via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Waterfront Park Plans Sinking
Greenpoint and Williamsburg have just 0.6 acres of open space per 1,000 residents – far below the city average. Some 33 new acres of promised parks have yet to materialize.
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via New York Daily News
Neighborhood Plagued by Dirty Parks
Parks in a swath of Brooklyn that includes Canarsie and Flatlands have earned the city's lowest cleanliness marks for the last three years, records show.
via Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Getting Physical – and Physics – on Playground
The new science-themed, student-designed playground at Public School/Middle School 394 in Crown Heights also will serve as a neighborhood park.
Turf War in City Parks
The city is re-examining using synthetic turf in parks amid fears of lead contamination and complaints about dangerously hot surfaces.
via The Villager
Tompkins Square Playground in Limbo
Some East Village residents are upset over what they call the slow pace of a playground overhaul project in Tompkins Square Park.