🪴Reminder - Open Garden Day tomorrow! CSWA Book Swap and more at Urban Meadow Garden! Then enjoy Jazz at Summit Street Community Garden! And mark your calendars for a Working Waterfront "Placemaking" chat on Sunday, June 14


🌱Tomorrow, June 6: Open Garden Day in the Columbia Street Waterfront!
Including CSWA's 📚Book Swap📚
at Urban Meadow Garden!🌱

Two of our wonderful community gardens are holding events tomorrow!

First, don't miss CSWA's Book Swap at Urban Meadow Garden, 3-5 PM, where there will also be a garden learning activity, arts and crafts, and food!

Please bring any books you want to swap!

If you can't join us, you may leave your books at 1 Tiffany Place before 1:00 PM tomorrow. Please leave them in the box in the lobby!

Then head over to Summit St Community Garden for Jazz in the Garden!

🪴This will be a wonderful day to enjoy these precious green oases!🪴


Please RSVP here - space is limited.

Read Thomas Maguire's article Love This Town: Waterfront Lessons from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Read CSWA Greening Committee's Guiding Principles for Open Space and the BMT - Google Docs.


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Columbia Street Waterfront Association, Inc.
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Columbia Street Waterfront Association, Inc

Welcome to the Columbia Street Waterfront Association (CSWA). CSWA's purpose is to promote the health, vitality and character of the Columbia Street Waterfront District neighborhood, located in Brooklyn, NY, bounded to the north by Atlantic Avenue, to the east by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, to the south by Hamilton Avenue, and to the west by the East River, and to advocate for the interests of residents, businesses and others with a stake in the Columbia Street Waterfront community.

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