A Fresh Look for Tree Pits & Park Avenue South Malls

Trees are to be treasured, especially in Manhattan.  The Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership takes that role seriously, and has funded the expansion of 13 tree pits on 21st, 22nd and 24th Streets, and Park Avenue South, between 21st and 22nd Streets.  Enlarging the size of the pit allows for safer growth and better irrigation for the tree.  These pits have also received the latest fall planting of ornamental cabbage and kale, and will soon be outfitted with tree guards. 

With these newly expanded tree pits, the BID now plants and maintains 89 pits in the district, which covers over half of the BID's boundaries.  Over the next two planting cycles, the spring and fall of 2013, the BID intends to make sure every remaining tree in the district has an adequate guard, and will provide the plantings and maintenance unless the respective property owner is actively performing these duties.

In addition to protecting the district's trees and improving the sidewalk aesthetic, the BID  recently installed its fall planting of the Park Avenue South median malls between 21st and 28th Streets.  These plantings - ornamental cabbage and kale - match the tree pits and also the plantings in the Flatiron Public Plazas.

When you're out and about enjoying the fall season, take some time to appreciate all of the beautiful plantings throughout the Flatiron district!

Intercity Bus Stops Workshop

On Thursday, November 1st, the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a community workshop to help determine the criteria in evaluating proposed intercity bus stops.  This forum will allow interested individuals to take an active role in helping the DOT mark out bus stop locations. 

The event will take place from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Hotel Pennsylvania's Gold Ballroom, 401 7th Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd Streets.

For further information or questions, contact Patrick Jordan at (212) 799-8803, or email buses@zetlin.com.

To celebrate the brand's first birthday and help kick off the festive holiday shopping season, C. Wonder has opened a pop-up store in the Flatiron district. This location, with their pink signature scooter as part of its decor, specializes in great gifts and stocking stuffers as well as trendy cuff bracelets, color block totes, monogrammed decorative accents for the home and more.

C. Wonder is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

C. Wonder, 155 Fifth Avenue, between 21st and 22nd Streets, (212) 677-3768, www.cwonder.com 

With the idyllic backdrop of New York City's spectacular skyline, more than 250 attendees gathered at 230 FIFTH's 27th Street Penthouse and Rooftop Garden on October 17th for the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership's annual networking event that honors the BID's community efforts and members of this vibrant neighborhood.

"This was our most successful and highest-attended CFP event since our inception in 2006," says Jennifer Brown, Executive Director of the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership about the evening's three-hour festivities that also featured top-shelf bar service and hors d'oeuvres. 

BID Executive Director Jennifer Brown   with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney

Notable guests included Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of the 14th District, which covers Manhattan's East Side and Western Queens, and Emmy Award-winning NBC newsman and Flatiron resident Lester Holt, who once told the BID that his favorite thing about the district is "the architecture -- the best and most interesting buildings in the city."