City Year New York’s May 9th Service Days


Thanks to everyone who has registered for May 2nd’s “LICense to Serve” Day in Queens. It isn’t too late to register! We are also very excited to offer 2 opportunities to serve on May 9th in the Bronx and in Brooklyn.

Bronx Building Bronx and The East New York Community Service Day both need volunteers to pitch in and volunteer at both days.

The event in the Bronx will be held at PS 154 (135th Street & Alexander Ave.); the opening ceremony will start at 9:00AM and the day of service will be followed by a Street Fair at 1:00PM. Volunteers will be performing light construction, mural painting as well as sorting books for a Book Drive that our teams have been running for the last several months.

Volunteers need to register beforehand by contacting Chad Lavimoniere at(646)515-4597

The Brooklyn event will be held at PS 213 New Lots School (580 Hegeman Ave.); their opening ceremony starts at 10:00AM and will wrap up at 3:00PM. Volunteers will be painting murals and performing light landscaping projects with community partners.

Volunteers for the East New York event need to register beforehand by contacting Alicia Adatepe 646-431-4416

Check back next week for more info on both days.

CYNY corps members on Gawker!

This weekend we were pretty surprised to see a great portrait of City Year corps members on Gawker.com! Our guys totally fit in with Gossip Girl, the Twitterati and Julia Allison.

The corps members were prepping for our One Harlem Service day when Diana Levine, a great local NYC photographer, walked up on them and captured this image. We love it, except for the untucked shirts!

City Year needs volunteers for LICense to Serve, our 3rd Annual Long Island City Community Service Day

It is that time of year! Last weekend we had our One Harlem and Bed Stuy Community Service Days. Beautiful weather and a great turnout at both.

This Saturday, May 2nd, we are having our 3rd Annual LICense to Serve Day in Long Island City, Queens. Dutch Kills Park will be the hub site for the day and the site of the opening ceremony. City Year will be working at Hour Children’s “My Mother’s House”, painting murals and playground games,as well as performing gardening around the hub site. Families are encouraged to attend and children will be able to attend a Children’s Carnival featuring games and other activities.

The opening ceremony will be at 9:30am with service projects running until 3:00PM.

Volunteers need to register prior to the event by contacting Nick Florest at(646)-247-7735