Daffodil Project Adds Color, Contentment

Daffodil Project adds color, contentment

Queens residents will soon have their chance to volunteer with the Daffodil Project, a beautification effort that began after the slaughter of Sept. 11, 2001 and now honors victims of both the terror attacks and the Covid-19 pandemic, while promoting…

‘A spark of hope’: 25 years after 9/11, the Daffodil Project keeps blooming

Days after 9/11, when the city was still reeling, public garden designer Lynden Miller got a message from one of her longtime colleagues, Dutch floral supplier Hans van Waardenberg. “He said, ‘We're so distressed in the Netherlands about what's happened to New York. New York used to be New Amsterdam back in the 1600s, we so wish there was something we could do to help you,’” Miller recalled.  Miller had an idea, and asked if van Waardenberg had …