#mcgolrick park

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nightcrawlin’

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Competitive Winter Picnicking in McGolrick Park

On Sunday, March 3, 2024, another edition of Competitive Winter Picnicking took place in McGolrick Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Originally planned to take place the first Saturday in March, it was moved to the following day due to rain. Thanks to the wet weather, the picnic area was a little muddy, but the weather on Sunday was unusually warm with the highest temperature reaching 60 degrees.

What is Competitive Winter Picnicking? Teams register in advance and come up with a theme, drinks, food, and games. Judges then decide the best in each category for cash prizes and the top three categories also taking home trophies.

Images from the event yesterday afternoon can be found in the gallery on my website here, which were taken for Shadow Traffic. Many thanks to Jonah for having me out to capture this year’s edition! Results for yesterday’s event can be found below.

For more Competitive Winter Picnicking, previous years are available on this site via the tag here.

Results Most Fried - Onion Ringwraiths Best Cum Shot - Bimbo BBQ Best Sound FX - Oscar's Pic A Nic Most Healing - Panda-monium Picnic Pileup Punniest - Sewer La Table Best Bribe - BIRDING MAN Best Picnic Game - IKEA Best Rhymes - Ini Mini Best Funerary Offering - Cult of Spud Biggest Balls - The Grand Ball Most Blood Spilled - Carrot & Stick Best Food - Loompa Land Trust Fall (4th place) Best Drink - Children of the Crust (3rd place) Most Thematic - Crow-K (2nd place) Best In Show - Dumpster Dive Bar (1st place)

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Looking up a path in #Msgr_McGolrick_Park in #Greenpoint, #Brooklyn.

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If you're in NYC, I have a piece in a group show opening tonight!<3 6-9pm @ McGolrick park, Brooklyn

[heylabodega]

I am once again sitting on my bed on a beautiful Saturday morning, windows open and and fan blowing in what is probably toxic air but it feels clean and fresh because it's cool, drinking iced coffee and tearing up from sheer overwhelm. Every time over the last five years on a Saturday morning when I have gazed around me at the light in an imperfect home and mourned it before it was gone, I have found new homes, new lights, new open windows with new fresh breezes. Saturdays go on, and spaces carved out of them keep finding me, and when I have to move again this December what new things will come, and I will add these three windows, this corner coffeeshop, Meg down the street, McGolrick Park, to the list of Saturday mornings I'll never see again. I'm very happy. Does this make sense?

[myyrooom]

bagel joint at mcgolrick/park slope farmers markets

seven grain army

rowdy Rooster — GF indian fried chicken

Dosa Guy in Washington Square

Nom Wah — 1 GF dumpling option on the menu

Bunna

ThisBowl

Tigerlily Kitchen

Gnocchi on 9th Orchard Street

Rubirosa Or Keste for pizza

El Churro

Posh Pop

Claro

Nami nori

[citylifeorg]

NYC Parks Celebrates Extensive Upgrades at Mcgolrick Park in Brooklyn

[corndoggod]

Casual Fridays

I was late for work, racing over the Manhattan bridge headbanging to Alex G.’s new album, repeating tracks 2-4 for the big hill and descent into Dimes Square madness, and I felt like I had my old job back because I wasn’t doing my job and I didn’t care.

It was so hot (100+) that we slept in the living room under the AC and I felt like a pilgrim, huddled in a common room for comfort. Rather than a village there was just our small family. Connor, Celina, Chicken nestled onto a Nestle-colored couch. I got up first, as usual, to Chicken meowing for breakfast at a cool 6:30am.

It took us a while to get our stuff in order. My belly was still full from the night before, when we made four different pizzas using dough from Antonio’s. I was unsatiable after biking three loops around Central Park (37.5 miles at 15 mph = 2,000 cal.) in the hottest hours of the day. My legs felt wobbly and my head felt light. I was salty as the sea drinking Gatorade after Gatorade. I hadn’t had a beer since yesterday. And before that since Saturday. I was working my body too hard to poison it.

