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#parks-department

Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams The city is lifting its ban on e-bikes and scooters in parks and greenways as part of a yearlong pilot starting June 20, the Parks Department announced on Wednesday.The policy change, announced by the Adams administration in March, will permit the operators of most e-bikes and e-scooters to ride on park drives, such as the loops in Central and Prospect parks, as well as the city's greenways, such as those along the Hudson River, East River, Harlem River, and Jamaica Bay.

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 by Ava Garderet
A pilot opportunity from the Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission aims to support the city's digital inclusion program by resourcing new computer labs around the community.At the commission's May 24 meeting, Chair Nehemiah Pitts described how he initially came across the partnership opportunity when he met contacts from the N50 Project , a coalition of companies and organizations working to close the global digital divide.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 by Chad Swiatecki
The Parks and Recreation Board has signaled it will ask City Council to require fair pay standards to be included in all future contracts with South by Southwest, including its use of Auditorium Shores for free concerts for the public.At its Monday meeting, the board was set to consider a resolution concerning compensation for SXSW artists, but opted to delay the action until its June 26 meeting that will come after festival managers complete their annual review of the event.

Volunteers at a Brownsville community garden were left "devastated" after a mural dedicated to a local 9/11 victim was demolished last month despite their pleas to preserve it.The mural, dedicated to Benjamin Keefe Clark, who lost his life in the 2001 terror attack, was painted by local children on the side of a derelict building which bordered the Jes Good Rewards Children's Garden on Amboy Street.

A new cafe could soon be coming to Downtown Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza Park, with the city asking businesses interested in setting up shop to submit a proposal of their plans.According to the NYC Parks Department's request for proposals, the cafe would take over the circa 1950s concrete maintenance building that sits near Cadman Plaza West and Tillary Street.

First, Rachel Fruchter was killed by a reckless, uninsurable driver in Prospect Park in 1997.Then, Norman Fruchter was killed last month by a reckless uninsurable driver in Bay Ridge.Both of Lev Fruchter's parents (Norman, inset, and Rachel) have been killed by reckless drivers.Main photo: Peter Meitzler
Lev Fruchter is living every New Yorker's nightmare - times two.