Volume 25, No. 4 Quarterly

Summer 2015Jackson Heights

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In This Issue

JHBG Historic Weekend Poster..................................CoverJHBG’s Student Art Contest............................................... 2Opposition to Changes to 84-11 37th Ave. Grows............. 2Editor’s Take......................................................................  3Update: New Instruments Bring Happiness to P.S. 230...........................................................................3Historic Jackson Heights Weekend Celebrates Its 25th Year!........................................................................ 4President’s Message...........................................................  5JHO Performs at Travers Park on July 5............................ 6Open Spaces and Urban Planning...................................... 6All That Airplance Noise.................................................... 8JHBG Calendar................................................................... 8Tree Count 2015: One, Two, Tree...................................... 9 JHBG Gets It Done..........................................................  10Membership Form............................................................ 11

Opposition to Changes to 84-11 37th Ave. Grows

by Daniel Karatzas

Since it came before Community Board 3 a few months ago, the outpouring of opposition to the proposed addition to 84-11 37th Ave. has grown. The proposal is for the cur-rent one-story building to become five-story, as highlight-ed in the Spring issue of Views from the Heights. JHBG is against this proposal for two reasons. The first is that it violates the rationale behind the area being landmarked in the first place. The second is that it will set a terrible precedent that will most likely result in the destruction of the remaining one-story commercial buildings along 37th Ave., turning it into a shadow-filled canyon. Residents have signed dozens of petitions circulated throughout the community. These petitions will be pre-sented to the Landmarks Preservation Commission on the hearing date, as will the many individual letters by com-munity residents sent to Meenakshi Srinivasan, chair of the LPC. Elected officials including Congressman Joseph Crowley, Councilmembers Daniel Dromm and Julissa Fer-reras, State Senator Jose Peralta and State Assemblymem-bers Michael DenDekker and Francisco Moya have jointly signed a letter against the proposed addition. The public hearing at the LPC will likely take place in mid-June. At that hearing, the community will have the opportunity to voice its opinion on the proposed addition.

If you would like to add your voice to this opposition, you can still contact LPC Chair Srinivasan. To e-mail, go to the LPC’s website at http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/maillpc.html, which will bring you directly to the page to contact the chair.

Letters can also be sent to: Meenakshi Srinivasan Chair, Landmarks Preservation Commission 1 Centre Street, 9th Floor, North New York, NY 10007 A letter or e-mail should be sent as soon as possible. To find out more information about the upcoming public hearing, contact JHBG at info@jhbg.org.

JHBG’s Student Art Contest

by Evie McKenna

JHBG sponsors an art contest each year for students in Jackson Heights, and this year’s theme is “A Garden in the City.” Barbara Kunkel, a Towers resident, is the project director. After selecting the theme, she delivers guidelines to art teachers in Jackson Heights elementary and middle schools. The work will be displayed locally for two weeks in early June in storefronts along 37th Ave. A ceremony for the winners will be on June 11 at 7 p.m. at the Community United Methodist Church (81-10 35th Ave.). Awards and cash prizes will be given to the winners. The students’ joy is apparent on their faces as they tell the audience about their works. Last year’s winner was Caitlin Cruz, a student at I.S. 145.

Caitlin Cruz

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Editor's Take

by Lila M. Stromer

Welcome to this issue of Views from the Heights.

Summer is upon us, starting with Memorial Day, which is to honor those who died while serving in the U.S. mili-tary. Unofficially, it is the beginning of the time of BBQs, family gatherings and vacations.

Always within a few weeks of Memorial Day is JHBG’s Historic Weekend. This weekend it is on June 13 and June 14. It was at this event a year ago that I met some of the JHBG crew and discovered the beautiful gardens behind those iron gates that I had barely noticed in the 11 months I had lived here. Last year’s tour was quite an eye-opening event!

My husband and I live in an apartment building that has land in the back that is not used—I frequently look out there and think how lovely it could be—and the co-op building next door, with adjoining land, has a mess of overgrown plants. Clearly they don’t have a garden com-mittee. I once asked a neighbor about the waste of land, and he thought that the management of the two buildings were feuding, but I have no idea if that’s the actual reason for that land not being used. Needless to say, I found the garden tour last year very good for my soul.

