Park News:

After High Line’s Success, Other Cities Look Up

Art vendors fight in court as new regs set to start

A Place to Shop at Tavern While You Wait

Advocates: State DOT Analysis Engineered to Preclude Sheridan Teardown 

Greenfield Goes Green: Funds New, Improved Parks in District

Arrest Puts End to a War on Brooklyn Trees

Dead geese walking?

Flushing Meadows garden honors park defender David Oats with garden

SI Parks Commissioner Remembers His Time at the Helm

Just for Fun:

What’s the Best Public Outdoor Space in Your Area?

News from “The Blue Room”:

MAYOR BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES BOARD MEMBERS OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED TRUST FOR GOVERNORS ISLAND

Park News:

Bloomberg Signs Law Altering Concert Rules

Bronx Pianos Say 'Play Me,' Not 'Break Me'

Padlocked Garden Over Lincoln Tunnel Getting New Life as a Park

Mexican immigrant killed by drifters in Astoria Park: DA

Cheers and jeers for a new playground in BPC park

Forest Park carousel fans have to wait a while longer as city continues search for new vendor

400 geese euthanized to reduce number near New York airports

Just for Fun:

A Glimpse of Old Waterfront, on Dry Land

And a "must listen" to This American Life on National Public Radio: Social Contract

"Richard Ravitch has helped fix three governmental crises, including when New York City nearly went bankrupt in 1975. What's changed, to make it so much harder for him to solve the state's current financial crisis?"

Park News:

Open Space to replace Sheridan Expressway

Seaside Summer Concert Series still on hold

Hiking the Heights

Building up the Bronx

Piers for Green Point, Brooklyn

Park News:

Long, uncertain road ahead for Cromwell Center, Staten Island

Where Does the Water Go? In most cities, it runs off into nearby lakes, rivers and streams. And that's a problem

Survey Finds Blacks and Latinos Less Likely to Swim Well Than Whites

Park vs. Park

Man Stabbed to Death Near Harlem Pool

Before They Were Parks From landfill and graveyards, to green space

These lucky nonprofit park workers are getting a salary from city Parks Department, too

Harlem's Highbridge Park is a poster child for neglect by city