" Our friends at New Yorkers for Parks and the Play Fair for Parks Coalition are demanding that incoming Mayor Mamdani do more than just make good on his promise to double the Parks Department budget (because zero times two is still zero!) by ending the agency's hiring freeze, launching a bathroom blitz, reduce the 35,000 open work orders in the forestry division, create a Parks Master Plan and fully fund the Queensway."
"It's a long list of "first 100-day priorities," but these are some pretty low-hanging branches to clear away, if you ask the two groups. "New Yorkers have been told for years that parks matter - but the Adams administration's cuts showed the opposite," Adam Ganser, executive director of New Yorkers for Parks, told us in a statement. "Mayor-elect Mamdani now has the chance to reset the city's priorities and prove on Day 1 that parks are essential infrastructure, especially for working families.""
Streetsblog runs an annual tax-deductible fundraiser to support reporters and editors, offering a special gift for top donors and sustaining free, high-quality journalism. The fundraiser seeks reader support to help create more livable, walkable, bikeable, equitable, and enjoyable cities. New Yorkers for Parks and the Play Fair for Parks Coalition demand that incoming Mayor Mamdani end the Parks Department hiring freeze, launch a bathroom blitz, reduce 35,000 open forestry work orders, create a Parks Master Plan, and fully fund the Queensway. The groups call for a Parks Department budget of at least 1 percent of the city budget to rebuild operations after the loss of more than 600 positions under the previous mayor.
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