Bay Ridge
Clean up, clean up
Cheers to Pastor Nathan Tubbs and Trey Eitel and all the other volunteers who helped to spiff up our shoreline for the sixth annual City Uprising community service initiative from June 29 to July 3.
The green-thumbed do-gooders — including seniors and students from across the borough, and three churches in Alabama and Georgia — helped the Shore Road Parks Conservancy clean and maintain a stretch of Shore Road Park near 97th Street and Shore Road, clearing overgrown hillsides, collecting litter, cleaning park bathrooms, and weeding flower beds.
It was a case of neighbors helping neighbors, said the pastor.
“Knowing that the Parks Department has limited resources, we enjoy the opportunity to serve the community by helping to prepare our park space for the summer,” he said. “We simply want to show our neighbors that we are not just a church in the community, but a church for the community.”
Standing O is sending a loud shout-out to the vollies for their generosity of spirit and elbow grease.
Cornerstone Church at Bay Ridge at the Gregory Hotel [8315 Fourth Ave. at 83rd Street in Bay Ridge, (347) 985–0860].