community parks initiative

NYC Parks Breaks Ground On $5M Stroud Playground Project

CROWN HEIGHTS – Last Friday, September 8, NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver and City Council Member Laurie Cumbo hosted a groundbreaking ceremony at Stroud Playground, kicking off the $5 million transformation the park will undergo as a part of the Community Parks Initiative. Stroud Playground Groundbreaking (Photo by: Daniel Avila,

Bensonhurst

Renderings Released Showing Bensonhurst’s Petrosino Park After Its $4.5 Million Facelift

A rendering of the renovated Lt. Joseph Petrosino Park by DLANDstudio. Rendering via Brooklyn Reporter [http://brooklynreporter.com/story/design-plans-for-renovation-of-bensonhursts-lt-joseph-petrosino-park-released/] Through the Community Parks Initiative [https://www.nycgovparks.org/preview?id=2442] — a citywide program to improve under-funded parks in densely populated and growing neighborhoods with higher concentrations of poverty

Bensonhurst

Community On Edge After Two Weekend Tragedies

Photo courtesy of Councilman Mark TreygerResidents say they are shaken up by two tragic incidents that occurred near neighborhood parks over a span of 24 hours. Daquan Spencer, 31, was fatally shot at 1:30am Sunday morning while attending a party inside Scarangella Park [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/scarangella-park]

Bensonhurst

Tonight: Help The Parks Department Transform Petrosino Park

Courtesy of NYC Parks [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/lt-joseph-petrosino-park]Community members are invited to a public input meeting today, at which the future of Lt. Joseph Petrosino Park [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/lt-joseph-petrosino-park] — and its complete transformation and reconstruction — will be discussed. At the public meeting, which takes

Bensonhurst

Renderings: Calvert Vaux Park To Get Gorgeous New Restrooms

Calvert Vaux Park [http://www.nycgovparks.org/planning-and-building/capital-project-tracker/project/1038] — Gravesend’s lovely, overgrown, long-neglected [/7-reasons-to-fall-in-love-with-calvert-vaux-park/] green space — will soon get a brand new maintenance building and comfort stations, and the design phase is well underway [http://www.nycgovparks.org/planning-and-building/capital-project-tracker/project/1038] . These are not just any

Bensonhurst

Gravesend’s Scarangella Park To Get $3.5 Million Makeover, Comfort Stations

Photo courtesy of Counciman Mark Treyger/FacebookA combined $3.4 million dollars in funding has been secured to renovate and redevelop Scarangella Park [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/scarangella-park], one of the Bensonhurst/Gravesend area’s largest recreational park and playground locations. City Councilman Mark Treyger, State Senator Diane Savino

community parks initiative

Pols Applaud Inclusion Of Local Playgrounds In Mayor’s Community Parks Initiative

Councilman Mark Treyger announces improvements coming to Lafayette Playground. (Courtesy of Treyger’s Office)The city has doubled the budget for its Community Parks Initiative [http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/framework-for-an-equitable-future/community-parks-initiative] (CPI) — a citywide program to improve under-funded parks in densely populated and growing neighborhoods with higher concentrations of

community parks initiative

Pols Slam Parks Department, Mayor’s Office For Neglect Of Bensonhurst Park

Responding to our reporting [/bensonhurst-park-god-awful-state-disrepair-photos/] on the dismal conditions of Bensonhurst Park [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bensonhurst-park], elected officials slammed Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration for excluding all of southern Brooklyn in its Parks budget today. Councilman Mark Treyger, who is on City Council’s Parks and Recreation