Recycle your electronic waste this weekend at Rosemary’s Playground.
On Saturday, January 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., State Senator Joe Addabbo is teaming up with Friends of Rosemary’s Playground, the Parks Department and Lower East Side Ecology Center for the event, rain or shine.
Accepted electronics include:
Working and non-working computers
Monitors
Printers
Scanners
Keyboard
Mice (the computer kind!)
Cables
Televisions
VCRs
DVD players
Phones
Audio/visual equipment
Cell phones
PDAs
Rosemary’s Playground is located on Fairview Avenue between Woodbine and Madison streets.
The Ridgewood Reservoir got a new year’s present: additional environmental protections.
Before the calendar flipped to 2019, the state Department of Environmental Conservation designed the reservoir as a Class I freshwater wetland, according to NYC H2O.
That designation means all three basins of the reservoir bordering Brooklyn and Queens will be “permanently protected as a natural area.”
According to NYC H2O, wetlands are some of the most productive natural ecosystems. They’re protected by the federal Clean Water Act of 1972, and New York’s Freshwater Protection Act of 1975.
The state DEC designates Class 1 protections to a waterbody only when threatened and endangered species have been observed on site.
NYC H2O says the following are listed as threatened/endangered: