#nycparks — Public Fediverse posts

#QueensZoo needs to ditch these awful bike racks and install staple racks. This same amount of space could fit at least a dozen bikes, but the "wheel bender" rack is just space inefficient.

#NYCParksDepartment #BikeTooter #BikeNYC #BikeQNS #CargoBikes #NYCParks

For allies of American Research, a chance to meet others irl and sweat it out together::

#HikeTheHeights with
#nyc #NYCparks #SaveAmericanScience
GISS & Columbia & CCNY and all the friendly folks meet at 112/Bway outside the abandoned nasa facility.

It will be hot and humid - plan accordingly.

Sat, June 6, 9am:: https://www.hiketheheights.org

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The hike will end near the pedestrian bridge of the original Croton Aqueduct connecting #Manhattan to #TheBronx.

Hike the Heights is an annual community hike and celebration in northern Manhattan parks. The day consists of hikes along the Giraffe Path and a community celebration in #HighbridgePark with arts, games, food, and fun for all ages.

The neighborhood party serves as a community "potluck" — each individual, group, or organization contributes something to the day: art stations, sport clinics, music and dancing, and their time and energy. The community flavor makes it feel like a family picnic, even for first-time participants.

GATES on #WashingtonSquarePark?

I'm prez of the Washington Square Association & we're about to share how people feel about it w/ local #government making decisions.

WE WANT ALL VOICES who care about the park to speak up & be represented. Please encourage anyone & everyone to fill this super short survey out.

Trust that your voice will be heard. I'll personally be sending the results to govt leaders Monday. #NYCPolitics #NYCParks #CommunityInput #GreenwichVillage #NYC
https://www.washingtonsquarenyc.org/gating-survey

GATES on #WashingtonSquarePark?

I'm prez of the Washington Square Association & we're about to share how people feel about it w/ local #government making decisions.

WE WANT ALL VOICES who care about the park to speak up & be represented. Please encourage anyone & everyone to fill this super short survey out.

Trust that your voice will be heard. I'll personally be sending the results to govt leaders Monday.
#NYCPolitics #NYCParks #CommunityInput #GreenwichVillage #NYC https://www.washingtonsquarenyc.org/gating-survey

Washington Square Park is looking for volunteers to clean up after 4/20

https://volunteer.bloomerang.co/volunteer/#/join-party?k=9c577x9lcd860j

#nyc #nycparks #420day

News 12 | The Bronx https://www.allforgardening.com/1666913/news-12-the-bronx/ #garden #gardener #gardening #gardens #NYCParks #PuertoRican #PuertoRico

12 March 2026

Gramercy, Manhattan, NYC

#iphoneography #iphonephotography #streetphotography #rain #rainy #gloomy #citypark #nycparks #gramercy #manhattan #nyc #nycphotography #newyorkcity #newyorkcityphotography

I was late to pick my daughter up from camp because #NYCParks closed a huge portion of Corona-Meadows Flushing Park. Apparently for some kind of music festival. There was, of course, no bike detour. The area has highways running through it, and the bridges over the highways are cordoned off. How do you get to #QueensZoo? Why, just take this other pedestrian bridge (which has gates blocking cargo bikes)!

Just constant middle fingers to #BikeNYC in central queens from Eric Adams' administration.

Queens Community Board 3 (Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst & North Corona) is holding a public hearing on a proposal for the city to buy 21 private lots for new neighborhood green spaces!

🗓️ When: Thursday, July 17, 2025
⏰ Time: 7 PM
📍 Where: Langston Hughes Library
100-01 Northern Blvd, Corona, NY 11368

More info: https://queenscb3.cityofnewyork.us/event/land-use-public-hearing/

#JacksonHeights #EastElmhurst #NorthCorona #Queens #NYCParks #CommunityBoard3 #ULURP #NYC

These #NYCParks-provided bikewashing stations, so convenient and useful on hot days! #BikeNYC

New Yorkers for Parks will also be hosting a webinar the week prior on March 11 to share key updates on the fight for parks funding, what’s at stake in the upcoming budget, and how you can get involved in advocating for NYC’s parks and green spaces.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/CgCPOVEvR_-q7gqUUhmWTA#/registration

#NYC #NYCParks

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I know everyone is focused on national politics at the moment, but for those in #NYC who are concerned about #NYCParks budget being chiseled away year after year and the subsequent effects on the quality of life, here is a way to make your voice heard directly to the City Council.

Get out to City Hall on March 17. This is both a #rally and a chance to speak at a budget hearing

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/play-fair-for-parks-rally-preliminary-budget-hearing-tickets-1255656234599?aff=erelexpmlt

#NYPol

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My office hvac is broke. So I am remotely working from the #nyc greenways summit part of my day.

Oh the joy of having the #NYCparks employee literally running from me because they don’t have a plan to fix the #HudsonRiverGreenway which succumbed to years of neglect and extreme rain and now has collapsed in a section.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/08/23/fridays-headlines-return-of-the-sinkhole-edition

#bikeNYC #NYCbike

Now I bike on the #HarlemRiverGreenway — it isn’t far behind in collapsing from extreme rain.

#Greenway

😭

In my neighborhood, #NYCparks are replacing a (uptown #nyc neglected) grass field w #ArtificialTurf , a #UrbanHeatIsland exacerbater

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212095521000845

Parks ReplyGuy says new stuff uses coconut shells not rubber infill so is fine; But w/o évapotranspiration, I doubt it. Bare soil is bad too — the field def needs a rehab

Plus plastic runoff. Sports injuries. Outgassing. Ick.

I thought other cities were banning this stuff.

Thoughts?

https://www.nycgovparks.org/planning-and-building/capital-project-tracker/project/9331

#bikeNYC #NYCbike #nyc

Mark Levine #manhattan borough president is having a AMA Tuesday 9/10 at 2p:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicromobilityNYC/s/aJzkUKWkCu

I am livid that I am still unable to do my bike commute because #nycparks through hubris and neglect allowed a sinkhole to take the path out— 18 months after closing said path and supposedly fixing it.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/08/23/fridays-headlines-return-of-the-sinkhole-edition

Let’s tell him that bikes ARE transportation.

We need the same sense of urgency to keep bike lanes safe and passable as cars get for highways.

@TheConversationUS

#nyc rips out trees and grass to put in #ArtificialTurf because it drains n is cheaper to maintain in spite of its contribution to #UrbanHeatIsland

They assure you that it’s not the old AstroTurf— it has pads n coconut shells not rubber infill

But plastic grass doesn’t evaporate moisture out of its leaves - évapotranspiration- so still gets hot enough to cook an egg

NASA interns clocked some in nyc at 160F on an 85F day

#nycparks #greenwashing

https://www.nycgovparks.org/planning-and-building/capital-project-tracker/project/9331

Mayor Eric Adam’s wants to cut $55million from parks; he let the nypd take $2.2 billion in overtime alone last year

If you live or just love #nyc #parks ,

And think that our #NYCParks are one of our greatest assets =>

Please tell Mayor Adams to increase not cut their budget.

NYC council has already told them their thoughts
https://council.nyc.gov/press/2024/05/20/2614/

Here’s help to tell yours :

https://secure.ny4p.org/a/no-cuts-to-nyc-parks