A unique project in New York City has been devising better ways to engage with immigrant communities. The Immigrants & Parks Collaborative, funded by the JM Kaplan Fund, City Parks Foundation and New York Immigration Coalition, has supported work with ten community-based organizations in eight parks to provide a dedicated staff person for participatory planning, [...]
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An article in the New York Times yesterday gives an interesting overview of the row that’s ensued in the past years over redesigning and changing New York’s well-known 10-acre Washington Square Park. The article provides valuable insight into how or if park redesigns should be undertaken in such a situation, but also reveals how much [...]
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A new playground opened recently in New York City’s Morningside Park that attempts to provide lower play spaces that won’t hurt children when they fall while still providing challenge and fun. Here’s an excerpt from the NY Times article describing it: The jungle gym itself sprawls over a chunk of a block, with the younger [...]
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Next American City describes the floating pool barge calling New York City home, noting that there were actually 15 such pools in the city 100 years ago, then for hygienic purposes but now for recreational. The idea has been the project of former city planner and New York City park official Ann Buttenwieser. Some additional [...]
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An article in USA Today describes the new program in New York City to create “street plazas” from pieces or entire lanes of streets. On Broadway, the neon-lit, iconic avenue that slices through Manhattan, city officials have transformed two traffic lanes between Times Square and Herald Square into pedestrian plazas where folks can sit at [...]
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There’s more evidence of parks positive affect on property values from New York City. A new report issued today by the Friends of Hudson River Park found that the $75 million the public invested in a section of the park in Greenwich Village sprouted into an additional $200 million in property values in a two-block [...]
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