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Introducing: Project Clean Streets
With support of neighborhood businesses, the NLNA is excited to announce Project Clean Streets. The focus of the project is to help alleiviate our neighborhood litter and trash problems. This summer, we hired a small crew to sweep…
Read More »Regarding this Year’s 2nd Street Festival and Cleanup
This was another huge success, and we thank the local businesses who organized it, the Philadelphia Folksong Society, and all the vendors and NLNA volunteers. The NLNA is aware that 2nd St. was not fully cleaned up…
Read More »Check out Rain Check! – Application Deadline June 1
Rain Check is a Philadelphia Water Department program that provides residents with resources to manage stormwater and beautify their homes. Through the program, PWD helps people pay for landscape improvements such as rain gardens or downspout planters…
Read More »CSA Farm Share Returns to NoLibs – Sign Up Now!
Regular food deliveries May through October! Neighborhood Foods, a West Philly based urban farm, is partnering with NL’s own Liberty Lands and Cafe Chismosa to hold a 2013 farmers market and CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Customers pay…
Read More »Weeders Club at Madison Memorial Park this Saturday
This week only — Weeder’s Club is wandering down to Madison Memorial park (you know, Doughboy park at 2nd and Spring Garden) to give it a little help. We have a wonderful new neighbor and volunteer who’s…
Read More »Love Your Park (annual spring work/play day) – this Saturday!
9:00am until 2:00pm this Saturday, May 11 Come join us at Liberty Lands for this biannual effort in parks across the city of Philadelphia. Sign in at the picnic tables by the toddler lot.
Read More »Earth Day Spring Tree Planting, Sunday, April 21!
Join your neighbors in our Earth Day Spring Tree Planting, Sunday, April 21 at 10 am! We will be planting 12 (bare root) street trees all over Northern Liberties and a variety of plants at Madison Memorial Park (aka Dough Boy…
Read More »Northern Liberties Clean-Up on Sat, April 13
9am to 1pm – Meet up and lunch will be held at Liberty Lands Join your fellow neighbors, along with students and teachers from our own, award-winning Bodine High School on Saturday, April 13, as part of Philly’s…
Read More »NLNA General Meeting TONIGHT! – Thursday, Feb 28
Join us for the February NLNA General Membership meeting. 7pm at the Northern Liberties Community Center – 3rd & Fairmount – as always! This Month’s Agenda Streets Dept. on Laurel St. direction-change proposal DRWC on Spring Garden…
Read More »TreeCycle Your Christmas Tree with the NLNA This Saturday – January 5 – Volunteers Needed
Volunteers Needed to Fill 1 or 2 hour shifts this Saturday (Jan 5) from 10am to 4pm! (at Liberty Lands) Tasks include: • collecting donations • off-loading trees • hanging out We have help with the actual…
Read More »25 New Trees Planted on Sunday. Big Thanks To All Who Volunteered and Donated Lunch!
Community Fall Tree Planting Sunday, Nov 11 A total of 25 trees were planted around the Northern Liberties and at the Doughboy Park (2nd & Spring Garden) on Sunday by volunteer neighbors led by NLNA Board Member,…
Read More »E-Waste Recycling Returns Sep 29th – 10am-2pm
Bring all your old electronics to the NLNA Community Center! Got a bunch of old TVs, printers, and electronics lying around and don’t know how to properly dispose of them? You won’t have to hold onto them…
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