E-News: December 5, 2008

Prospect Park
E-Newsletter

December 5, 2008

In This Issue:

• Special Skating Days
• Three Sisters
• Christmas Bird Count

Thanks to this
month's sponsors:

New Year's Eve Fireworks

December 31 at Midnight
Grand Army Plaza
Start the celebrations off around 11 p.m. with entertainment and hot refreshments at Grand Army Plaza. Free!

Directions
By train: 2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza station; Q to 7th Ave. Station (Flatbush Ave.). By bus: B-41, B-71, B-69.

New Year’s fireworks and festivities are sponsored by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.

Mulchfest

Put your Christmas tree back where it belongs - on the earth! January 10 & 11, bring your holiday tree to Prospect Park, where we’ll turn it into mulch for healthy ground cover. Two locations: Third Street & Prospect Park West; Park Circle entrance at Prospect Park Southwest & Parkside Avenues. Read more >

Build Better Parks

The City of New York/ Department of Parks and Recreation is now in the process of developing a working plan for the future development of the park system and would like to hear from you. Please take some time to complete their Public Outreach Survey and help shape the park system for the 21st century.

Click here to take the survey.

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Special Skating Days
Celebrate a return to the ice with these great special events
at Wollman Rink

Special Skating Days

Half-Off Fridays!
50% off regular paid admission every Friday.
Excludes holiday weekends (12/26, 1/2, 2/20).

Skate School Exhibition & Clinic
• December 6 - 7, begins at 9:55 a.m.
Free with paid rink admission.

All Beatles music!
• Thursday, December 18, 4 - 6 p.m.

Skating Schedule
Monday   8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Tuesday   8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wednesday   8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Thursday   8:30 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday   8:30 a.m. – 10 p.m.
Saturday   10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.; 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Sunday   10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Special Holiday Dates & Hours
Dec. 24 & 25: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.
Dec. 26 & 27: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.; 7 – 10 p.m.
Dec. 28 -31: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.
Jan. 1: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.
Jan. 2 & 3: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.; 7 – 10 p.m.
Jan. 4: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; 2 – 6 p.m.

Three Sisters
December 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, & 21 at 2 p.m.
at Lefferts Historic House

Rebellious Subjects Theatre presents a translation of Anton Chekhov’s "Three Sisters" at Lefferts Historic House. Erin Gilmore directs Paul Schmidt’s distinctly American translation in the Lefferts drawing room, infusing both play and house with the zeitgeist of the American 1950s. $10 suggested donation. Seating is very limited; for reservations please email rebellioussubjects@gmail.com. Read more >

Christmas Bird Count
Saturday, December 20, 12 & 3 p.m.
at the Audubon Center at the Boathouse

Christmas Bird Count

Join a tradition over 100 years in the making! The Christmas Bird Count is a nationwide bird census that helps conservation researchers track the long-term health of bird populations. Free. Read more >

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