Who We Are NYCLeaves is a volunteer-run, neighborhood-based coalition of gardeners and greening partners who are harvesting residential leaves for compost this fall. Questions, comments, tools? Email compost@nycleaves.org
Thanks to Our Partners GREEN THUMB, north brooklyn compost project, SOLAR ONE, flatbush gardener, SUSTAINABLE FLATBUSH, neighborhood open space coalition, EAST NEW YORK FARMS, bk farmyards, 6/15 GREEN, brooklyn green team, EARTH MATTER NY, green edge nyc, BROOKLYN BASED, park slope food coop, CENYC, green guerillas, BUILD IT GREEN NYC, architecture for humanity ny, BBG, lower east side ecology center, QBG, and all staff of the nyc compost project!
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The City will compost your Christmas trees if you leave them on the curb, but this weekend, many local parks will mulch them, and some will give you mulch to take home!
 The Brooklyn Food Coalition proposes linking Christmas Tree Recycling with Fall Leaf Recycling. No, not by reconstructing a holiday tree from fallen maple leaves, though that’s sorta cool too. We’re talkin’ law.
If you want the city to compost leaves left on your curb just as they do with the trees they pick up, you can help! Find out more here and send your thoughts to brooklynfoodjustice (at) gmail (dot) com.
Feeling crafty? Cut five big “leaves” from cardboard, punch a hole atop each leaf to thread twine through & around the tree, write one word on each leaf: BRING. BACK. FALL. LEAF. COLLECTION. You always knew trees could talk…
The peak of leaf season has passed, but after turning our hands and hearts to family and friends for the holidays, we’re back!
 wheel of compost fortune On the agenda is, first and foremost, MUCH gratitude to all participants and supporters who made Project LeafDrop a success! Because of your efforts, at least seven tons of fallen leaves will be composted and returned to the soil of NYC community gardens and tree beds.
There’s still work to be done, so gracious gardeners, please remember to send your surveys and petitions to Jess and Beth. You can scan them in an email to compost (at) nycleaves (dot) org or just simply email/call us for an alternate plan.
Thanks as well to a few new folks who swept in and brought even more light to our plight:
 Brad Lander: Represent! Brad Lander, civic leader and newly elected Council Member, who brought a carload of leaves to 6/15 Green. Keep composting, Brad!
Derek Denckla for depicting our community gardeners in all their leafy glory on his site, the Greenest.
Jennifer Brookland and Mike Mclaughlin for the timely Daily News article on Project LeafDrop in East New York.
And thanks especially to David Buckel from the Brooklyn Food Coalition, who is now taking the lead on leaf compost advocacy in New York City. The latest news is this: If you have a story to share – even just a few paragraphs – about city-sponsored compost initiatives affecting the health and sustainability of your community, please send an email to brooklynfoodjustice (at) gmail (dot) com. The more truth we have to tell, the stronger the case for compost will be!
Wishing you a joyous and healthy new year,
NYCLeaves
The big LeafDrop weekend went great — totals are starting to roll in, and we’ll let you know soon how many tons our coalition of gardens accepted. But some gardens are still accepting leaves. See below.
For help locating the gardens, click on the correct borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens.
Accepting leaves Nov. 28
North Brooklyn Compost Project – Opposite 228 N. 12th St. in McCarren Pk 11211 (Williamsburg/Greenpoint) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Woodbine Block Association Garden – 146 Woodbine St. between Central
and Evergreen 11221 (Bushwick) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
St Mark’s Garden — 33-50 82nd St. @ 34th Avenue 11372 (Jackson Heights) 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
The Little Green Garden – 60 Elton Avenue 10451 (Morrisania/Melrose) 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
Accepting leaves Dec. 5
Woodbine Block Association Garden – 146 Woodbine St. between Central
and Evergreen 11221 (Bushwick) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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The following gardens will also accept leaves by appointment:
Friends of Brook Park: information@friendsofbrookpark.org
Morris-Jumel Community Garden: morrisjumelgarden@gmail.com
Wyckoff-Bond Garden: information tba.
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This Saturday and Sunday are the biggest days yet for Project LeafDrop. We have more gardens participating, more volunteers to weigh your contributions and more confidence that we can persuade the city to reinstate the Department of Sanitation’s leaf composting program. All we need is more leaves – YOUR leaves.
Bring your bagged leaves to the following gardens. For help locating the gardens, click on the correct borough: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens.