While my husband wasn’t available for the garden tour, we did the architectural tour together. We discovered that the place that we had selected to live because of its trees and quiet had so much history to it. If you’ve never been to the Historic Weekend, it is a wonderful two-day event (or one-day, if you want to do only one tour). And if you have done this before, there are more gardens this year than ever before!

Jackson Heights has been in the news a lot lately. There was a wonderful article in the New York Times, “Jackson Heights, Queens: Diverse and Evolving,” that described JH’s housing and its costs, its schools and restaurants, and it diverse community, but also that green space is limited here. In Len Maniace’s article, Changes Are Coming: More Green Space But a Dangerous Precedent, Too (p. 5), he discusses how Travers Park will be altered over

the coming 18 months to change that. But changes may not always be good, as Dan Karatzas points out in Op-position to Changes to 84-11 37th Ave. Grows (p. 2), and Melissa Zavala points out how a survey from 1968 compares to what is occurring today in Jackson Heights in her article, Open Spaces and Urban Planning, an Historical Perspective (p. 6).

Getting back to summer fun, see The JHO Performs at Travers Park on July 5 (p. 6), and there will be lots of greening events throughout the summer, such as the tree census for New York (Tree Count 2015: One, Two, Tree, p. 9) and the planting and pruning throughout Jack-son Heights on weekends.

If you want to help with any JHBG summer events or gardening, check out our calendar (p. 8); our website and FB pages always have updates, or you can write to volun-teer@jhbg.com.

Everyone at JHBG hopes you have a wonderful summer!

Until next time…

UPDATE: New Instruments Bring Happiness to I.S. 230

by Susan Latham

The last issue of Views from the Heights included an ar-ticle about a recent donation of nine musical instruments that I.S. 230 received from the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foun-dation. It also asked Jackson Heights residents to consider donating musical instruments to the school for its band and guitar programs. We’re pleased to report that Jackson Heights delivered! The school received six musical instruments in response to the article, including a flute, trumpet, keyboard and two drum machine inputs. Do you still have a musical instrument sitting in the back of your closet that’s in good working condition? Please consider donating it to I.S. 230, where it will be well used and much appreciated by students for years to come.

If you have an instrument to donate, please contact music teacher Robert Diefenbach at rdiefenbachiii@schools.nyc.gov. JHBG and I.S. 230 thank you!

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Historic Jackson Heights Weekend Celebrates Its 25th Year!

By Daniel Karatzas

It is hard to imagine that JHBG organized its first Historic weekend in 1991. Back then, Jackson Heights was not a historic district—that did not happen until 1993—and negativity about the neighborhood prevailed, in part to the media’s focus on the area’s problems rather than its virtues. I remember that year sitting with a few other JHBG members attempting to sell tickets in front of the post office on 37th Ave. More than one resident asked us what was worthwhile about the neighborhood, given all the issues surrounding Roosevelt Ave. Ah yes, good ole Roosevelt Ave. …some things don’t change.

Only six years later and none other than the New York Times profiled JHBG’s Historic Weekend celebration on the cover of its Thursday “Home” section. The gardening columnist, Anne Raver, interviewed long-time residents Betty Morris, Jessie O’Connor, Don and Katha Kato, and me. (The Katos are the organizers of the Queens World Film Festival.) All of us are still here, but back then we were pioneers in our appreciation of historic Jackson Heights. This was the first positive article on JH to appear in the Times in a generation.

Fast-forward to 2015, and the neighborhood is look-ing better than it has in a long time. Buildings are being sensitively repaired; neglected gardens at a number of buildings have been reborn; and the commercial district, while still lagging, is improving little by little. Year after year, attendance at JHBG’s garden tour and walking tour has increased; for the last few years, more than 300 tickets have been sold each year. In 2014 the Historic Weekend

activities were filmed by noted documentarian Frederick Wiseman as part of his upcoming documentary on what else…Jackson Heights. It should air on PBS later this year or in 2016. When we know more about this, we will let you know!

JHBG invites you, your friends, families and neighbors to join us for a slide lecture on Jackson Heights, an exhibit of photos and ephemera, and the garden tour and walking tour. You are welcome to do one or both tours. This year there will be 16 gardens participating in the garden tour, which is a record for this event. Come see the beauty that is right in our own neighborhood. Be part of the fun and mark your calendars for June 13 (the slide show and the garden tour) and June 14 (the walking tour).

