Spring into Service 2025
April 26, 10:00 AM
On Saturday April 26, please join the BHA for our annual Spring into Service! We are running a donation drive as well as partnering with many local organizations for a variety of hand-on projects, many in honor of Earth Week. Spring into Service is a great way to meet your neighbors while making a difference in our community.
P.S. Did you know that April 26th is also Brooklyn Org’s Annual Volunteer Day? If you aren’t able to join one of our events, consider joining one of theirs across our beloved borough. Together we can all make Brooklyn an even brighter place.
DONATION DRIVE FOR BROOKLYN BOOK BODEGA, LITTLE ESSENTIALS AND THREE LOCAL FOOD PANTRIES
10am-2pm | Pierrepont Playground
Book Donation Drive:
Brooklyn Book Bodega aims to increase the number of 100+ book homes for children and teens in NYC. Brooklyn Book Bodega provides access to and ownership of books, builds community, and creates a passion for learning through free events and literacy-based community programming.
Donations accepted: gently used and new books (appropriate for 0-18 year olds only please) including foreign language, dual language and nonfiction books.
Donations NOT accepted: textbooks, encyclopedias, books for adult readers, religious or holiday books. Please do not bring an y books that are written in or have missing pages.
Can’t bring your books on Saturday? You can also donate a book to the Brooklyn Book Bodega at Books are Magic on Montague Street.
Baby Supplies Drive
Little Essentials offers at-risk
families living in poverty urgently needed children’s supplies and parenting education to promote the health, well-being, and safety of their children.
Donations accepted: new or gently-used clean children’s clothing and toys (appropriate for up to 5 year olds), diapers, strollers, blankets and more. Please read their donation guidelines before bringing your items.
They cannot accept:
- Car seats that do not have a detachable base
- Nursing pillows and cover ups
- Baby food and formula
- Breast pumps
- High chairs and booster chairs
- Cribs, bedding, etc
- Exersaucers, swings, walkers
- Furniture (no bassinets please!)
Food Pantry Drive:
We are accepting non-perishable food donations for food pantries run by 3 local churches (St. Ann & Holy Trinity, First Presbyterian, St Charles Borromeo). Please ensure items are unopened and not expired.
Pet Food Drive:
Brooklyn Cat Cafe will be collecting dog and cat food and treats. Items can be brought directly to them at 76 Montague Street. Please ensure all dry food and treats must be unopened and not expired.
If you would like to volunteer to help us sort and organize the donations, as well as help pack and deliver the food pantry items that afternoon, please email us at info@thebha.org
HARRY CHAPIN PARK TLC
10m-12pm| Harry Chapin Playground (Columbia Heights @ Middagh Street)
This sweet playground needs some TLC. Bring your friends, family, and neighbors for a fun and fulfilling day of cleaning up litter, beautifying the park, and giving back to nature at our local community playground. Supplies like gloves and trash bags will be provided, but feel free to bring your own if you’d like. Stay after the cleanup for coffee, treats, and a chance to meet your neighbors! Sign up here.
DOG PARK CLEAN UP
9am-1pm | Hillside Dog Park, Columbia Heights
Calling all dog lovers! Join the Friends of Hillside to support a clean-up effort at the dog park. No sign-up needed, just drop by to spread some wood chips, help care for trees and remove trash. Dogs (of course) are welcome!
EARTH WEEK TREE CARE
10am-12pm | meet at the corner of Middagh and Willow Place
Join us for a couple hours of tree bed maintenance to improve the tree canopy in Brooklyn Heights. We will be cleaning any refuse out of tree beds, weeding, cultivating soil to break up compaction, and adding mulch. This event is great for people of all ages. Please wear comfortable clothes appropriate for the weather and close toed shoes. Sign Up
Photo: Mary Frost, Daily Eagle
Spruce up PS8
12pm-4pm | 37 Hicks Street
It’s spring cleaning time at PS8! We will be cleaning out and sprucing up the nurse’s office, including fresh paint on the walls and some simple furniture assembly. We will also be helping to organize and entire classroom of books and supplies, along with some other simple projects on the To-Do list.
CADMAN PARK CLEAN UP AND MULCH
10am-12pm |Meet by the circular planter at Juneteenth Grove
Bring the family and join the Cadman Park Conservancy for a couple hour of cleaning and mulching to get this park ready for some spring enjoyment. Glove and supplies will be provided.
EWASTE COLLECTION
Help the BHA responsibly dispose of electronic waste. We recently cleaned out our office space and have a few cart fulls of e-waste to be brought to Brooklyn Bridge Park’s E-waste collection at Emily Warren Roebling Plaza between 10am-12pm. Please email us at info@thebha.org if you have a cart and can pick up these items and bring them to the drop off location.