North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
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@NBKParks
The non-profit conservancy working to ensure an equitable and vibrant parks/open space system in Greenpoint & Williamsburg!
Parks advocates gearing up to yell at Mamdani over proposed budget cuts gothamist.com/news/parks-adv…
16-year-old boy dies after fall near Bushwick Inlet Park, police say gothamist.com/news/16-year-o…
Spring is coming, and so is $50 million for parks! We’re investing in parks in historically underfunded neighborhoods across all five boroughs starting with: 🌳Mott Playground (Concourse) 🌳Fountain of Youth Playground (Mott Haven / Longwood) 🌳Morris Mesa Playground (Mount Hope) 🌳Van Dyke Playground (Brownsville) 🌳Roebling Playground (South Williamsburg) 🌳Elizabeth Stroud Playground (Bedford–Stuyvesant) 🌳Vladeck Park (Lower East Side) 🌳St. Nicholas Park 133rd St. Playground (Harlem) 🌳Corona Health Sanctuary (Corona) 🌳Kaltenmeier Playground (Rosebank / Shore Acres)
Malcolm “Cinema” Pinckney, who started working for the Parks Department in the 1970s, will retire next month after a career shooting everyone from Nelson Mandela to George Clinton. thecity.nyc/2026/03/06/par…
Help shape NYC’s first Environmental Justice Plan! Share your community’s concerns on housing, air/water, climate impacts, hazardous materials, and access to resources. Survey (5 languages) closes 3/1 at 11:59pm: bit.ly/EJinform
#PlayFairCoalition members really enjoyed hearing from the @NYCParks commissioner last night at an event hosted by @NY4P. If your org supports a fully funded parks system, sign up to join the Coalition here: ny4p.org/what-we-do/pla…
Just over a decade ago Herman Hochberg Plaza on Myrtle Avenue wasn't a cute little public park for folks to hangout in Ridgewood Queens, but a slip road. Amazing how much more pleasant we can make our commercial corridors if we don't get hung up on losing a few parking spots!
