New York Restoration Project
New York Restoration Project (NYRP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming open space in under-resourced communities to create a greener, more sustainable New York City. Since our founding in 1995 by Bette Midler, NYRP has planted trees, renovated gardens, restored parks, and transformed open space for communities throughout New York City's five boroughs. As New York's only citywide conservancy, we bring private resources to spaces that lack municipal support, fortifying the City's aging infrastructure and creating a healthier environment for those who live in the most densely populated and least green neighborhoods.www.nyrp.org
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Oct 19, 2026
Doug JonesGUEST
It was actually...
Doug JonesGUEST
She does a charity event every year at Halloween time called Hulaween.
Doug JonesGUEST
Right.
Doug JonesGUEST
Her big Hulaween party, because, you know, with her Hawaiian roots, Hulaween, it's a great play on words.
Doug JonesGUEST
Proceeds go to her New York charity, the New York Restoration Project.
Doug JonesGUEST
It's the cherry that greens up the areas of the city.
Doug JonesGUEST
I think there's everything from like decorative trees and bushes to gardens and things that can actually help people with food, right? Sure.
Chris TerrillNARRATOR
In 2007, the space formerly known as the Baisley Park Community Garden began its remarkable transformation into the Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Community Garden.
Chris TerrillNARRATOR
Giving back to his childhood neighborhood and the community that has supported him over the years, rap sensation 50 Cent joined forces with the NYRP founder and performer Bette Midler to breathe new life into this much-needed green space.
Curtis JacksonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is great.
Bette MidlerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm thrilled.
Mark LeidorfNARRATOR
Monsanto, the agrochemical giant, was an early funder of SUNY's transgenic research.
Mark LeidorfNARRATOR
In opposition are competing non-GE projects supported by native tribes, environmental protest groups, and urban regreening collectives, including Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project.
Mark LeidorfNARRATOR
All are united by a single goal, saving the American chestnut, and bitterly divided over how to get there.
Mark LeidorfNARRATOR
Repopulating the eastern forest would be bigger than the Manhattan Project, according to Caleb Kell from Purdue University's College of Agriculture, a researcher who studied the darling's blight resistance.
Dana R. FisherGUEST
And there was this big move to try to do it here in New York City, but there was a lot of opposition originally.
Dana R. FisherGUEST
And I believe, my understanding is... that folks from the New York Restoration Project, which was run by Bette Midler, you may have heard of
Ben HurstHOST
her.
Dana R. FisherGUEST
She helped and her team helped to kind of get a bunch of very like fancy friends to help raise the funds to make this beautiful space.
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When we talk about protecting wildlife, you have to protect habitat.
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The Wildlife Conservation Society joining the 1000 Chestnut Challenge started by the New York Restoration Project.
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We are a greening organization, so we work in all five boroughs.
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Our mission is to bring well-managed green space to all New Yorkers, and we decided to launch a really ambitious chestnut planting project.
Susan RichardHOST
Get yours at rockefellercenter.com. A tree that was virtually extinct is now making a comeback in New York City.
Susan RichardHOST
Jason Smith is with the New York Restoration Project.
Jason SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A blight was introduced on Asian chestnut trees that were brought to the country, and it was first identified at the Bronx Zoo in 1904, and within 40 years, over four billion trees were gone, and so it was a real ecological catastrophe.
Susan RichardHOST
But now, new signs of life with a planting in the Bronx.
Jason SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thousands of New Yorkers who have signed up to help, uh, and are really eager to find a place and plant a chestnut.
Jason SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's not always easy in New York City to plant a big tree, so we're working with folks to try to find appropriate sites.
Susan RichardHOST
Learn more about the New York Restoration Project at nyrp.org.
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JeniHOST
And honestly, I think Bette Midler loves Hocus Pocus so much.
JeniHOST
And she actually has this nonprofit that's called the New York Restoration Project.
JeniHOST
And it aims to create a greener and more sustainable New York.
JeniHOST
And during 2020, they did a reunion.
Christopher GriffinGUEST
Food, I think, makes up, like food waste makes up around like 24% of what ends up in U.S. municipal landfills.
Christopher GriffinGUEST
About 58% of methane released from landfills is caused by food waste, right? And so I volunteer with them, right? I work with the New York Restoration Project with Stewart's Community Garden throughout New York City.
Christopher GriffinGUEST
And so I think When the conversations feel so big and we're trying to do everything, we're like, you know, you can't do everything.
Christopher GriffinGUEST
So you got to focus on doing something.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
She also did another benefit special called In Search of the Sanderson Sisters, a Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
This was to benefit the New York Restoration Project, and it reunited the original three from Hocus Pocus, Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
And it was this one-hour mockumentary hosted by Elvira, where she tries to find the Sanderson sisters and has interviews with various characters and celebrities.
Kevin JacobsenHOST
And Glenn actually appears as Cruella de Vil, complete with the black and white wig and the red gloves and the cigarette holder and And she is fully at a 10.