Composting
A notice on a composting bin in St.Vartan Park on December 2, 2023.
A space inside St. Vartan Park’s northeast entrance on First Avenue serves as an active public food-scrap drop-off composting site. Provided by the NYC Compost Project program and Lower East Side Ecology Center, the operation was started in May 2021 by Alliance for Kips Bay and has run all but three months since.
A public Smart Composting Bin is also available nearby, across the street from St. Vartan Park on the northeast corner of First Avenue and East 35th Street.
On July 19, 2023, (from left) New York City Council Member Keith Powers community liaison Patrick Hill and St. Vartan Park Conservancy officers Kevin O’Keefe and Michael-Ann Rowe welcome a Smart Composting Bin across the street from the St. Vartan Park public garden
Green composting and blue recycling bins appear outside the St. Vartan Park garden on April 8, 2023