Accepting leaves Nov. 21
Brooklyn Bears Carlton Avenue Community Garden – 397-401 Carlton Ave.,
between Greene Ave. and Fulton St. 11238 (Ft. Greene) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Community Boerum Street Garden – 230 Boerum St., btw Bushwick and White 11206 (East Williamsburg Industrial Park) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
David Foulke Memorial Garden – 250 Bergen btw Bond and Nevins 11217
(Boerum Hill) 11 a.m.-1 p.m. This is a chipper and shredder day, too.
Eagle Street Rooftop Farms – 44 Eagle St. @ Franklin Avenue 11211 (Greenpoint) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Earth Matter Bushwick Composting Station – 9 Linden St. @ Broadway
11221 (Bushwick) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
East 4th St. Community Garden – 179 East 4th St. between Ft. Hamilton Parkway & Caton Avenue 11218 (Windsor Terrace) 10 a.m.-noon.
Flatbush CommUNITY Garden – 1550 Albemarle @ Buckingham Road 11226 (Ditmas Park) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
North Brooklyn Compost Project – Opposite 228 N. 12th St. in
McCarren Pk 11211 (Williamsburg/Greenpoint) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Prospect Heights Community Farm – 525-256 St. Marks Ave., btw Vanderbilt and Underhill (Prospect Heights) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
6/15 Green – 274 15th St. @ 6th Avenue 11215 (Park Slope) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
St. Marks Ave/ Prospect Heights Community Garden – 207 St. Marks Ave.,
btw Vanderbilt and Clermont 11238 (Prospect Heights) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Warren St. Marks Community Garden – 623 Warren St. through to 94 St.
Marks between 4th and 5th Avenues 11217 (Park Slope) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Wyckoff-Bond Garden – 189-195 Wyckoff St., at southwest corner of
intersection with Bond 11217 (Boerum Hill) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
The Little Green Garden — 60 Elton Avenue 10451 (Morrisania/Melrose) 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
St Mark’s Garden — 33-50 82nd St. @ 34th Avenue 11372 (Jackson Heights) 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Morris-Jumel Community Garden — 457 W. 162nd @ Amsterdam/St.Nicholas 10032 (Washington Heights) noon-3 p.m.
Accepting leaves Nov. 22
Brooklyn Bears Carlton Avenue Community Garden – 397-401 Carlton Ave.,
btw Greene Ave. and Fulton St. 11238 (Ft. Greene) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Eagle Street Rooftop Farms – 44 Eagle St. @ Franklin Avenue 11211 (Greenpoint) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Earth Matter Bushwick Composting Station – 9 Linden St. @ Broadway
11221 (Bushwick) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
East 4th St. Community Garden – 179 East 4th St. between Ft. Hamilton Parkway & Caton Avenue 11218 (Windsor Terrace) 10 a.m.-noon.
Prospect Heights Community Farm — 525-256 St. Marks Ave., btw Vanderbilt and
Underhill 11238 (Prospect Heights) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
6/15 Green – 274 15th St. @ 6th Avenue 11215 (Park Slope) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Spencer St. Community Garden – 230 Spencer btw DeKalb and
Willoughby 11205 (Bed-Stuy) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
St. Marks Ave/ Prospect Heights Community Garden – 207 St. Marks Ave.,
between Vanderbilt and Clermont 11238 (Prospect Heights) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Sunshine Community Garden – 99-100 McKibben, between Graham and
Manhattan 11206 (Williamsburg) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Warren St. Marks Community Garden – 623 Warren St., through street to 94 St. Marks between 4th and 5th Avenues 11217 (Park Slope) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Astoria Park/Astoria Park Alliance — 19th Street and Astoria Park South 11102 (Astoria) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Accepting leaves Nov. 28
North Brooklyn Compost Project – Opposite 228 N. 12th St. in McCarren Pk 11211 (Williamsburg/Greenpoint) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Woodbine Block Association Garden – 146 Woodbine St. between Central
and Evergreen 11221 (Bushwick) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
St Mark’s Garden — 33-50 82nd St. @ 34th Avenue 11372 (Jackson Heights) 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
The Little Green Garden – 60 Elton Avenue 10451 (Morrisania/Melrose) 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
Accepting leaves Dec. 5
Woodbine Block Association Garden – 146 Woodbine St. between Central
and Evergreen 11221 (Bushwick) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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The following gardens will also accept leaves by appointment:
Friends of Brook Park: information@friendsofbrookpark.org
Morris-Jumel Community Garden: morrisjumelgarden@gmail.com
Wyckoff-Bond Garden: information tba.