Finally, thanks to all of the volunteers who have assisted JHBG over the years, even before this event became the hit that it is now. JHBG also thanks the garden committees of the 16 buildings participating this year. We could not do this without you!

Ticket info is on the cover of this newsletter. Tickets are also for sale on June 13 in front of the Community United Methodist Church. Tickets for the walking tour must be purchased in advance of June 14.

To find out more about its history, read Jackson Heights, A Garden in the City: The History of America’s First Garden and Cooperative Apartment Community, by

JHBG’s Daniel Karatzas. You can purchase this book around town or online at amazon.com. A Co-op Garden

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These two changes will begin to address Jackson Heights’s severe shortage of open space; only two City Council Districts have less New York City park space. The creation of more park and open space has been a top JHBG priority at least since 2009, when we held a series of community meetings, known as the Green Agenda for Jackson Heights, to identify the neighborhood’s environ-mental priorities. On another matter, there is one project whose fate is still unknown: JHBG has been helping to lead the battle against a plan to add four stories to a one-story building on the corner of 37th Ave. and 85th St. (see p. 2). JHBG opposes the plan because it would set a dangerous prec-edent for the Jackson Heights Historic District. This could turn 37th Ave. into a canyon because there are five other one-story commercial strips within two blocks on either side of the proposed development site. If you care about our landmark district, consider attending and even speak-ing out at a public hearing before the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission that’s expected to be held later this month.

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Changes Are Coming: More Green Space But a Dangerous Precedent, Too

by Len Maniace

Two big changes are coming to Jackson Heights, and they are both good. In May the neighborhood got a glimpse of the city’s plans to turn Diversity Plaza, formerly known as 37th Road, into a full-fledged New York City pedes-trian plaza. And later this month, the city expects to pres-ent plans for the newly expanded and redesigned Travers Park. The $3.5 million plan, which was presented at Diversity Plaza on May 9, includes a tree-lined plaza on the eastern half of the street and an area that could serve as a per-formance space on the western half. Also envisioned are new tables and chairs, additional plantings, new plaza lighting and the repaving of the plaza so the street and sidewalks are on one level. Construction is scheduled to commence summer 2016 and be completed by the end of 2017. BTW, Diversity Plaza will accommodate Make Music New York on June 21, the annual first day of free summer music events that take place across the city. Later this summer, the plaza is expected to be the site of a series of short and mid-length films from around the world. Both projects are being sponsored by JHBG and are in coop-eration with Friends of Diversity Plaza.

The plan for the new Travers Park would bring dramatic changes, including creation of a great lawn accompanied by new trees and smaller plantings, which together would take up about two-thirds of the park’s asphalt sports field. The remaining third would be used for an expansion of the playground and for creation of a tennis court. Two ad-ditional tennis courts would be created in Staunton Field, the Garden School’s old athletic field. That field is also expected to include an informal ball field, with a striped baseball diamond. The plaza at 78th St. will also receive the city’s pedestri-an-plaza treatment, including additional trees and a series of steps rising to Staunton Field, which could also serve as a performance space for programs such as JHBG’s Summer Sundays in the Park, now about to enter its 12th season. Because construction of the new Travers Park is expected to take some 18 months to complete, City Coun-cilmember Daniel Dromm, who championed the project, is calling for the rebuilding to take place in phases so the park is not shut down entirely during construction.

Diversity Plaza Plans

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The JHO Performs at Travers Park on July 5

by Pat Glunt

The Jackson Heights Orchestra is performing at Travers Park on July 5 at 4 p.m., led by JHO associate conductor Steven Rosenhaus. Rosenhaus is a published composer, conductor, educator and a Queen’s resident. The program will include patriotic favorites, melodies from The Sound of Music, a new work by local composer and orchestra member Joseph Bartolozzi and a mixture of light selections. The concert will last around an hour; bring a chair because seating is limited. The concert is part of the Summer Concerts in the Park Series, which is sponsored by JHBG. If it rains, the concert will be held at I.S. 145 (33-34 80th Ave.).

