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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We head to the weekend with several updates from the St. Vartan Park community, from a new water feature in the park to advocacy to keep the AMC Kips Bay movie theater. mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

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BREAKING 💙 Watershed Moment, Big Fix, AMC Theater, Water Club Site, More

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're a community. On behalf of MECA, some remarks today at AMC Kips Bay about a collective effort to save the only movie theater in E. Midtown before medical takes over the space. Health screenings, movie screenings can co-exist in our community. Thanks to host @ERIDNYC and our elected officials.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Happy first day of school in the city! Some news from the St. Vartan Park community in yesterday's edition of the Conservancy newsletter: mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

St. Vartan Park Conservancy's latest on the AMC Kips Bay 15 drama. Is the theater's wrap date January 4? The community wants answers. www.instagram.com/p/Dc881XtEa4Y/

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

St. Vartan Park upgrades, a promising development on the park's handball-pickleball courts, breaking news on the the Kips Bay AMC movie theater saga, and other Kips Bay-Murray Hill community stories are in today's issue of our complimentary newsletter.

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BREAKING: Park Grass, Gloria Steinem, Kips Bay AMC Drama, Swing Zone, Pickleball, Murray Hill Essay, More

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Time for more answers. The Our Town story: bit.ly/4d2tNTV

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Feeling the heat? We kick off today's issue of our community newsletter with an in-depth study of cooling trees in St. Vartan Park and surrounding communities. mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

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NEWS 🌳 Throwing Shade, Champions, Copper Suit, Shaboozey, Go Fish, More

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Our latest complimentary community newsletter dropped to subscribers today with fresh news on several fronts, including advocacy to thwart a plan that has the western block of St. Vartan Park on the chopping block. mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

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NEWS: Surprise Guest, Hands Off the Park, Second Avenue Moves, More

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The latest issue of the St. Vartan Park Conservancy complimentary newsletter was emailed to subscribers yesterday. Here 'tis. mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

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NEWS: Have a Seat, $1 Million on Hold, "Staggering" Decline, Meals, More

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Enjoy some of the scenes from St. Vartan Park Conservancy's community appreciation at this year’s Park Avenue Day. youtu.be/pkV-Jfb1YHM?...

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | Park Avenue Day 2026

YouTube video by Manhattan East Community Association (MECA)

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

stvartanpark.org/welfare Dropping some key history of animal welfare in the Murray Hill-Kips Bay community, in this new original story. Jumping ahead a few decades, nice to know NYC Council in March created Animal Welfare Caucus, chaired by Harvey Epstein with support from Speaker Julie Menin.

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Animal Welfare Transformation in the Park's Murray Hill-Kips Bay Community — St. Vartan Park Conservancy

An original St. Vartan Park Conservancy story of how the the park's greater community transformed from city-mandated dog killings to national animal-welfare leader during the late 19th and early 20th...

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Our fourth anniversary, a free May 16 Conservancy take-home plant experience on Park Avenue, use of the St. Vartan Park athletic field, and a sustainability addition to the park playground are among the items in our latest complimentary newsletter, out to subscribers on Saturday.

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NEWS: Free Green, Conservancy Turns 4, Playground Stormwater Plans, More

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Views today in the St. Vartan Park garden included the year's first daffodil flower (many more to come) and the first star magnolias starting to open.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Today, the St. Vartan Park garden offered a first sign of spring — buds ready to open on the star magnolia that St. Vartan Park Conservancy added to the north side of the garden in May 2023. Last year, the buds blossomed by late March.⁣

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Today's special St. Vartan Park Conservancy newsletter opens with the news that the park's playground transformation is set to start in two weeks. mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

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NEWS: March 16 Set for St. Vartan Park Playground Reconstruction Start

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The reconstruction of the St. Vartan Park playground by NYC Parks is set to start next month as the project's procurement stage has been completed. ⁣⁣ A rendering of the future playground and more information on the reconstruction appears at stvartanpark.org'playground.

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A chance and magical St. Vartan Park garden view I took in yesterday — of two acquaintances who live near the park celebrating their engagement! The marriage proposal had just taken place nearby. Here's to a wonderful life together.

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Engagement on New York needs today at SOMOS conference in Puerto Rico, from financial empowerment to a panel on parks and environmental issues with NYC Parks Commissioner Iris Rodriguez-Rosa, Bronx Parks Commissioner Jessenia Aponten and NYC Council parks committee chair Shekar Krishnan.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Today, St. Vsartan park Conservancy and local Cub Scout Pack 422 continued their alliance with an upkeep session in and around the park garden that earned each Scout a Park Cleanup badge. ⁣Activiites included leaf management, composting, park beautification, creation of take-home basil plants, more.

