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Community Events Calendar – The Havre Daily News
Community Events Calendar The Havre Daily News
Step Inside A World Of 1000+ Boisterous Birds At The Bronx Zoo
We’ve all taken a stroll through the Bronx Zoo’s Butterfly Garden, where we’ve come face to face with over a dozen species of butterflies fluttering through a greenhouse, but would you do the same if the room was instead filled with 1000+ colorful budgies?
If you answered yes, then good news–now you can! And, if you answered no, allow us to potentially change your mind.
This Memorial Day Weekend the Bronx Zoo is bringing us its newest immersive experience–Budgie Landing.
Budgie Landing allows zoo guests to walk through a habitat filled with more than 1000 colorful budgies (or budgerigars if you’d like to get technical). The small, boisterous parrots will fly freely through the exhibit, boasting beautiful displays of their colorful feathers and, likely, chirping up a storm.
Guests will have the opportunity to feed the birds from a complementary handheld seed stick, and those lucky enough to get a budgie to nibble will receive an unforgettable up-close interaction.
Let’s be real, how often can you say you’ve come face to face with a budgie?!
Though budgies’ natural coloration is green with white and black accents, you’ll see budgies sporting a wide range of colors at Budgie Landing. This is due to the popularity of budgies as pets, which has inspired the breeding of many colors including blue, grey, white, yellow, and combinations of each.
And, being Budgie Landing was designed to replicate the Australian open woodlands and grasslands of their native range which spans the Australian continent, you’ll feel like you’re literally right at home–well, right at their home–with these boisterous birds.
Budgie Landing is a seasonal exhibit which opens Saturday, May 27 and will be open through October. The exhibit requires a ticket separate from park admission and is $5 per person ($3 per person for members).
Be sure to snag yourself a Bronx Zoo Total Experience Ticket for unlimited access to premium rides and attractions and guaranteed skip-the-line benefits the day of your visit!
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The Arches, a new public park, opens beneath the Brooklyn Bridge
Word of any new outdoor space in New York City is always a reason to cheer, especially when the digs are as iconic as this: just in time for its 140th birthday, the Brooklyn Bridge will welcome The Arches, a recreational space and community gathering spot set right beneath the landmark in Chinatown, located at the intersection of Rose Street and Avenue of the Finest.
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Announced by Mayor Eric Adams as well as community advocates of Gotham Park and Tony Hawk’s The Skatepark Project, the grand opening of The Arches included the restoration of the iconic Brooklyn Banks skatepark, which has been closed to the public for more than a decade. Along with the skatepark—whose nine-stair feature was broken in by VANS skateboarders like Ben Kadow, Dick Rizzo and Beatrice Domond during the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, May 24—the new public space will also include outdoor recreations like pickleball, basketball and shuffleboard courts.
“Today marks the start of something truly great. By providing access to safe, outdoor recreation, The Arches will bring people of all backgrounds together, fostering community bonds for local New Yorkers,” said Benjamin Anderson Bashein, Executive Director of The Skatepark Project. “Skateboarding is a sport that supports growth and creativity, and the Brooklyn Banks is a historic place where legendary skateboarders have found community and honed their craft. The Skatepark Project and our partners at VANS Skateboarding are proud to support a new chapter in NYC skateboarding history and help the iconic skate spot’s legacy live on in the next generation of athletes. It’s an honor to work alongside City Hall, Gotham Park and so many others to bring this vision to life.”
Situated in a low-income neighborhood with majority BIPOC residents, one hit significantly hard by the health and socioeconomic impact of COVID-19, the new park is aimed at fostering community and boosting local business in the area.
“I know that what we can do is going to impact this city for years to come,” Mayor of New York City Eric Adams said during Wednesday’s grand opening. “Everyone needs open space – we witnessed that during COVID, how people needed those spaces to come and sit down and enjoy the recreation that’s attached to it. So this is an exciting moment, and I am just so pleased that this is being done under our administration.”