renovations. Donated to New York Restoration Project by Beverly Caplan in 2007 in memory of her late husband, Joseph H. Caplan, this playground is about to find a new home.
The playground, which was generously given to this East Harlem Community by Mrs. Caplan in order to provide children of the community a place to grow and play, will continue to provide benefits to New Yorkers of a different community. In partnership with WHEDco, an organization devoted to the economic and aesthetic enhancement of the South Bronx, NYRP will relocate the playground from 103rd Street Community Garden to the Urban Horizons housing community in the Bronx. Located in the Concourse/Highbridge section of the Bronx, this housing complex was converted from an abandoned hospital in 1997 and has won several awards including the TD Charitable Foundation Housing for Everyone Award for the Energy Retrofit (2010) and the Fannie Mae Foundation Maxwell Award for Excellence for the Production of Low-Income Housing (1998).
NYRP is proud to bring this playground to Urban Horizons. We look forward to offering the children of this neighborhood the gift that keeps on giving: a new playground through which they can safely engage with each other and the outdoors.