“Supporting Our Parks: A Guide to Alternative Revenue Strategies,” provides a detailed look at the opportunities to generate funding outside of the city budget to support parks. New parks, which are frequently built on the waterfront or on brownfields, are often are more costly to maintain but are constructed without paralleled increases in maintenance funding. In this time of fiscal restraint, the report offers a balanced, comprehensive look at potential revenue streams to ensure our parks remain clean, green and safe.

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New Yorkers for Parks has created the Open Space Index, a series of standardized targets for open space and environmental sustainability in New York City neighborhoods. The Index includes measures such as walking distance to a neighborhood park, acres of passive and active open space, and number of community gardens, playgrounds and recreation centers. Using our methodology, existing neighborhood conditions can be assessed against the Index’s set of goals, and communities can use this evaluation to set priorities for their neighborhood’s future.

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New Yorkers for Parks identified nine ways that the City should improve the connections between new immigrants and parks, including providing resources to enhance translation services, implementing a transparent process to issue permits for fields and events, and increasing culturally diverse food vendors in parks.

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The City Council District Profiles document parks and open space in all 51 City Council districts. They are an essential tool for advocating for increased green space and improved care for existing parks and playgrounds.

In the 2008 report, “Tracking Crime in New York City Parks,” New Yorkers for Parks analyzes data collected through a pilot program which tracks crime in the city’s 20 largest parks.

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This educational brochure is a citizen’s guide to the process of “parkland alienation,” or the taking of parkland for a non-park use.

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