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2024 A Year of Challenges, New Partnerships and Opportunities
As 2024 draws to a close I sit down to write my final post of the year and my last as an officer and member of the board of the Friends...
Brigham Keehner
Dec 31, 20242 min read


Orlando Camargo Elected to Friends of Morningside Park Board
We are pleased to announce the election of new Board member Orlando Camargo. Orlando joins the organization's leadership team with a...
Brigham Keehner
Oct 8, 20241 min read


April Throwback - The Who at Morningside Park and the Sorry State of the Carl Schurz Monument Today
On April 5, 1968 photographer Art Kane working for Life Magazine assembled the members of The Who for a photo shoot at the Carl Schurz...
Brigham Keehner
Apr 12, 20242 min read


Your Participatory Budgeting Vote Can Help Morningside Park!
This is participatory budgeting vote week and it's not too late to vote for improvements to the park entrance at West 110th Street and...
Brigham Keehner
Apr 9, 20241 min read


Throwback Thursday - All the way back to our founding in 1981!
We've uncovered two amazing gems from our organizations archives. A paste up of the first flyer for the first meeting of the group on...
Brigham Keehner
Feb 21, 20241 min read


PRESIDENT'S YEAR END LETTER - HELP US BUILD ON A BANNER YEAR
Dear Friends, As 2023 draws to a close we celebrate major milestones and the enormous progress we have made together while recognizing...
Brad Taylor
Dec 28, 20233 min read


ACTION NEEDED! No More Funding Cuts to Parks
We're not ones to forward emails but sometimes exceptions must be made and this message from City Parks Foundation meets that high bar....
Brigham Keehner
Dec 9, 20231 min read


Water Water Everywhere
It’s been 55 years since Columbia's bulldozers rolled into Morningside Park in a failed attempt to build a gymnasium on the site in 1968,...
Jill Grossman
Aug 11, 20232 min read


Free Yoga Wednesdays
This summer patrons of Morningside Park have had the benefit of free yoga classes every Wednesday provided by the Harlem Wellness Center....
Jill Grossman
Aug 10, 20232 min read
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