The orchestra just completed its third season under the leadership of Patricia Glunt, who is the JHO’s founder and artistic director. The orchestra has performed in Jackson Heights, Mineola, Astoria and Bayside. The orchestra has grown to 35 members and has a regular following of around 200 attendees at the JH concerts.

The fourth season will open with a concert on December 9. It will feature a new work written for the JHO by P. Kellach Waddle. Waddle resides in Texas and is excited for the JHO to perform his work. He is a Pulitzer Prize nominee with close to 500 works and has 42 premieres scheduled between now and early 2017. Also on the December program will be violinist Kinga Augustyn, performing a Bach concerto. You can find out more closer to the time on JHBG’s website, Facebook page, Twitter account, e-newsletter and right here in Views from the Heights.

The orchestra is looking to expand its membership. If you are interested in joining, please contact Pat Glunt at jack.hgt.orch@gmail.com. There is still time to join for the July 5 concert! Rehearsals start June 16 and continue for two consecutive Tuesdays at the Community United Methodist Church from 7:15 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. Rehearsals for the December concert will begin in October. The JHO operates under the banner of the JHBG and is an adult community orchestra with a mission to promote local talent and explore and embrace the diversity of Queens.

Open Spaces and Urban Planning, an Historical Perspective

By Melissa Zavala

Editor’s Note: With the upcoming Historic Weekend and a public hearing on a proposed development within the Historic District later this month, we present this perspective by JHBG board member Melissa Zavala, a professor in the anthropology department of The City College of New York-CUNY.

Influenced by the international garden city movement, a number of the buildings around Jackson Heights were built around private gardens. The importance of open spaces promoting the healthful effects of ventilation was an important benefit of planned garden communities. Increasing ventilation, a key component of planned communities early last century, came as a response to crowded slum conditions like those typical in downtown Manhattan (the Lower East Side is a prime example).

Because the buildings in JH erected by the Queensboro Corp. were built around what were essentially private parks, the neighborhood at large was left wanting in public parkland. This lack has become all the more pronounced as the community has grown over time and has lost some of the open spaces long-time residents still remember today, such as the golf course and related facilities once located at the site of the current Dunnolly Gardens complex. More recently, New York City has collaborated with neighborhood groups (JHBG is a leading advocate for parks and their maintenance) to compensate for this lack by creating pedestrian plazas. The value of open spaces, the attractiveness of

Concert from March 2015

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street “furniture”—think benches, street lights and the like—and the ways in which residents experience a neighborhood’s overall feel and look were topics deemed worth exploring by the city’s Housing and Development Administration in March 1968 with then-Mayor John V. Lindsey. Looking at archival documents housed in LaGuardia Community College’s LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, this article sums up some of the findings gathered by Lawrence Halprin, a leading architect at the time. The survey he and his team conducted, the first of its kind, provided an early look at the importance of open spaces, construction designs and the varied elements that make cities livable from the perspective of urban dwellers.

Analyzing six case studies in 1968, Halprin’s study of communities in different stages of completion (ranging from the planning stage, to those under construction and to those recently completed at that time) considered the changes to NYC’s housing stock and landscape over the course of three decades. Planning trends, which ranged from Le Corbusier’s modern architecture to the “garden in the city” plan that formed the foundation of Jackson Heights, provide a visible record of the city’s evolution. The results of Halprin’s study, summarized here, find echoes today given the current trends in construction—not just in JH but also across the city as a whole. Halprin’s emphasis on “the careful placement of buildings, tree plantings, lighting and street furniture” became Mayor Lindsey’s stated goal for creating “a more imaginative and beautiful environment” in response to the findings. This goal, too, resonates today.