C. wanted to go on a morning ride with me, so we went up to Greenpoint for a cold brew from Crema BK I’d been hyping for months. I hadn’t been in years, but there was the same couple manning the little window stand. I got a 16 oz for just $4.25 and we walked our bikes to McGolrick and found a shady spot to sip and eat our croissant and blueberry lemon bundt cake. The sun’s latticed beams mirrored the sycamore bark. “You should make a t shirt like that,” I said. “I was just thinking that.”

Founded in the 1890s, McGolrick was our favorite park. Everyone was pregnant or with dog. We… we were with pastry, as was usually the case on morning rides. Next time I’ll get up earlier and we can ride to Shirley Chisholm for the sunrise. Or bring our note/books to McGolrick so we can scribble and read.

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Frosty.

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Around Msgr McGolrick Park, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Spring 2018.

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snow days

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[ourstreetsourstories]

ANNA CANO AMATO

“We started taking a more active role in physically becoming stewards of the park (McGolrick Park) with our children and that helped generate a feeling of belonging.”

Ana Cano Amato is interviewed by Acacia Thompson at PS 110 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on November 29, 2018.

To hear the excerpt, click above.

To hear the full interview, click here.

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Muna Mahamed, 2017

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Marlene Vasquez

November 5, 2021

Family and Community Treasures

EDCE 22102 - Fall 2021

 Breaking the Barriers “Farmers Market”      

             After our last assignment, I realized something very interesting about the Farmers Market. People who have “snap” benefits are able to use their cards to pay for fresh produce in any NYC farmer’s market. So, this got me thinking about the area where I live and how many Farmers markets are available to people within my community, which is low-income families. I took it upon myself to investigate this. I did some research online to see how many farmers markets I could go to within a 5mile distance from where I live and the dates/times they are open. This is what I found:

1.     McCarren Park Green Market only open on Saturday 8am-2pm

2.     Down to Earth McGolrick Park Farmers Market only open Sunday 10am-3pm

3.     Ridgewood Farm stand Open only Saturday 8am-3pm

4.     RB Bushwick Farmers Market Open only Saturday 9am-4pm

Then I interviewed some of my friends and families on the topic. I simply asked them three questions. First, “Do you know what the farmers market is? Second, do you know where the bears famers marketplace is around the area where we live? Third, did you know people with Snap benefits can use it towards buying fresh produce from the farmers market? Their responds where:

Lisette G:

Question 1: “Yes”

Question 2: “No”

Question 3: “WOW No I did not, That’s amazing!”

Ricardo A.

Question 1: “Yes”

Question 2: “No”

Question 3: “Nice”

David F.

Question 1: “yes”

Question 2: “No clue”

Question 3: “Oh word! I thought that was only for rich people”

Johnny A.

Question 1: “No Se”  

Question 2: “No”

Question 3: “Que bueno” how good

Tony V.

Question 1: “Yes”

Question 2: “I think There’s one all the way down, where the Williamsburg Bridge is”

Question 3: “For real? Then How come we don’t have it near our house though?”

Ana V.

Question 1: “Si”         

Question 2: “hay uno en la 14st cuando tu sales del tren L” There’s one on 14st when you come out the L train

Question 3: “no lo creo, dejame decirle a Patria” I can’t believe it, Let me tell Patria (her friend)

Jasmine T.

Question 1: “yes”

Question 2: “Not a clue bro”

Question 3: “That’s awesome, it’s sad they don’t announce it on tv or social media so that people would be well informed of this”

Bryan M.

Question 1: “Isn’t that where people from close farms like from NJ come over to the city and sell their crops?”

Question 2: “I don’t think they come to Brooklyn. That’s for rich wealthy people”

Question 3: “Oh word! No way! I have to look into that. I have a lot of friends that are going to be really hype to hear that”

             I also when to the farmers market that is located in Union Square Park, and I was able to interview one of the venders that was there. I was able to ask if he often gets many people paying for the produce that they purchased, by using EBT/Snap. He responded that he does get some customers that uses it but he has noticed that most people pay with either Apple pay, Debt/credit or cash. I then asked him why he think that is and what he thinks would help people become more aware of this amazing benefits? He explained that he does think that the reason why most people use other forms of payment instead of EBT/Snap, is because it’s not promoted well enough. The way that it could change would be by making the signs up higher on each tent that shows that people can use their EBT/Snap benefits. It was a great experience because I was able to be well informed on this topic and it influenced me to speak more about it with those around me as well as positing it on my social media to inform others that perhaps have EBT and would like to get fresh produce from the farmer’s market.

