By Kat Rodriguez I never realized how much the City Parks Foundation has intertwined with my life, but it seems that every summer we have some sort of connection. Throughout my high school years I would attend the free Tennis Lessons at McKinley Park in Brooklyn. Last year I attended a Summer Stage Concert which [...]
Archive for July, 2011
27 Jul
Green Girls: Learning how to Preserve NYC
City Parks Foundation is proud to have the “Green Girls” from the Green Girls Summer Institute (a CPF education program) guest blog for us during their 3 week program. 7/18/2011: Time Warner and the Union Square Farmers Market Angelica Chery and Semecca Suber Today we visited the Time Warner office building, where we learned about [...]
26 Jul
A new perspective
By Alex Paans Being an Economics and Spanish major, I applied to be a PR and Marketing Intern to try something new. It was a field I didn’t really know too well and hadn’t been exposed to in school but something that I had always wondered about and had interest in. So when I was [...]
19 Jul
Middle School Students, “Green Girls,” Guest Blog
City Parks Foundation is proud to have the “Green Girls” from the Green Girls Summer Institute (a CPF education program) guest blog for us. Sewage in the City: Greenpoint, BR at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant 7/12/2011 Authors: Shahara Jordan and Xiomara Williams On the second day of the Green Girls Summer Institute, we [...]
6 Jul
Small town NC to Brownsville BK, an intern journey
By Brittany Cadwallader As a girl from small town Mint Hill, North Carolina, I had no idea what I would experience when I accepted a PR and Marketing internship with City Parks Foundation and SummerStage. In my mind I’d be seeing some great concerts and experiencing some cool places in the city while getting to [...]
