Good morning, readers! Here are today's NYC parks news stories!

She Creates Urban Edens 

Electeds Absent; Amp Critics Keep Punching 

New Skate Park for Canarsie Moving Forward

Unveiling Grand New Design: Concourse plan winner to be revealed

Good afternoon, readers. Here are today’s NYC park news stories!

Sentient cities may answer back

We're paying $14M to open a few locks: Custodians to get extra 50G at each schoolyard

Engaging Immigrants in City Parks

City Mulls Full Ownership of High Line

Park News

A tree grows (and dies) in Brooklyn

The battle of the Long-Horned Beetle has begun

Blog Action Day

Today is Blog Action Day and this year’s theme is Climate Change. So, here are some more facts on how climate change will affect our parks of all sizes.

Listen to this radio story on how National Parks are being hit by climate change

Report: Climate change 'greatest threat ever' to national parks

Project Manager, NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, Ellen Hartig gave a presentation at the Columbia Earth Institute on climate change and parks. View her presentation here.

Park News

Wind reigns at city's green 'power park'

A Park Is Renewed, the Better to Honor the Hero in Its Name

New York's lost island: Governor’s Island rises from a history of secrecy and war

Parks, DEP not on same page for reservoir

Check out the New Yorkers for Parks Facebook page for staff pictures of the Daffodil Distribution at the Bronx Borough Hall Green Market! It was mighty chilly but the daffodil bulbs went fast! Hoping for good weather this Saturday morning for the Manhattan Daffodil Distribution at Union Square!