New Yorkers for Parks

@NY4P

Founded in 1908, we are the citywide independent champion of quality open space. Founding member of the #PlayFair Coalition and the #DaffodilProject.

New York, New York linktr.ee/ny4p Joined March 2009

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New Yorkers for Parks @NY4P 4d

NY4P is excited to host the first ever parks sector event at Somos alongside @NYCCouncil Parks Chair @cmtyhankerson, w/ special guests @SpeakerMenin, @AdrienneEAdams, and @MarkLevineNYC.

Thanks to all everyone supporting and participating. Looking forward to seeing y’all there!

New Yorkers for Parks @NY4P 5d

Join the Edgemere-Far Rockaway Walk & Talk to see local parks system accomplishments, issues, opportunities at the site of a planned CLT.

📅 Sat, 11/14
🕒 11am-1pm
📍 Meet @ 45-19 Rockaway Beach Blvd
🔗 bit.ly/edgemerefarroc…

Thanks to @conedison for supporting this program.

New Yorkers for Parks @NY4P 6d

77% of the public restrooms in NYC are located in @NYCParks.

Restrooms in parks are critical infrastructure providing dignity and relief. Closed or inaccessible facilities represent a growing public health issue.

NY4P spoke to @THECITYNY about the issue.
bit.ly/4ivYKlw

www.thecityreporter.nyc Nowhere to Go: 68 NYC Parks Bathrooms Sit Closed — Some for More Than a Decade Bureaucracy, a cost-boosting law favored by trade unions and years of City Hall underfunding combine to make washroom repairs expensive and painfully slow at parks across New York.

New Yorkers for Parks @NY4P Oct 27

"The proliferation of recreational leagues and sports clinics has at times pitted older neighborhood teams against new entrants in a struggle for field time."

More in @THECITYNY:
bit.ly/3WuWIL2

www.thecityreporter.nyc New Yorkers Want to Play Ball. The Toughest Game is Getting a Field. Old-timers vie with newcomers for city ballfields as demand for field reservations has boomed with the growth of organized sports.

New Yorkers for Parks @NY4P Oct 22

This month, NY4P convened local partners from our Walk & Talk series for "From the Ground Up:
From Place to Policy," a panel on shaping the future of NYC's public realm with community-based climate solutions.

Thank you to @conedison for funding
the series and this panel.