Armory Gets Daffodil Treatment

Just because the redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory is stalled indefinitely, doesn’t mean nothing can be done to give the grounds outside the armory a makeover.

Armed with more than 2,000 daffodil bulbs provided by New Yorkers for Parks, a couple of dozen volunteers cleared brush and debris from the front of the facility and planted the bulbs along the perimeter of the head house on Kingsbridge Road on Nov. 5. Many of the volunteers expected to return the next day, and passersby also expressed interest in coming back to help beautify the barren armory landscape they pass every day.

Phyllis Reed, who is active with the Bronx arts group NFAMAS, organized the event and said it will be the first of many.

Those who participated included students from Fordham University, members of the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center and volunteers from the Fordham-Bedford Lotbusters Community Garden.

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