The project is intended as a way for community members to share art, photos or poetry and collectively process the loss of the park as it was.
Contributors will receive a copy of the final zine — either by mail or in person — as part of this exchange of creative work and memory.
The zine is the idea of Ella Parker, who describes herself as a "Lower East Side resident and fellow lover of the Park."
Parker said she began creating art herself as a way to process the park's closure and wanted to extend the opportunity to others.
"I was hoping there might be some kind of opportunity to share with others, but hadn't seen anything … so I thought I should make it happen myself, especially once the track's closure date was announced," she said.
Anyone interested in contributing can email her here.
The "phased work operations" in East River Park commenced in November 2021, in Project Area 1, located between Montgomery Street and 15th Street. Workers have been burying the park under fill and cutting down hundreds of trees as part of the billion-dollar-plus ESCR. They are elevating the land 8 to 10 feet above sea level to protect the area from future storm surges.