In short, the report’s conclusions suggest that “to put life back into the city, plans must make greater use of useful open space for the people.” And while cities should be densely populated in order to preserve their liveliness, they should nevertheless be constructed with care and an eye to design, at least to this writer’s mind. The 1968 report’s main recommendations included:

• Greater use of neighborhood parks

• Plazas with play and shopping areas

• Low-rise buildings in combination with taller struc-tures to restore a sense of scale to the community

• Communal gardens inside common backyards

• Mid-block crossings, and

• Multidimensional streets

With JH seeing a growing number of proposed projects, including increasingly taller buildings, the

neighborhood runs the risk of losing its character. The growing uniformity of tall glass towers constructed for luxury units threatens the vibrancy of all neighborhoods by making them more standardized and, by extension, less like the city that NYC has historically been. New York City’s history is characterized by lively street life that has always included waves of immigrant communities and the integration of their tastes and customs into the very fabric of their neighborhoods. Along with this feature, New York City has also continuously made room for diverse shops—even street vendors. As the city continues to expand, it is useful to reflect on the lessons learned from previous eras and to consider that as the city grows, residents should seek to preserve the diversity that has made New York a particularly desirable city to live in. Creating and preserving open spaces is of particular importance in a neighborhood that suffers from a scarcity of parks, such as Jackson Heights. All of these considerations are of special relevance right now as a range of plans is presented to the Jackson Heights community. For example, there are plans for the improvement of Diversity Plaza, development of the 78th St. Play Street and proposals for sites like the one that, until recently, was the White Castle headquarters.

Planting at P.S. 69 expands nature in Jackson Heights

The former White Castle Headquarters

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JHBG Summer 2015 Events Calendar

JHBG invites your participation in the following events. Stay the entire time, part of the time, offer your expertise or learn something new! We provide the tools, and volunteers of all ages are always welcome. Watch our Facebook page (facebook.com/JHBGNY) and our website (JHBG.org) for times, locations and any changes to the following. To find out more, contact us at volunteer@jhbg.org.

June

• Sat., June 13, Tree LC: Care for street trees, 10 a.m.–noon. Meet at 84th St. and 37th Ave.

• Sat., June 13 and Sun., June 14: Historic Weekend, garden and architectural tours of the Historic District.

• Sun., June 21 (for 9 consecutive Sundays): Summer Sundays in the Park, Travers Park. Free.

• Sun., June 21, 1 to 6 p.m., Make Music New York (music from the streets of New York), at Diversity Plaza. Free.

• Saturday Green Zone: Care for gardens, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. 6/6: 90th St., tree surrounds; 6/20: 94th St. and 35th Ave.; 6/27: P.S. 280

July

• Sun., July 5, JHO Concert, Travers Park, 4-5 p.m. Free.

JH-SCRAPS Every Saturday bring your scraps to JH-SCRAPS, 69th St. and 35th Ave. between 11 a.m.–1 p.m.. JH-SCRAPS is JHBG’s composting location. For info on what is and isn’t compostable, write to jhscraps@jhbg.org.

All That Airplane Noise: Port Authority of NY and NJ to Hear Your Complaints

By John McCaffrey Jr. and Len Maniace

It’s 6 a.m. Saturday morning, time to be awakened by the roar of airplanes flying low over Jackson Heights on their way to LaGuardia Airport. Time to start posting angry com-ments on Facebook and Jackson Heights Life, to call com-plaining to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the airport’s owner—and to fume over your lost sleep.

You have one more option later this month, when the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey holds public meet-ings over noise at LaGuardia and Kennedy Airports, a program officially known as Airport Noise Compatibility. The workshops will be a unique opportunity for the pub-lic to interact with Port Authority staff. Given the “open house” format, the public can attend at any time during the two-hour session to talk one-on-one with officials. The workshops will present information on the project sched-ule, noise metrics and methods used to quantify aircraft noise exposure. Here’s the info for the LGA meeting:

LGA Public Information WorkshopDATE: Tuesday, June 16, 2015TIME: 6–8 p.m.LOCATION:New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott102-05 Ditmars Boulevard, East Elmhurst, NY 11369

Anyone with questions about access accommodations or general questions on the project should contact the Noise Office at 212-435-3880 at least 72 hours prior to the meet-ing.

Tending the Street Trees

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Tree Count 2015: One, Two, Tree

By Len Maniace

This summer New Yorkers will be counting every street tree in the city as part Tree Count 2015. That’s every honey locust and London plane; each Ginkgo and sweet gum; in all, an estimated 170 tree species.

Armed with the Tree Count 2015 stats, the city hopes to better care for and manage its street trees, as well as develop polices to make our city a more livable and envi-ronmentally friendly place. This census will be the third, and unlike previous ones will be tech savvy. JHBG will be participating in the tree count here. Read on for how you can participate.

