Breukelen Cleanup Volunteers Rewarded With Rock Concert
 | | Project hierarchy (left to right): Coordinator Wayne Harris, "Commissioner" Jeffrey Reed and Tenants Association President Tony Barnes.
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Members of the Breukelen Houses Tenants Association last Friday joined the New York Department of Parks and Recreation's Beautification Project, along with Boost Mobile & Rock Corps in volunteering to "clean up and beautify" the park and playground adjacent to P.S. 260 at 875 Williams Avenue, part of the Breuk-elen Houses complex. Although the youths' involvement was voluntary, in return for their hard work, everyone who signed up received a free ticket to a concert at Radio City Music Hall next month.
According to Wayne Harris, spokesman for the Tenants Association and event organizer, the purpose of the gathering was to "expose young people to the benefits of volunteerism."
"When young people are involved in volunteer projects, it helps them develop their behavior towards others and teaches them the 'team approach,'" Tenant Association President Tony Barnes said. "We need to create more activities that we want our kids to be involved in, instead of always telling them what not to do."
 | | Volunteers paint skelly graphicss on a patch of playground. Barsun Harris
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The volunteers were involved in everything from gardening to painting basketball courts and, at the insistence of Pierre Raymond, interim principal of P.S. 260, volunteers were scheduled to paint hop-scotch and skelly graphs on the school grounds.
RockCorp is a not-for-profit group based in Manhattan that goes around the country organizing events for the benefit of local communities.
 | | Five volunteers use rollers to paint over a wall of graffiti.
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