Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report Great people make great parks Letter from the Executive Director A family playing in Devoe Park in the Bronx

With the myriad of challenges facing We are honored to work with incred- our efforts in three main areas: the world today, protecting our city's ible partners, from nascent community research and policy, convening, and parks and open spaces is more import- groups and individuals to large con- community engagement. The ground- ant than ever. These are the spaces that servancies, to ensure that local spaces work and early implementation of the allow communities to come together, remain treasured for years to come. Business Plan in Fiscal Year 2018 set celebrate culture, exercise, relax, play, It is dedicated volunteers, hardwork- the stage for NY4P to broaden our experience nature, and engage civically. ing peer organizations, and generous reach and deepen our impact to supporters who are the true parks ensure meaningful, lasting change. New Yorkers for Parks (NY4P) brings champions. With the help of all of together local advocates and park these partners, we have expanded our From pocket parks to athletic fields and enthusiasts from across the city to work programming and reach. Our new Open playgrounds, public plazas to street tree towards safe, equitable, and well-main- Space Dialogues panel series brought beds and community gardens: parks and tained parks and open spaces citywide. together over 300 industry experts and open spaces are the soul of our city. During fiscal year 2018, NY4P expanded community advocates to discuss open In an ever-densifying urban metropolis, our team to increase our capacity, col- space challenges. Our advocate network these spaces are essential to the thriv- laborated with elected officials, launched reached out to 70% of the City Council ing, vibrant city we all know and love. a redesigned website, and brought more this summer to save 150 essential park people together through new initiatives workers and gardener positions that Thank you to all of the parks support- and events. This work reflects our vision would have been cut from the City ers who are with us in this work. for greater parks equity in NYC: that budget. The Daffodil Project, celebrating all residents, in all neighborhoods, have its 16th year, saw a record number of Go parks! access to quality parks and open spaces. registrations and brought over 450,000 free bulbs to individuals and community What makes NY4P unique, and groups in all five boroughs. Sincerely, what we find important to recognize, Lynn B. Kelly is that our impact is greater than the In an ever-evolving city, we know sum of our parts. The success of the importance of being agile and our initiatives, both longstanding responsive to change, which is why we and new, is a testament to the embarked on a comprehensive business love that New Yorkers have for planning process. The resulting Five Year their parks and open spaces. Business Plan reflects the input of a variety of stakeholders and focuses

2 ✿ NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS WE SHARED WE GREW our data and resources with 1,70 0 17,000+ more people got to know New Yorkers us this year

WE EDUCATED WE EMPOWERED Over 900 more than people came to our 26,000 workshops, trainings, Daffodil Project volunteers and webinars across all five boroughs

WE ENGAGED WE UNITED 17,000+ Special thanks to our kids participated in 50+ daffodil plantings citywide partner organizations

FISCAL YEAR 2018 ANNUAL REPORT ❁ 3 We shared our data and resources DATA-DRIVEN RESEARCH remains a staple of our support of parks and open spaces for all neighborhoods. By developing engaging, with New informative reports and resources, both in print and online, NY4P ensures that all New Yorkers have the ACCESS AND UNDERSTANDING Yorkers TO APPLY THIS DATA to their communities.

