NYC's youth-made Green Maps inform community members about what young people observe and value about the environment and help propel us all towards a healthier, more sustainable future. We welcome new projects in schools, all-ages clubs, religious organizations, and by individual young people in every neighborhood.

We have worked with a number of schools and educational organizations across New York City to create youth and community driven projects. They are listed below (or download a list here).

New Tools!: exciting new educational modules for middle and high school age youth were created in Fall 2007. Download these free Energy & Environment Exploration modules now! We have also updated all our Green Mapmaking resources, available to all registered Green Mapmakers via GreenMap.org, our main website (click Resources for a preview).

Older people involved in community groups have begun to create Green Apple Maps as well - the first was published by NYC Sierra Club's Eco Restoration Committee and charts upper Manhattan's High Bridge Park. We have also partnered with the Upper Green Side, and two projects in Brooklyn's Green Fort Greene - Clinton Hill area, too. For more about these projects, click "Community Green Maps" on the left.

This section provides an introduction to several wonderful independently-run projects, both underway and completed, in NYC's five boroughs.

You can find out about Green Map System's youth tools here too (although much more about our Youth Mapmaking Resources can be seen in the global Youth Mapmaking pages at GreenMap.org/youth). And don't miss the wonderful gallery of global youth maps -- youth in 14 countries have created Green Maps to date!

NYC Youth Groups
Brooklyn
Recycle A Bicycle

Manhattan
Central Park Conservancy - media program
Chinatown Manpower Project
Recycle A Bicycle

Queens
East River Apprentice Shop - Queens
Service For Peace - Queens

Greater New York
Girl Scouts of Greater New York

NYC K-12 Schools
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Tech – Fort Greene
Bushwick Schools – BCUE
Hannah Senesh School – Downtown Brooklyn
High School for Public Service – East NY
PS 771 - Coney Island and Brighton Beach

The Bronx
Longwood Elementary

Manhattan
All Saints School – Harlem
City As School - Soho
Montessori School – Upper West Side
PS 20 – Lower East Side
Satellite Academy – Lower East Side
School for the Physical City – mid-Manhattan
20 schools and clubs took part in the 2001-04 LoMap (Lower Manhattan) project

We have also worked with some New York City based Universities including,

Columbia University
New York University
Pace University
Parsons, the New School of Design

Contact us at 212-674-1631 or by email to apple [at] greenmap [dot] org if you want to know more about bringing Green Mapmaking to your neighborhood!

Recycle A Bicycle summer programs have involved youth in Green Mapmaking since 1998.

Some of our Educational Partners have included:

Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment

Buckminster Fuller Institute

Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum

Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education

Earth Day New York

Eco Metropolis

Henry Street Settlement

Lower East Side Ecology Center

Municipal Art Society - Urban Center Gallery

NYC Environmental Justice Alliance

Project TRUCE

Time's Up! Environmental Organization

Note: people sometimes ask, what is the difference between youth Green Maps in general and one like LoMap?
LoMap brought youth ideas and images together, then the map was composed and produced by adults. Neighborhood and thematic maps by youth are planned, researched, authored and designed by youth themselves.


For more fun and interactive internet maps of NYC, see Gotham Gazette's Map Archive