New York City Parks Department

On a recent cold afternoon at the Parade Grounds in Brooklyn, half of the fields were bright green and alive with the sounds of play.  The high ping of an aluminum baseball bat making contact with the ball mixed with shouting in Spanish as a nearby soccer game grew intense.

The other half was closed off, barren and gray-brown.

One of these fallow fields was supposed to have been covered in synthetic turf, like the livelier half of the Parade Grounds were.

But it hasn’t, and in all likelihood won’t be anytime soon.

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