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Thank you, New Yorkers! We already have thousands of pounds of leaves beginning to turn into fabulous compost as some two dozen gardens around the city do their part to make up for the loss of the Department of Sanitation’s leaf composting program. Here are your dropoff options for this week (click here for the full listing by date, through Dec. 5). And keep those leaves coming!
*In the event of rain, please stop by your local LeafDrop site to check availability*
FOR THURSDAY, NOV. 12
In Queens (check out the map of Queens LeafDrop gardens):
St Mark’s Garden — 33-50 82nd St. @ 34th Avenue 11372; 6-8 p.m. (Jackson Heights)
In the Bronx (here’s the map):
Friends of Brook Park — East 141st Street and Brook Avenue, 10454; when open, by appointment or leave at gate (Mott Haven)
The Little Green Garden — 60 Elton Avenue 10451; 2-4 p.m. (Morrisania/Melrose)
FOR SATURDAY, NOV. 14
(all hours 11-1 p.m. unless otherwise noted)
In Brooklyn:
Brooklyn Bears Carlton Avenue Community Garden – 397-401 Carlton Ave., between Greene Ave. and Fulton St. 11238 (Ft. Greene)
North Brooklyn Compost Project – McCarren Park @ N12th st. (Williamsburg/Greenpoint)
Community Boerum Street Garden – Boerum btw Bushwick and White (East Williamsburg Industrial Park)
Earth Matter Bushwick Composting Station – 9 Linden St. @ Broadway 11221 (Bushwick)
East 4th St. Community Garden, 10 a.m.-noon – 179 East 4th St. between Ft. Hamilton Parkway & Caton Avenue 11218 (Windsor Terrace)
Hart to Hart – 108 Hart St., between Marcy and Tomkins 11206 (Bed-Stuy)
Prospect Heights Community Farm – St. Marks Ave btw Vanderbilt and Underhill (Prospect Heights)
6/15 Green – 274 15th St. @ 6th Avenue 11215 (Park Slope)
St. Marks Ave/ Prospect Heights Community Garden – 525 St. Marks Ave., between Vanderbilt and Clermont 11238 (Prospect Heights)
Sunshine Community Garden – 99-100 McKibben, between Graham and Manhattan 11206 (Williamsburg)
Warren St. Marks Community Garden – 623 Warren St. over to 94 St. Marks between 4th and 5th Avenues 11217 (Park Slope)
Wyckoff-Bond Garden – 189-195 Wyckoff St., at southwest corner of intersection with Bond 11217 (Boerum Hill)
In the Bronx:
Friends of Brook Park –when open, by appointment or drop leaves at gate — East 141st Street and Brook Avenue, 10454 (Mott Haven)
The Little Green Garden – 2-4 p.m.–60 Elton Avenue 10451 (Morrisania/Melrose)
In Queens:
St Mark’s Garden — 11 a.m.-3 p.m. — 33-50 82nd St. @ 34th Avenue 11372 (Jackson Heights)
In Manhattan:
Morris-Jumel Community Garden — noon-3 p.m. — 457 W. 162nd @ Amsterdam/St.Nicholas 10032 (Washington Heights)
FOR SUNDAY, NOV. 15
In Brooklyn:
6/15 Green – 274 15th St. @ 6th Avenue 11215 (Park Slope)
St. Marks Ave/ Prospect Heights Community Garden – 525 St. Marks Ave., between Vanderbilt and Clermont 11238 (Prospect Heights)
Woodbine Block Association Garden – 146 Woodbine St. between Central and Evergreen 11221 (Bushwick)
In the Bronx:
Friends of Brook Park –when open, by appointment, or drop leaves at gate — East 141st Street and Brook Avenue, 10454 (Mott Haven)
In Queens:
Astoria Park/Astoria Park Alliance –19th Street and Astoria Park South 11102 (Astoria)
To repeat: Last year, our NYC Council representatives cut the collection and compost of residential leaves out of the city’s budget.
So we – community gardeners, neighborhood associations, and concerned residents – are uniting to harvest and compost fallen leaves, and to document our efforts. We want to keep the compostables out of landfills and persuade the City Council and the Mayor to reinstate the Department of Sanitation’s compost project.
Saturday, Nov. 7, was our first day of collection — one garden reported getting almost 600 pounds!
Join the LeafDrop party! Bring your leaves to these gardens on Sunday, Nov. 8.
Click on borough titles for maps!
