Sunnyside Gardens Park to Undergo Makeover

Sunnyside Gardens Park will undergo a major revamp next month as long-awaited plans to replace the basketball courts, to put down new grass and to fix the drainage system are scheduled to begin in January.
The process will take two years to complete and is going to be broken down into two phases. For 2010, the goal [...]

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Barnett Ave. No longer a Dangerous Eyesore

Barnett Ave, historically a dangerous two-way street punctuated by trash and weeds, has been cleared of waste and converted into a one-way street with a sidewalk.
Many Sunnyside residents have been fighting for years to have the Avenue cleaned up, and have been working with the sanitation department, Dept. of Transportation and Community Board to bring [...]

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Sunnyside Garden’s couple showcase home in NY Times

NY TIMES REAL ESTATE 
Accessorized With Stroller and Rake
JULIE SIMONSON, a research pharmacist whose flat accent reveals her Chicago-area roots, grew up in a forest. Her childhood home was surrounded as far as the eye could see by towering deciduous trees whose names and characteristics she knew so well that she could identify virtually every [...]

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Graffiti hits Tree in Gardens

Graffiti bandits have sprayed a tree on 44th Street in the Gardens with purple paint.
The oak tree is not in any danger, but it shows that some of these vandals will not stop at anything. While the entire area is targeted by these bandits, this is the first time we have seen a tree targeted.

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Memorial Day Fairs

On Saturday there were two fairs in Sunnyside.  One was in the Gardens and the other on Greenpoint Ave.  One was very wholesome and the other, well, was filled with women in skimpy tank tops.
The one in the Gardens was filled with face-painters, BBQs, and delicious baked goods. Kids were playing games and it reminded me of something out of Little House [...]

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Happy Memorial Day

Memorial Day…from Sunnyside Gardens

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