Queens Chronicle - February 25, 2010
By AnnMarie Costella

Southeast Queens is about to get greener thanks to an initiative aimed at helping homeowners plant trees on their property. Starting this spring, New York Restoration Project (NYRP) will formally launch its Put Down Roots campaign, inviting homeowners with adequate yard space to plant trees on their property — specifically targeting those living in the 11412 and 11434 ZIP codes, which includes St. Albans and Jamaica.

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NYTimes - February 14, 2010
By Sam Dolnick

In New York, a city where tree climbing in public parks is officially considered disorderly conduct, the art of hauling yourself skyward, branch by branch, may be endangered for children and adults alike. Add the modern diversions of mobile gadgets and video games and, as Idiongo Okoro said, “you never really notice the trees.”

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NY Daily News - November 9, 2009
By Heidi Evans

First, the Yankees cleaned up on the Phillies - now Bette Midler wants the world champs to pick up the the tab to clean the 2 miles of a dirty Bronx highway outside their shiny new Stadium.

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
By Don Evans and Henrik Krogius

Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project (NYRP), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing and revitalizing parks, community gardens and public spaces in New York City, opened Brooklyn’s redesigned Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Garden to the public Thursday.

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Architectural Digest
By Jamaica Kincaid

Sentiment (A sweet sadness, a delightful longing) is a not-so-secret ingredient in the garden, and why is that? Perhaps it’s because for so long now we have regarded the garden as our first home, a holy one at that, the home we were asked to leave without coming to know it thoroughly.

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