New Reports Analyzed Providing Training and Open Space in Brownsville Sharing our Knowledge & the South Bronx We presented research and shared We released two new Open Space resources with larger and broader Index reports simultaneously for the audiences at several events in partner- first time in the history of the Open ship with national organizations. In July Space Index. These reports, produced of 2017, Executive Director Lynn Kelly by NY4P since 2010, paint a picture of spoke on a panel at the City Parks Alli- current open space conditions at the ance’s “Greener & Greater” conference neighborhood level and pose recom- in Minneapolis, sharing how to create mendations to improve conditions in parks advocacy organizations with an the future. Each report measures a international audience of parks advo- neighborhood’s status on 14 New York cates and professionals. In February City-specific goals. We concluded that we participated in the Bronx Parks the neighborhoods of Brownsville in Speak Up, holding a workshop to train Brooklyn and the parts of the Bronx and guide groups to record their own covered by the Southern Boulevard park usage data. Our staff reached neighborhood study area have insuffi- conference attendees and advocates at cient parkland and unacceptable park this and other local events throughout conditions. After months of collecting the year, including the annual Making data, collaborating with community and agencies might increase and Brooklyn Bloom and NYCHA Grows groups, and conducting on-the-ground improve open space in these commu- With Its Gardeners Conference, and research and outreach, we found that nities. The recommendations reflect presented at workshops convened by Brownsville failed 10 of the 14 open needs voiced by each local community: Partnerships for Parks. In June, our space goals, while Southern Boulevard supporting the community’s plan for Director of Outreach and Programs failed 11 of the 14 goals. When Crotona changes to local expressways in South- moderated a City Parks Alliance Park, a 127-acre park located at the ern Boulevard, and increasing active webinar on budget advocacy for park northwestern point of the study area, programming in parks in Brownsville, maintenance. We are also regularly is included, Southern Boulevard still among others. invited by various community groups fails 8 goals. The reports offer action- to provide trainings on our materials able recommendations about how and data collection methods, including local advocates, elected officials, The Point CDC and the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance.

4 ✿ NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS Through new convening and community engagement initiatives, WE ARE BROADENING OUR REACH AND EMPOWERING MORE NEW YORKERS TO BECOME PARKS AND OPEN SPACE ADVOCATES. Boro x Boro Meeting at Brooklyn Borough Hall, April 2018 We united park and open space advocates Open Space Dialogues: in all boroughs A New Perspective on Delivery, February 2018

The Public Realm Bill of 2017 Election Campaign Open Space Dialogues Rights for New York City We organized a Parks Policy Platform NY4P launched the Open Space NY4P: Boro x Boro 2018 for the 2017 City Council and Mayoral Dialogues series with support from From February through May, we held elections based on our Public Realm Bill The Rockefeller Foundation, bring- our third annual NY4P: Boro x Boro of Rights to build a more uniform voice ing industry and community experts series, bringing together over 190 in support of NYC’s diverse inventory together in panel discussions from community groups and individuals of parks and open spaces. Working October 2017 through April 2018. We representing all corners of the city. This with a campaign consulting firm, we sought to raise the bar on the conver- year, each borough’s meeting focused developed a detailed campaign roadmap sation around parks and open spaces on turning park improvement ideas for the 2017 City Council and Mayoral as they pertain to rezonings across the into action steps, centered around elections and created a framework for city. The four-panel series included dis- the articles of our Public Realm Bill future campaigns to ensure that parks cussions on the value of open space, as of Rights for New York City. We also and open spaces are on the agendas well as how it relates to the design and provided time for networking and of elected officials and candidates. development process, implementation, getting to know fellow neighborhood The campaign structure allowed us to and delivery. The panels featured varied park advocates. The series culminated reach across districts and help bring perspectives, from parks conservan- in our annual citywide meeting, which parks and open space issues into the cies, government officials, real estate brought together advocates from all conversation during the election. As developers, and community advocates, five boroughs to listen to the key- part of our campaign, we inquired of as well as other industry professionals. note speaker, City Council Member candidates’ commitments to parks and With a reach of over 300 participants Barry Grodenchik, Chair of the Parks open space issues with questionnaires in-person and online, the series grew Committee. We reflected on our action in August and October 2017 which in popularity over time. To cap off the steps and identified the roles our local received dozens of responses, includ- project in June, in collaboration with elected officials can play in assisting us. ing many candidates for City Council, our project partner, WXY architecture We compiled and shared Boro x Boro Comptroller, and Mayor. Because we + urban design, NY4P released Open At-A-Glance, articulating a vision of reached out to every candidate, the Space Dialogues: A New Perspective, a what’s most important to New York campaign helped NY4P leverage exist- public-facing document summarizing park advocates from the individuals and ing connections to gain more attention the findings and next steps from community groups who participated. from City Council members as the this panel series. go-to-organization for parks and open space data and networking.

FISCAL YEAR 2018 ANNUAL REPORT ❁ 5 Bronx youth at SWALE in Concrete Plant Park

We facilitate communication between elected We engaged officials and local parks advocates, a critical piece of our work ADVOCATING AND INFORMING ABOUT elected officials PARKS AND OPEN SPACES in New York City.

