Park Bench turns flyers, school emails, and group chat chaos into one family calendar. When a parent at your school adds an event, it shows up for every family who needs it.
Local knowledge, right on your family calendar.
Free for NYC families. Private by default.
How it works
Right now every family in the class reads the same flyer and types the same event into their own calendar. Park Bench lets one parent do it for everyone.
Take a photo of a flyer, forward a school email, or just say it out loud. Park Bench pulls out the date, time, place, and ages and turns it into a real event.
Send it to your Circle: your kid's class, your school, your block, the travel soccer team. You're connected to your school and neighborhood the moment you join.
It lands on every family calendar that needs it, and updates for everyone if the time changes. No reply-all, no missed flyer at the bottom of the backpack.
What the technology already knows
What your neighbors know
Both end up in one place: your family calendar.
No forms, no date pickers. Rocco, your family activities director, remembers your routines so you stop repeating yourself.
NYC-only sources, filtered for your kids, your neighborhood, the weather, and the gaps in your actual schedule.
Syncs with the calendar you already use and keeps every parent and caregiver on the same page.
Hear it from ClareWhy we built it
I'm Clare, a lifelong New Yorker and a mom of two, raising my family in Rockaway. Somewhere between soccer practice, school flyers, and the group text about the group text, I realized every parent I knew was doing the exact same work, alone, in their own kitchen.
Park Bench is my answer. The technology does the sorting. The community does the sharing. One parent adds it, and everyone gets a little of their evening back. We're starting right here in Rockaway and growing one neighborhood at a time.
The Rockaway pilot
A calendar gets better when your neighbors are on it. So instead of launching everywhere at once, we're starting with one peninsula and making it great.
Next: 187 neighborhoods and 7,000+ schools across all five boroughs.
Park Bench is like having a second brain for our family. Everything I used to juggle in my head, from school events to weekend plans, is finally in one place.
Free for NYC families. Pilot now open in Rockaway and the surrounding area.
