Dave Barker

Director of Fort Greene Park, fisherman, and Newyoregonian. Tweets are my own.

[Jon Wertheim @jon_wertheim]

Next time you hear tennis dismissed as "boring," here's your counterpoint... #USOpen

[Fort Greene Park Conservancy @fortgreenepark]

May 13-17 is National Public Gardens Week!

Come celebrate by exploring @fortgreenepark's 35+, award-winning garden beds, including our beautiful South Portland entrance.

And a round of applause for our Head Gardener, Maxine Webb!

@NYCParks #parks #gardens #spring #flowers

[Fort Greene Park Conservancy @fortgreenepark]

Looking for an unforgettable graduation gift or a special present for a June bride, consider a $300 contribution in their name to help FGP create a Walt Whitman Lilac Grove to honor the park's founding father on his 200th!

https://t.co/6BIWoTCiPK

@fortgreenepark #graduation

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

All in Sunday nytimes: Species going extinct and need for more forest preservation. Calls for breaking up big companies. We need a 2020 Teddy Roosevelt more than ever. https://t.co/QhtPP5aBYf

[Fort Greene Park Conservancy @fortgreenepark]

Join us for the unveiling of Courtney McCloskey’s Pieces of Poetry. The mosaic, to be installed near the monument plaza, celebrates three great Fort Greene poets: Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and Richard Wright. Sat May 4, 11AM

@fortgreenepark @UrbanGlass #art #freeevent #parks

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

I grew up awed by the Sword ferns in wooded areas of the Pacific NW and try at every turn to plant Christmas ferns - their Northeastern equivalent - @fortgreenepark. Find them waking up at the Willoughby entrance this week!

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

Thanks @MyrtleAveBklyn!

[Myrtle Ave Brooklyn @MyrtleAveBklyn]

Can we get a 👏👏👏 for the people at @fortgreenepark & @nycparks who make sure our neighborhood gem is always looking 💯? Keep up the great work!! We appreciate it.

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

Tears for Tiger #MastersSunday victory and the @PeteButtigieg announcement, euphoria for @trailblazers Game 1 win, and now #GOT. Don't have a lot left in the tank today.

[Myrtle Ave Brooklyn @MyrtleAveBklyn]

🐣☀️ The most PERFECT weather for an egg hunt today!! Thank you to everyone who came out to @fortgreenepark to enjoy the fun.

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

The parks-and-rec-level successes of a small city mayor don’t seem to naturally translate into...national—and international—policy solutions. But if there’s an overarching theme...it seems to be this: Change can’t be stopped, but it can be managed. https://t.co/l1EwqFTGHW

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

@PeteButtigieg's simple formula for dealing with angry constituents i.e. why haven't you fixed ____? Acknowledge the problem, tell them what you're doing to fix it, let them know how they can help https://t.co/v1qFT2dupZ @Chas10Buttigieg

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

"They just want a person who is more about governing than virtue-signaling, more about friendliness and basic decency than media circus and rhetorical war."

[David Brooks @DavidBrooks224]

But maybe that’s Buttigieg — he squares a lot of circles. He deftly detaches progressive policy positions from the culture war. He offers change without Sturm und Drang. https://t.co/Uy3ZfKvZef

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

Disagree. New parks mentioned in @theamscho article serve as lively and successful town squares and plazas, not Olmstedian retreats to experience nature. There's a place for both in cities.

[Fort Greene Park Conservancy @fortgreenepark]

"Max, the head gardener ... taught [me] by example a philosophy about gardening: 'Don’t overthink it. Plants die and plants grow, and the work is never done. We’re just part of the process.'"
--"E" Itaya and Wicket

Join Volunteer Gardeners! Email [email protected].

[Myrtle Ave Brooklyn @MyrtleAveBklyn]

There's one week left to nominate a fellow neighbor as a Community Hero and who'll be featured in an installation in @fortgreenepark this summer. Submit your noms at https://t.co/j2nvDf55SQ

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

Let's make sure he has the resources to compete: https://t.co/y28XFnrMlZ

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

We need generational change -- we need more voices stepping up from the generation that has so much at stake in the decisions that are being made. These decisions being made right now will decide how the next 20, 30, or 40 years will go. This is about an era.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

I have rarely seen a candidate make better use of televised Town Hall than @PeteButtigieg is on @CNN tonight. Crisp, thoughtful and relatable. He’ll be a little less of a long shot tomorrow.

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

Well put @PeteButtigieg

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

#CNNTownHall

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

Yes @fortgreenepark gets two stops!

[NYC Parks @NYCParks]

Introducing our new subway-style map, based on the classic design, featuring a city park for every stop throughout NYC! Check out the full map: https://t.co/5lmeUAtAIB

[Dave Barker @dbarkernyc]

@Lucaskavner in @MiddleburyMag on value of failure: “you don’t ever win, but...over the course of a career, you get to stack those failures like bricks and make a tower that resembles a life spent trying, and one you can be proud of.”