 The way That I would be breaking this barrier would be by talking with more people on this topic. Which I started off by doing so with the interviews of those around me. The second thing I plan on posting this information out on social media so that it not only reaches people within my home community but also those that live in different locations where they could then do their own research on whether or not they would get the same benefits with their nearby farmer’s market. Lastly, I spoke with a couple vendors in the farmers market located in 14st Union Square about putting up a large sign that indicates all the different payment methods and showing off the Snap card in bold. So far this action has brought awareness to many people that I know, and it has provided those people to spread the word to others as well. I think this barrier needs to be broken down because there's a lot of people that should be able to benefit from having fresh produce in their home without having to use other forms of payments and not having to travel far to get this service. In the reading “Language Development in Early Childhood” by Beverly Otto states great insights on the importance of children's exposure to language not only in schools but also with their families. Chapter two states, “Verbal interactions with children at home are more tailored for each child or, at most, shared with other children in the family unit” (Otto, pp 30). This is something that is very important because children grasp so much from their family and the day-to-day involvement that their families go through. One of the greatest things about breaking this barrier is that children can help their parents obtain this information when they go with their families to the farmers market. Going based off the community I based this topic on, there’s a large amount of people that would have trouble speaking English to the venders, therefore they can have their children not only be exposed to this new place of getting fresh produce but also exercising their language by helping translate for their parents/guardian at the farmer’s market. There is another interesting article that gives some rich insights of system theories titled, “Ecological Systems Theory: The Person in the Center of the Circles” by Nancy Darling. This article states, “When predicting the strength of association of parental knowledge with positive aspects of development (social skills, friendships with prosocial peers, good academic performance), one might predict a stronger association in high-resource environments'' (pp 215). This is so important for children to be exposed to a new system, where people come from a different state to provide fresh farm grown foods that their families can enjoy together. I think this is a positive aspect of what can occur with this barrier breaking.  

Another insightful article is “The Experimental Ecology of Education” by Urie Bronfenbrenner states, “Thus the experience of a child in day care, in the classroom, or the informal peer group, may change the pattern of activities and interaction with parents or siblings in the home, or vice versa, with consequent implications of learning and development” (Bronfenbrenner, pp10). I think this quote is very important because as I stated before when families go food shopping, they tend to bring their children alone with them. By doing so they are exposing them to a new way of shopping for fresh produce that they could eat as a family and perhaps use that information through imaginary play with their friends and open to the conversations about the farmers market that that child’s family goes to. In the last article “What Is a System and a System Perspective?” By David Aloyzy Zera, I’ve gathered insight into system theory. It stated, “When one part of a system changes (or adapts to change), further change occurs, necessitating self-organization as the system tries to equalize itself to the new demands” (,pp). I think that this is a very important quote to analyze because it relates to many systems changing by breaking this barrier of exposing the information of people with snap being able to use their benefits to pay for fresh produce in a farmers’ market. As well as the change that would occur if more farmers market stations would open around the low-income family’s area and they would be available more than just once a week. I believe that system theory would play a big role in this area.

   Citation

 Beverly Otto. 2018. Language Development in Early Childhood. 5th ED. Pearson

 Nancy Darling, 2007 “Ecological Systems Theory: The Person in the Center of the Circles”

Urie Bronfenbrenner. (July 16, 2014). The Experimental Ecology of Education.

  http://www.jstor.org/stable/1174755. 10.

David Aloyzy Zera. What Is a System and a System Perspective?

1. Did you know that the farmer’s market accepts EBT/Snap as a form of payment?

2. Do you know the nearest Farmer’s Market place near your community? 

3. Do you think this this is an important topic to share? if so, why?

4. Do you agree that this is a barrier that needs to be broken? Why or Why not?