The New York Phenology Project is a community-science initiative to investigate changing plant and pollinator phenology across an urban to rural gradient in lower NY. This network of phenology trails and sites have been established at nature centers/research stations/educational institutions that have trained staff able to collect data on a weekly basis, can manage and upkeep a marked trail and engage citizen scientists, volunteers and students who visit these sites for educational purposes. These trails are currently established in a gradient from NYC north to the Adirondacks and NYC east across Long Island  to look at possible range shifts and urbanization effects on plants and their animal mutualists (focused on pollinator synchronization). A list of 30 plants are idenitfied that represent a variety of common woodland, riparian, meadow, urban and pollinator garden plants so that the same species will be in as many locations as possible. Phase two of this initiative will focus on developing protocols for evaluating mismatch for animal mutualists.The mission of this public participation in science research initiative is to educate and engage the public while collecting data that is useful for detecting broad-scale patterns in the natural world. Initial adoption of the New York Phenology Project protocol and program was made by the Environmental Monitoring and Management Alliance of the Hudson Valley (www.emmahv.org), an organization that continues to offer leadership and support as the program expands into other regions in the state of New York.