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Planyc 2011 Parks.Pdf Parks and Public Space Parks and Public Space Credit: Iwan Baan Together we can Target high impact projects in neighborhoods underserved by parks Create destination-level spaces for all types of recreation Re-imagine the public realm Promote and protect nature Ensure the long-term health of parks and public space Parks range from the simplest form for kids I think the playground [we designed] is great for to the most complex form like wetlands that little kids, teenagers, and senior citizens. I even have wildlife and rare species. You have saw my grandma reading at the playground. That constituencies that can enjoy all of these, makes me feel very happy to see people enjoying and it’s right here in our community. the school’s playground. Alex Zablocki // Staten Island Samantha Brito // Queens The New York Harbor is an untapped resource for New York’s creative community and their families. Over the past two summers, we’ve been fortunate to be able to host outdoor sporting challenges on the grassy lawns of Governors Island and engage I felt excited to help in the playground [design]. New Yorkers through a healthy series of activities. We are the ones who planned out the whole These public playgrounds enable us to keep our thing. People love this playground. I can tell sanity amidst all the chaos and hustle and bustle by a lot of people coming to the playground. of living in the city. Seana Edwin // Queens Khairi Mdnor // Manhattan A GREENER, GREATER NEW YORK PLANYC 33 Parks and Public Space For generations, parks have been among New including the historic investment in parks and Ensure all York’s most cherished forms of public infrastruc- public spaces made in 2007, heralded by the New Yorkers ture. From internationally-renowned flagship launch of PlaNYC. parks such as Central and Prospect Parks, to live within a neighborhood playgrounds, to emerging recre- Because the supply of vacant land and capital ational areas on our waterfront, parks provide budgets are both finite, creating new parks will 10-minute vital public spaces for New Yorkers. All together, require creative new strategies. We will con- our city boasts more than 52,000 acres of City, tinue to reuse unconventional sites such as Con- walk of a park state and federal parkland, representing 25% of crete Plant Park in the Bronx, where a former the city’s area. industrial concrete mixing plant has been trans- formed into a striking new waterfront park, or Parks and public space play indispensable roles the High Line, which transformed an abandoned in our neighborhoods. They provide places elevated freight rail line into one of Manhattan’s to exercise. They are community forums for star attractions. formal and informal interactions. They serve We must also work to protect the great invest- important ecological functions. They are also ment in parks and public spaces that we have an important catalyst for economic develop- made. The long-term health of our parks and ment, raising property values and breathing life public spaces requires continued maintenance, into neighborhoods. stewardship, and attention. Despite parks’ importance, over two million New We have made substantial progress. Since 2007, Yorkers still live more than a 10-minute walk from we have improved access to parks and public one. And the need for a variety of parks and space, ensuring more than a quarter million public space will only become more acute as more New Yorkers live within a 10-minute walk of our population increases. As New Yorkers’ rec- a park. This new wave of construction includes reation interests grow to include cricket pitches almost 180 Schoolyards to Playgrounds sites and kayak launches, we must also make sure our and nearly 260 Greenstreets. Construction has parks evolve. begun on four of eight new destination parks. We have planted over 430,000 new trees. To respond to this growing demand for more parks and public space, we have embarked on But simply having access to parks is not enough; what has become New York’s third great era of the type and quality of parks and public space park building. The first era began in the second matter as well. To accommodate our diverse half of the 19th century, when Frederick Law open space needs, we have begun to re-imag- Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux designed ine what the public space outside of parks can over 1,900 acres of city parkland including be, as well as design sustainable, high-perfor- our most iconic open space, Central Park. The mance open spaces that have the potential to second great era began with the appointment enhance ecosystems. of Robert Moses as City Parks Commissioner in 1934. Taking advantage of New Deal funding, he more than doubled park acreage in the city. But Our Plan in the 1970s, our parks were poorly maintained. Dangerous and unkempt, they lay neglected. In To meet the quality and access needs of all New 1981, Mayor Edward Koch started a turnaround Yorkers, we must continue to improve our exist- with a capital plan to rebuild our system. In the ing parks, identify new opportunities to trans- last 10 years, we have accelerated our progress form underutilized sites throughout the city, and into the third great era of parks transformation, enhance stewardship of our public space. 