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

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Thank you!

Thank you for your hard work!

Founding Conservancy President, Toba Potosky spent part of his holiday weekend with Owen Bluestine, a sophomore at Syracuse University. Thank you Owen for collecting 65 bags of leaves, making a tremendous difference in Cadman Plaza Park. We appreciate your commitment, generosity of your time and hard work. Thank you, Owen!

Veteran Roy Vanasco

The Conservancy extends our deep sympathy with sharing the news of the passing of WWII Veteran Roy Vanasco.

Roy and his brother Jack were longtime community activists and champions leading the community to reopen the Brooklyn War Memorial. We have so many wonderful memories of their love and meaningful contributions to our park and community. RIP Roy Vanasco, always in our hearts. The Conservancy remembers you with love, respect and an abundance of gratitude.

Obituary for Roy Vanasco

If you would like to make a donation in honor of Roy Vanasco, we will be planting in his memory, in our Brooklyn Memorial Garden.

Giving Tuesday

Happy December, Happy Giving Tuesday!

Please consider making an end of year donation to the Cadman Park Conservancy. Contributions will go towards our continued planting of native perennials in Cadman Plaza Park. We appreciate you, our park community. This is an opportunity to give back to our park. Every contribution is meaningful to the Conservancy and will go a long way.

Athletic Field

Sharing the Athletic Field: A Community Effort

The Athletic Field is for everyone! New signs will soon define passive and active sports areas during soccer games.

Concerns about children’s play being disrupted by adult leagues are being addressed. The Park Supervisor will monitor the field this weekend to ensure it stays welcoming for all.

Thank you for helping keep our park enjoyable!

Thank you!

This past Sunday, Cadman Park Conservancy and The Service Collective volunteers spread mulch, planted daffodil bulbs, and cleared leaves in Juneteenth Grove. Thanks to everyone who helped care for our park—your support makes a big difference!

Volunteer Gardening

The Conservancy Wednesday Gardening Volunteers ended for 2024 this week.

The Cadman Park Conservancy thanks NYC Parks Gardener Jessica Kulig for leading the gardeners and all of our volunteers for gardening and taking care of the park. The generosity of your time and help has made a significant impact in our community. We wholeheartedly thank you and look forward to seeing you again in the Spring!

Veterans Day 2024

The Cadman Park Conservancy is thankful to all Veterans for their commitment to our country. We honor all Veterans and hold the memory of those who have passed in our hearts. Wishing all who have served, our deep gratitude.

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!