Council Member Meetings Standing Side by Side NY4P has gone on the record multiple To affect change and profoundly shape with Park Advocates times requesting that NYS DOT study policy around NYC’s parks and open Marx Brothers Playground the community-based ramp location spaces, we set out to meet with as in East Harlem in their DEIS. many New York City Council members Jointly Operated Playgrounds (JOPs) as possible to improve our ability to represent 37% of all current NYC Parks SAVING 150 CITY do this work. We met with 12 Council playgrounds, and have become essential PARK WORKERS AND Members representing New York City’s open space assets in the five boroughs. GARDENERS POSITIONS five boroughs, including the majority of However, the City has assigned Marx In June 2018 we urged our the members of the Parks Committee. Brothers Playground transferrable network to write directly to their We shared data and strengthened development rights as part of a project City Council members to preserve relationships to inform the Council led by the State’s Educational Construc- 150 essential park workers and members of the parks and open space tion Fund. This is unprecedented for gardener positions for the coming challenges and initiatives in their dis- parkland and is worrisome for the other fiscal year that were in danger of trict. These new relationships resulted 267 JOPs citywide. NY4P collaborated being cut from the City’s budget. in collaborations for our events and with the Municipal Art Society and the Our network reached 70% of all programs, with multiple Council Mem- Trust for Public Land to submit letters City Council members, resulting bers planning to host Daffodil Project to Governor Cuomo urging him to veto in the Council’s approval of the distribution sites in fall 2018. Addition- the alienation. The decision is currently $9.6 million required to fund these ally, Council Member Barry Grodenchik, being reviewed by the State, and we positions for another year. Chair of the Parks Committee, often continue to closely monitor this issue. called on us directly for data and infor- mation relating to current parks issues. Sheridan Expressway Ramps Through this direct line to the Parks in the South Bronx Committee Chair we connected more The Hunts Point Interstate Access local advocates with his office and Improvement Project proposes a more effectively shared our resources reconfiguration of a truck access ramp, on timely issues. which community members believe will impede park access and endanger local pedestrians. NYS DOT has refused to evaluate the community-proposed alternative ramp location in the Draft NY4P Director of Research and Policy Environmental Impact Study (DEIS). encourages review of community ramp proposal for Sheridan Expressway ramps at a press conference in March 2018

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THE DAFFODIL PROJECT CELEBRATED 16 YEARS of providing free bulbs to volunteers and community groups – cultivating new park stewards and We empowered beautifying communities. more than 26,000 Daffodil Project volunteers across all five boroughs Daffodil Project distribution at Union Square

16 Years of The 2018 DAFFODIL Daffodil Project BREAKFAST Founded in 2001 as a living memorial HONOREES to the lives lost on September 11th, The Lynden B. Miller The Daffodil Project remains one of Citywide Award Recipient the largest volunteer efforts in the New York Edge (formerly Sports city’s history. The 2017 Daffodil Project and Arts in Schools Foundation) season had a record number of bulb requests, and we distributed 450,000 BOROUGH DAFFODIL daffodil bulbs to individuals and com- AWARD RECIPIENTS munity groups in all five boroughs. To date, we have brought over 7 million Bronx: Friends of Soundview Park daffodils to public spaces across New “Here at P.S. 59 we are grateful Brooklyn: Friends of Carroll Park York City, with the help of over 100,000 for the Daffodil Project because volunteers, from young students to it has allowed our students to Manhattan: The Friends of the Adam corporate groups. This year we launched not just plant a bulb on school Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard Malls a new partnership with New York Edge, grounds and beautify our green an organization providing after-school spaces – it has allowed them Queens: Astoria Park Alliance activities for underprivileged students. to connect to a larger group Staten Island: PS59 PTA The Harbor- Through this collaboration we held of volunteers.” view School: The Harbor Learning plantings at five different schools – one FRIZZI-LILIAN LINCK, Garden/Green Thumb Committee in each borough – engaging more than P.S. 59 Harborview School PTA 80 students in planting over 1,000 bulbs in their schoolyards and gardens.

