Flushing Meadows Corona Park is being neglected as part of a strategy to prepare it for privatization, exemplified by the plan to develop the Citi Field parking lot into a casino. This requires converting designated parkland into regular land, a process that should involve creating new parkland. The proposed 'Flushing Skypark' promises to improve connectivity to the park, yet lacks necessary bike lanes. Skepticism prevails as past developments have failed to deliver promised community benefits, raising doubts about the motivations behind these urban transformations.
Even in a city that treats its outer-borough parks as temporary inconveniences to real estate ambitions, Flushing Meadows Corona Park stands out for being starved of resources in an effort to prime it for privatization.
New York politicians are lining up to give away the existing parkland on the specious claim that it will improve connectivity.
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