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fromwww.amny.com
1 week ago

NYC Parks ignored in Mamdani's city budget as New Yorkers long for outdoor space: report

NYC Parks' recreation budget has declined from 31% in the mid-1960s to 5% today, leaving communities without adequate facilities, staffing, and programming despite rising demand.
fromCivil Eats
4 months ago

Crusading New York Community Garden Group Turns 30

Empty lots became dumping grounds for abandoned cars, tires, drug waste, and heaps of trash. By 1995, the situation was dire. That year, while driving her daughter to school on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Midler noticed the dismal conditions in Fort Tryon Park. Disturbed by the neglect, she got a group of friends together to clean and restore the site. From their hands grew the seed of what would eventually become NYRP.
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