Parks and Recreation

As mentioned in our "Morning Reads," Mayor de Blasio is announcing this morning that the city will be spending $130 million to improve small parks in low income neighborhoods. The mayor's office has not released the complete funding list...

Here's a followup on the push to save the Siempre Verde Community Garden on Stanton Street. Garden activists launched a petition drive to stop a private developer and the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) from building...

Early this year, the Public Design Commission and Community Board 3 approved a conceptual master plan for a park at Pier 42.  Mathews Nielsen, the firm hired to design the 8-acrre recreational space near Montgomery Street will return to...

Seward Park is not only one of the Lower East Side's most heavily used public spaces, but as this country's oldest municipal playground, it also has historical significance. Mayor de Blasio recognized this fact last spring when he used...

This Sunday, September 14th, find the Ecology Center set up on the north side of Tompkins Square Park, on Avenue A between E9th and E10th Streets, accepting unwanted electronics for recycling and re-use. We'll be there from 10am to...

It's not too hard to figure out what's wrong with this picture. As these photos indicate, the wooden strips have been partially and, in some cases, completely removed from the benches installed just a couple of years ago on...

Partnerships for Parks, New Yorkers for Parks and the Center for Urban Pedagogy teamed up to produce a guide for people interested in improving their local parks. The illustrated fold-out poster is embedded below. Here's more from the organizations: Whether...

A citywide competition kicks off at Coleman Skatepark tomorrow at noon.

After community feedback, plans for the park on Broome Street are moving toward completion.

M'Finda Kalunga Community Garden supporters dedicated a "scent garden" during the annual Juneteenth celebration of African heritage in Sara D. Roosevelt Park on Saturday. The new section of the garden is designed especially for sight-impaired visitors. It is named in...