BROOKLYN
Brooklyn Bears Carlton Avenue Community Garden – 397-401 Carlton Ave., between Greene Ave. and Fulton St. 11238 (Ft. Greene)
Earth Matter Bushwick Composting Station – 9 Linden St. @ Broadway 11221 (Bushwick)
East 4th St. Community Garden – 179 East 4th St. between Ft. Hamilton Parkway & Caton Avenue 11218 (Windsor Terrace)
Flatbush CommUNITY Garden – 1550 Albemarle @ Buckingham Road 11226 (Ditmas Park)
Prospect Heights Community Farm – St. Marks Ave btw Vanderbilt and Underhill (Prospect Heights)
6/15 Green – 274 15th St. @ 6th Avenue 11215 (Park Slope)
St. Marks Ave/ Prospect Heights Community Garden – 525 St. Marks Ave., between Vanderbilt and Clermont 11238 (Prospect Heights)
Spencer St. Community Garden – 230 Spencer between DeKalb and Willoughby 11205 (Bed-Stuy)
THE BRONX
 Full-screenFriends of Brook Park– East 141st Street and Brook Avenue, 10454 (Mott Haven)
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QUEENS
Astoria Park/Astoria Park Alliance — 19th Street and Astoria Park South 11102 (Astoria)
Two Coves Community Garden
Intersection of Astoria Blvd, 8th St., 30th Ave/Main Ave. 11102 (Hunter’s Point)
Last year, our NYC Council representatives cut the collection and compost of residential leaves out of the city’s budget.
So we – community gardeners, neighborhood associations, and concerned residents – are uniting to harvest and compost fallen leaves, and to document our efforts. We want to keep the compostables out of landfills and persuade the City Council and the Mayor to resinstate the Department of Sanitation’s compost project.
Join the LeafDrop party! Bring your leaves to these gardens on Saturday.
Click on borough titles for maps!
QUEENS
Astoria Park (19th st @ Astoria Park South) 11am-1pm
St. Marks Garden in Jackson Heights (34th Ave @ 81st/82nd) 11am-3pm
MANHATTAN
Clinton Community Garden in Hell’s Kitchen (W 48th st @ 9th/10th aves) 11am-1pm
Morris-Jumel Community Garden in Washington Heights (W 162nd @ Amsterdam/St.Nick) 12-3pm
THE BRONX
Friends of Brook Park in South South Bronx (E141 @ Brook Ave) When open or by appt.
The Little Green Garden in Morrisania (Elton Ave @ E160th) 2-4pm
BROOKLYN
Community Boerum Street Garden in East Williamsburg (Boerum @ White/Bushwick) 11am-1pm
Earth Matter Bushwick Composting Station (Linden @ Broadway) 11am-1pm
East New York Farms’ UCC Youth Garden (New Lots Ave @ Schenck) 9am-3pm
Hart to Hart in Bed-Stuy (Hart St @ Marcy/Tomkins) 11am-1pm
Prospect Heights Community Farm (St. Marks Ave @ Vanderbilt/Underhill) 11am-1pm
Red Shed Garden in Williamsburg (Skillman @Kingsland) 11am-1pm
6/15 Green: A Community Garden in Park Slope (6th Ave @ 15th St) 11am-1pm
St. Marks Ave / Prospect Heights Community Garden (St. Marks Ave @ Vanderbilt/Carlton)
If you or friends in Queens can bring browns to greens, please know that you can bring leaves tonight (and every Thursday through Nov.19 from 6-8pm) to St. Marks Garden in Jackson Heights – 34th ave. btw 81st/ 81st streets. Thank you, Lenny! More updates on the way…
As of November 3rd, we’re counting 18 sites in Brooklyn, two in the Bronx, two in Manhattan, and three in Queens as LeafDrop sites this fall! In addition, in the event of an overflow of leaves at any garden, we now have the gracious support of the Council on the Environment of NYC as well as bk farmyards, Vokashi, and the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition… so if your garden is on the fence about accepting leaves, you may be relieved to know that any leaves you can’t store will be transported to places where they can be composted. Maps of participating gardens for each borough are in the works, but please see our updated Borough Resources page in the meantime for a list of both participating gardens and allies.
And thanks to Solar One, Brooklyn Green Team, and Green Thumb for major shout-outs on their websites!
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The Brooklyn Food Coalition proposes linking Christmas Tree Recycling with Fall Leaf Recycling. No, not by reconstructing a holiday tree from fallen maple leaves, though that’s sorta cool too. We’re talkin’ law.
