Join the Tribute Center volunteers in remembering our loved ones by planting daffodils
at the Memorial Grove in Lower Manhattan. Celebrate the Lower Manhattan community resurgence over the past ten years.
DATE: Sunday, October 23, 2011
TIME: 2:00 - 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Memorial Grove (formally Printing House Square)
Park Row and Centre Street, between City Hall Park and Pace University
Manhattan, NY 10038
RAIN DATE: Sunday, October 30th
PLEASE RSVP TO dbarrette@tributewtc.org
The Tribute WTC Visitor Center Volunteer Program invites you to the Memorial Grove in Lower Manhattan on Sunday, October 23 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. You are invited to help plant 10,000 bulbs as part of the Daffodil Project, a city-wide memorial project organized by New Yorkers for Parks with the support of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and the New York City Council. As part of the September 11th community, the Tribute Center selected the Daffodil Project as our gift to the Lower Manhattan community this year.
Our location will be the "Living Memorial Grove" on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge. There is a small park just south of the pedestrian entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge. In this space, are trees from the WTC plaza plus one tree from the Oklahoma City bombing site.
For more information about the Daffodil Project, please visit:
http://www.ny4p.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=221
Sandwiches from Sophie's Cuban Cuisine will be served.
The Co-Founder of the Tribute Center Jennifer Adams, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Councilmember Domenic Recchia, and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe will attend and make brief remarks.
Project History
The Daffodil Project was created to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11th and serves as a living memorial to the victims, a symbol of remembrance, and an act of rebirth that involves citizens in the revitalization of their communities. Each fall, New Yorkers for Parks distributes hundreds of thousands of daffodil bulbs to New Yorkers in all five boroughs. The bulbs are free to anyone who commits to planting them in a park or public space. Due to the tremendous support and interest in this project, Mayor Bloomberg named the daffodil the official flower of New York City in 2007.