34 PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACE We will target high-impact projects in the neigh- borhoods with the greatest open space needs. These projects will include community gardens and urban agriculture opportunities, which enrich many of the city’s neighborhoods least served by parks. We will continue to create and renovate parks such as Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn and Soundview Park in the Bronx that will attract people from all over the city. We will reconceptualize and green our streets. And because vibrant open spaces both need and support biodiversity, we will increase the Escaping the heat at Sweetgum Playground in the Bronx Credit: NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation/Daniel Avila health and vitality of natural areas. Finally, we will ensure the long-term health of our open spaces and protect the great investments we have made We will create a scorecard that will use a be maintained over the long term and strategi- through expanded stewardship and care. weighted system across selected criteria, cally target our limited dollars where they get including demographic data, environmental the highest return. Collectively, we estimate that by 2030 we will factors, physical condition, community need acquire or upgrade more than 4,700 acres of and support, and conformity with the goals of We will also use new methods for assessing parkland and public space throughout the five programs like PlaNYC. It will take into account New Yorkers’ distance from parks, looking at boroughs. By 2030, every New Yorker will live funding needs for ongoing maintenance and the street network and actual access routes to a within a 10-minute walk of a park. seek to increase partnerships with local com- park instead of simply looking at distance as the munity groups for stewardship. These criteria crow flies. Target high-impact will help us gauge how well the investment will projects in neighborhoods underserved by parks Our plan for parks and public space: In many of the neighborhoods most in need of parks and public space, there are schoolyards, Target high impact projects in neighborhoods underserved by parks lightly-trafficked streets, vacant lots, and athletic 1 Create tools to identify parks and public space priority areas fields that have not realized their full potential. Through targeted investments that use existing 2 Open underutilized spaces as playgrounds or part-time public spaces land better, these spaces can become valuable 3 Facilitate urban agriculture and community gardening community resources. 4 Continue to expand usable hours at existing sites , high-value projects such as Schoolyards to Create destination-level spaces for all types of recreation Playgrounds have been vital in increasing access to usable parks and public spaces close to where 5 Create and upgrade flagship parks people live. We must identify the next genera- 6 Convert former landfills into public space and parkland tion of these projects and where they should be 7 Increase opportunities for water-based recreation located. Re-imagine the public realm INITIATIVE 1 8 Activate the streetscape Create tools to identify parks and 9 Improve collaboration between City, state, and federal partners public space priority areas 10 Create a network of green corridors Challenging economic times and the demands of Promote and protect nature an increasing population require that we make 11 Plant one million trees the most out of our funding for parks and public space projects. To do this, we need new tools for 12 Conserve natural areas assessing new project proposals. 13 Support ecological connectivity Ensure the long-term health of parks and public space 14 Support and encourage stewardship 15 Incorporate sustainability through the design and maintenance of all public space A GREENER, GREATER NEW YORK PLANYC 35 6gZVhL^i]^cV&%"B^cjiZLVa`d[VEVg` 6G:6L>I=>C&%"B>CJI:L6A@D;E6G@>C'%%, 6G:6L>I=>C&%"B>CJI:L6A@699:9H>C8:'%%, 6G:6CDIL>I=>C&%"B>CJI:L6A@D;E6G@ A6C9;>AAH!6>GEDGIH6G:6H:MA8J9:9;GDB6C6ANH>H HdjgXZ/CN89Zei#d[EVg`hVcYGZXgZVi^dc 6gZVhL^i]^cV&%"B^cjiZLVa`d[VEVg` =^\]"KVajZ!Adl"8Ve^iVaEgd_ZXih 8jggZcianJcYZglVndg8dbeaZiZY More than 1,000 community gardens exist in the city. More than 600 are on sites maintained by 6G:6L>I=>C&%"B>CJI:L6A@D;E6G@>C'%%, 6HE=6AIIDIJG; the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), 76AA;>:A9A><=I>C< and nearly 500 are registered with the City’s 6G:6L>I=>C&%"B>CJI:L6A@699:9H>C8:'%%, EA6O6H GreenThumb program.
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