Support the Cadman Park Conservancy

The Cadman Park Conservancy is an all-volunteer community based non-profit 501C-3. We partner with NYC Parks to improve our precious park through advocacy, fundraising and volunteer activities. Our work and your contribution help to keep our park vibrant, clean, safe and blooming! Please join us in supporting this critical neighborhood resource.

Additionally, our park is home to the Brooklyn War Memorial. We are working to re-open this space to the public. The memorial is dedicated to the more than 300,000 heroic men and women of the borough of Brooklyn who served in World War II.

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The Cadman Park Conservancy was recently honored by the Historic Districts Council with a 2024 Grassroots Award. We are grateful to be recognized by one of the most prolific leading preservation organizations of NYC for our work. The Conservancy is extremely thankful for our successful partnership with the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, and all of our community volunteers making this acknowledgment possible! A very special heartfelt thanks to the Brooklyn Eagle’s Mary Frost for covering this beautiful event. Read more!

Cadman Park Conservancy and supporters (Front row from left) Board Members Agnes Djaha, Cheryl Moch, (President) Doreen Gallo, Myriam Victoria, and NYC Parks Department’s Diana Olaizola. (Back row) HDC Executive Dir. Frampton Tolbert, Rick Brown, Cathy Becker, Bob London, and NYC Parks Department Anil Chandrakumar. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle

*Some of our board members unable to the HDC event and not in the Brooklyn Eagle Photo: Serhiy Mshanetskiy, Irene Janner, Laura Winner, Thomas Winner, Kaesun Alexis John, Marie Cecile Flageul, and Leonard Jordan.

If you can’t contribute financially, there are so many other ways to help Cadman Plaza Park!

Do you like to garden?

Do you happily wield a rake?

Do you have fun digging in the dirt?

Volunteer

Is fund-raising your jam?

Do you have other ideas to share?

We’d love to hear from you!

Over the past several years, the Cadman Park Conservancy has worked with the Parks Department to improve the park’s cleanliness, sustainability and community involvement.
While we remain dedicated to the Conservancy’s ongoing commitment to improving the Park, we can’t do it without your support! A donation, no matter how small, to this wonderful neighborhood institution, would be much appreciated and put to good use.

In Friendship and With Gratitude,

Doreen Gallo, President,

Cadman Park Conservancy

News | Events | Cadman Park Conservancy

Veterans day

Please join the Conservancy on November 10th! We will be spreading mulch and planting the remainder of our daffodil bulbs!
Meet at Juneteenth Grove, between the athletic field and the circle garden.

Volunteer Gardening

Wednesday Volunteer Gardening Session 9:30-11:30am.

We are grateful to all of the gardeners and appreciate the work that you are doing to help maintain and nurture the park. Join us again this Wednesday!

This Sunday!

The Conservancy's Community Planting event Sunday, October 20th 10-12! Please join us!

Volunteers!

We hope you’re enjoying the beautiful weather and are spending some of your time in the park! The Conservancy was happy to host student volunteers from the Service Collective last Tuesday afternoon. The volunteers planted daffodils along the east fence of the park, along Cadman Park East. We look forward to seeing the results of their work in the beginning of Spring! Thank you for planting with us! We appreciate your help!!
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Last Thursday afternoon, student volunteers from St. Francis College joined us for a wonderful afternoon. It was a gorgeous day. Volunteers planted native perennials in both Juneteenth Grove and along the fenced in area on the northeast side of the park adjacent to the Brooklyn War Memorial. The weather was spectacular!
Over the summer, our SYEP (student youth employment program) interns planned newly planted areas after researching soil, native plants and their locations under the supervision of NYC Parks and Recreation gardeners: Jessica Kulig and Ketsia Furvilas. Their internships ended in August and it was not the best time to plant their proposed gardens.

Volunteer Gardening

Wednesday Volunteer Gardening Session 9:30-11:30am.

We are grateful to all of the gardeners and appreciate the work that you are doing to help maintain and nurture the park. Join us again this Wednesday!

Date Change!

The Conservancy's Community Planting event date this month has been changed from Sunday, October 13th to Sunday, October 20th 10-12! We apologize for any inconvenience with the change of date. Please join us!

Out of the Darkness Walk

This past Sunday, Cadman hosted an AFSP Out of the Darkness Walk.
The Cadman Park Conservancy would like to thank Hannah Moch for her tireless dedication to this important issue and for organizing the walk in Cadman.

Text and images from Hannah Moch- “The New York City Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) hosted their Brooklyn Out of the Darkness Walk in Cadman Plaza Park on September 15th. AFSP’s mission is to save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. Together Brooklynites raised nearly $50,000 for AFSP’s support and education programs, advocacy and research.”

Volunteer Gardening

Wednesday Volunteer Gardening Session 9:30-11:30am.

Please Join NYC Parks and Recreation Department Gardeners Jessica Kulig and Ketsia Fervilas for our
Meet at 9:30am in the front of the Brooklyn War Memorial. Hope to see you there!

Walk with us

On Sunday, September 15th,
The Brooklyn & Queens Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is returning to Cadman Plaza Park for their Out Of The Darkness Walk. Special thanks to Hannah Moch for your leadership and bringing attention to this important issue with this meaningful event. To join the walk, please register at: afsp.org

London Plane Trees

We’ve had a very hot few weeks and the park is experiencing the effects of the extreme heat. The London Plane trees shed leaves prematurely to conserve water and protect themselves from dehydration. Parks Department employees have been very busy raking the whole park and clearing the leaves from the lawns.

Volunteer Gardening

Wednesdays 9:30-11:30am

Join our Wednesday Volunteer Gardeners led by NYC Brooklyn Parks Gardener Jessica Kulig.

Please meet at 9:30am in front (of the statue side) of the Brooklyn War Memorial.

Storytime!

Storytime Wednesday July 3, 10:30am

Meet BPL librarians in the grassy area adjacent to Juneteenth Grove. Please join us for this wonderful and popular children's reading time in the park.

Photo by Bob London