2024 Report for Monitor Square Park

Monitor Square Park

Neighborhood:

West River

Type of Site:

Park Friends

Address:

1523 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, New Haven, CT, 06511
View Greenspace Group Page

Coordinates for Map

POINT (-72.9464612 41.3121234)

Year

2024

Number of volunteers

4

Total volunteer hours

38

Number of events

6

Number of trees planted

2

Enter more details about trees planted

1 Crabapple and 1 Kentucky Coffeetree

Number of shrubs planted

0

Number of perennials planted

0

Yards compost spread

0.00

Yards mulch spread

7.50

Summary

Monitor Square Park is a longstanding group and they’ve truly transformed the park over their many years of restoration and stewardship. The park is triangular in shape located between Chapel Street–Winthrop Avenue and Derby Avenue, which is an inviting, nice spot for neighbors to walk their dogs and enjoy beautiful flower gardens. This is the 15th year of the greenspace program with URI. John and Robin are such dedicated volunteers. This summer they continued to steward the park by watering, weeding, rebuilding donuts around trees planted in the past every Saturday from 8-10 am. John usually did watering, trash picking, mulching, rebuilding donuts around the trees whereas Robin dedicated herself to weed the garden and mulch it. In addition to stewardship, they planted two trees (1 Crabapple and 1 Kentucky Coffee tree) with John’s kids.