The 2005 Street Tree Census counted 592,130 trees. From a growing body of research, the city estimated those trees produced $122 million in annual environmental benefits, such as cleaner air and water, cooler streets and homes and the capture of carbon that otherwise would have contrib-uted to global warming.

As a result, Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the city’s Million Trees program in 2007, which is to be completed this fall. The 2005 census found 19 percent more street trees than the 498,470 counted in the 1995-96 census.

The earlier census uncovered a hazard on city streets—10,000 dead trees, which caused the city to re-move them and to prune trees on a regular basis.

The city is now recruiting community groups and individu-als to volunteer for the census and will soon begin training them. Among the lessons to be taught: how to identify the tree species they are counting.

Tree species is one of 16 types of information to be gath-ered for each tree. Others include tree condition: Is the

tree dead, alive, are its roots overgrown, is there evidence that tree is being cared for? That last point makes a differ-ence in the long-term survival of a street tree, said Katerli Bounds, the Parks Department’s Director of Stewardship; trees with three or more signs that they are regularly being cared for generally will live longer.

“The fact that people are paying attention and know that the trees are there really does have an impact,” Bounds said.

The Parks Department expects anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 volunteers, many more than 10 years ago. The census will benefit from digital communications improve-ments: a Smart phone app will provide satellite images of tree locations and allow you to record tree data. There will be pens and paper for those who prefer that method.

“In 2005 there weren’t Smart phones,“ Bounds said. “It was all paper data collection, which meant we got Xeroxed copies of data sheets back at the end.”

This year’s census is expected to find another increase in street trees, largely because of the Million Trees program. That effort has planted 143,000 street trees to date; with more planted in parks; schools and other institutions; and on private property, such as for those who picked up a tree at the Tree Giveaway JHBG ran this past April. JHBG will participate in the tree count during July to count every street tree in the neighborhood. Volunteers will be equipped with a color tree-identification guide (the best and simplest to use that I’ve seen), T-shirts and gear, plus increasing prizes as the number of trees tallied grows. JHBG can use your help for one or two Saturday mornings between two and three hours each day. If you are interested in helping, please contact us at volunteer@jhbg.com; write “Tree Count” in the subject line.

Tree Giveaway in April

Volunteers at Work (and Play)

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VIEWS FROM THE HEIGHTS

Volume 25 Number 4Summer 2015

Jackson Heights Beautification GroupPO Box 720253

11372-0235

General: info@jhbg.orgNewsletter: views@jhbg.org

EditorLila M. Stromer

ContributorsDaniel KaratzasSusan LathamLen Maniace

John McCaffrey Jr.Evie McKenna

Pat GluntRodrigo Salazar Lila M. StromerMelissa Zavala

Graphic DesignJames Stonebraker

JHBG Board of DirectorsLen Maniace, President*

Nuala O’Doherty, First V.P*John McCaffrey Jr., Second V.P.*

Janet Kelly, Treasurer*Edwin O’Keefe Westley, Secretary*

Leslie EllmanPat Glunt*

Daniel Karatzas*Barbara KunkelSusan Latham Julia McInnessEvie McKenna

Jim Riccio*Rodrigo Salazar

Doris Derwik WurglerMelissa Zavala

Maire Breen, Emeritus* Executive Committee

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Membership Form for Jackson Heights Beautification Group

Your annual donation/membership in JHBG helps us fund neighborhood activities, demonstrates your com-mitment to a better community and permits us to be your voice in the revitalization of Jackson Heights. Your support is important to the future of our neighborhood. JHBG is 100 percent volunteer - there is no paid staff. JHBG is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and your contribution is tax deductible.

Please make checks payable to: Jackson Heights Beautification Group. You will be mailed a receipt for tax purposes.

Please fill out this page and return it with your payment to:

JHBG — MembershipBox 720253

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at the Community United Methodist Church

The Jackson Heights Beautification Group’sGood Neighbor Awards

are back!

JHBG will be honoring those people whose contributions toJackson Heights deserve special recognition.

Nominations from you—our community—will be set up shortly.

Check the JHBG website, Facebook page and Twitter account!