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

After years as a parking lot, East River at 34th Street near St. Vartan park will soon be transformed into a public park. We gathered with NYC Parks Manhattan Commissioner Tricia Shimamura, fellow Manhattan Community Board 6 members, other community leaders to look to a better everyday waterfront.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Yesterday, MECA’s free basketball nets program Swish You Were Here had a milestone day at Peter’s Field, here with @kevokeefe.bsky.social (at rim), park neighbor Daniel Bernstein and appreciative youngsters. Learn more in the next issue of our newsletter (subscribe: stvartanpark.org/join).

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

On this Indigenous Peoples' Day, we recognize the area's indigenous Lenape, as I did on behalf of Manhattan East Community Association at Murray Hill Neighborhood Association's celebration of the 20th anniversary of 88 neighborhood structures placed in the National Register of Historic Places. ⁣

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

In 1984, President Carter was here on E. 6th Street to help restore Mascot Flats, his first project for @habitat for Humanity, an org. my dad volunteered with to help build houses. Today on World Habitat Day, a joy to stand with CEO Jonathan Reckford and many other for Jimmy Carter Way co-naming.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Today to further St. Vartan Park garden beautification, sustainability, safety and upkeep, garden steward St. Vartan Park Conservancy hosted @TIAA employees. TIAA and the Conservancy provided extensive mulching, weeding, composting, pruning and other enhancements

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Yesterday, St. Vartan Cathedral and the Conservancy co-hosted their first joint community program—an engaging morning cathedral history session and park beautification. ⁣Thanks to all, incluidiong the church's vicar Davit Karamyan, who led the tour and helped plant many daffodil bulbs.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Tomorrow morning, St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral and St. Vartan Park Conservancy team up to host a complimentary Cathedral history tour and volunteer park beautification session. No registration is required. Details: stvartanpark.org/events

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Today in St. Vartan Park, @sengonzalezny.bsky.social presented the New York State Senate 2025 Commendation Award to Conservancy founder @kevokeefe.bsky.social. . Thanks to all behind the Conservancy mission to "act on behalf of the public to improve St. Vartan Park and its surrounding community."

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Today, four St. Vartan Park tree stumps were removed as we look to Monday's planting of more than a dozen trees at the park. Join us as a volunteer on Monday after a special 9 a.m. kickoff at the park garden with remarks from @sengonzalezny.bsky.social and others.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This morning at Union Square, St. Vartan Park Conservancy's @kevokeefe.bsky.social received 275 daffodil bulbs plus hundreds of native-flower seeds to plant around St. Vartan Park this fall — part of @ny4p.bsky.social's annual Daffodil Project, a living memorial to the victims of 9/11 and COVID-19.

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Grand opening and tour last night of Solar One's Environmental Education Center at Stuyvesant Cove Park, to host K-12 STEM education and teacher development programming and serve as a sustainable event venue. Solar powered and flood resistant.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Happy first day of school in the city! St. Vartan Park Conservancy, which launched in 2022 with students from P.S. 281 located across the street from the park garden, appreciates the ideas suggested by schoolchildren, including park reading activities, that have become reality.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

We recognize U.S. Congressman Jerry Nadler's valuable support of our community and his long public service as news breaks that he will retire from office next year after nearly three dozen years in Congress.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Views today during a work session in the St. Vartan Park garden, including of our first recorded park sighting of an Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

In recognition of Women's Equality Day today, we share an original story about how Murray Hill advanced the women's suffrage movement, published in this issue of our newsletter. mailchi.mp/stvartanpark...

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Earth and Women Activism, First 🌻🥀, Park Access, Murray Hill Creatures, More

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Fun community unity at the 17th Precinct Community Council's National Night Out Against Crime at Turtle Bay’s Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza—including at the St. Vartan Park Conservancy station where visitors of all generations seeded take-home basil plants and participated in other engaging activities.

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St. Vartan Park Conservancy | MECA @stvartanpark.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Back by popular community demand, St. Vartan Park Conservancy tonight will host a free seeding activity with a take-home basil plant. The occasion is the annual National Night Out Against Crime event at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza on 49th Street between First and Second Avenues.

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Kevin O'Keefe @kevokeefe.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Appreciation today for Chris Marte and Grauven Olivares, co-hosts at P.S. 142 of the first Dominican Heritage Celebration.

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