Friends of Crocheron & John Golden Park

Our organization works alongside NYC Parks to steward Crocheron & John Golden Park. The 62 acre park, located in Bayside, Queens, was largely build during the New Deal, part of the expansive work by Robert Moses. Winding paths connect 7 ballfields, a playground, tennis and pickleball courts, twin gazebos, and a pond that empties into Little Neck Bay, part of the Long Island Sound estuary. 

Friends of Crocheron is a volunteer run nonprofit organization that interacts with the community in a number of ways. Our current focus is to advocate for the City to develop infrastructure to mitigation damage from climate change, including the rebuild of a path destroyed by Ida and the rehabilitation of the pond, both were greatly damaged in 2021 by Ida. We successfully advocated for 7 million in capital funding and petition to stop privatization of tennis courts, we have also partnered with NYC Parks to become a Level I certified arboretum with two dozen multilingual tree tags. We have hosted or brought over 100 events since August 2020, events include clean-ups, bird watching with Queens County Bird Club, other larger events with instructors, like our International Yoga Day, and coordinate with the Urban Park Rangers to co-host events with us as well. While Oaks Crocheron & John Golden Oark is not an Olmsted landscape, the friends group promotes the Olmsted principles of stewardship and access.