❁ 2018 Daffodil Breakfast Honorees and their guests FISCAL YEAR 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 7 We expanded our Con Edison volunteers planted resources and partnerships hundreds of daffodil bulbs at Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side

New Website Design A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR New York City Council In an effort to make our resources MANY PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS THIS YEAR! New York City Community more accessible, we launched a new Garden Coalition Banana Kelly CIA website in the winter of 2018. The new, NYC & Company The Battery mobile-friendly design ensures that NYC Department of City Planning Berlin Rosen our growing network can easily access NYC Department of Transportation BIG Reuse our resources in a simplified, visual New York City Economic and engaging way. Since the launch, we Blackspace Development Corporation average 300 more visitors per month. BJH Advisors New York Edge Here’s some of what our new website Brooklyn Borough President’s Office New York City Housing Authority has to offer: Brooklyn Public Library NYC Parks • Improve Your Park – find all of Bronx Community Health Network New York Law School our advocacy tools in one easy to Bronx River Alliance New York League of access place, including webinars Conservation Voters Brownsville Community • Translated content – learn more Justice Center New York Restoration Project about parks advocacy in your native B. Sessions Law North Brooklyn Parks Alliance language: English, Spanish and City Parks Alliance The Participatory Budgeting Project simplified Chinese Clinton Housing Development Partnerships for Parks • Interactive Research Library – Corporation personalize the filters to sort The Point CDC Design Trust for Public Space through NY4P’s more than 85 Red Hook Conservancy Downtown Alliance reports and resources for areas Rockaway Waterfront Alliance El Puente in all five boroughs South Bronx Unite Friends of Brownsville Parks The Southern Bronx River GreenThumb Watershed Alliance Grow to Learn NYC Times Square Alliance Hudson River Park Trust Transportation Alternatives Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects The Trust for Public Land Mothers Out Front Urby The Municipal Art Society of New York Waterfront Alliance Natural Areas Conservancy We Run Brownsville National Parks of New York Harbor WXY architecture + urban design Neighborhood Plaza Partnership The Whelan Group …and many more! 8 ✿ NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS We’re evolving to meet the needs of Crotona Park, the Bronx an ever- NY4P has exciting initiatives lined up changing for fiscal year 2019. Here’s a sneak peak city of what’s on the horizon:

Leon Levy Fellows for Park Peers Meetings traditional public spaces and parks; Great Parks Building on the success and increased active uses and recreation in parks; With the generous support of the interest in our convening projects, and open space access in communities Leon Levy Foundation, we are excited we will to host a series of Park Peers of color. to launch a new fellowship program: Meetings from winter 2018 through the Leon Levy Fellows for Great Parks. spring 2019. Made possible by the Ford Open Space Index Reports This nine-month fellowship program is Foundation, this new set of conven- in Three Neighborhoods designed to spur the development of ings will provide a fresh approach to Building on our recent research, young adults interested in parks and coalition-building within and across the we plan to complete Open Space Index environment-related careers. It will five boroughs, based on specific tiers summary reports for three new neigh- provide hands-on field experience as of groups working within the larger borhoods: Bushwick, Brooklyn; Long well as mentoring and career-building parks equity conversation: from small Island City, Queens; and the Bay Street opportunities for young profession- hyper-local stewardship groups, to Corridor of Staten Island. Each of these als, while simultaneously growing our newly-formed borough-wide organiza- neighborhoods is at a critical stage in capacity as an organization. In its inau- tions and alliances, nascent local parks its potential redevelopment where our gural year we have hired one Research advocate organizations, and more data and expertise can have a strong & Policy fellow, and hope to expand the tenured conservancies and alliances. impact in shaping policy on local parks program in the years ahead. and open spaces. Committed to push- Open Space Dialogues ing back early and often with good data, Fight for Light Initiative Continues NY4P is accelerating the release of In summer 2018, we partnered with After the success of our first year these three reports in order to the Municipal Art Society to develop of Open Space Dialogues that saw meet the increasing demand from a citywide Fight for Light Initiative, more than 300 participants in-person local advocates for quality data and ensuring that strong safeguards are put and online, we are launching a second technical support. in place to protect the light and air that series in partnership with New York is so essential to the vitality and health Law School. This series will feature five Big News Coming Soon of New York City’s open spaces and panels from October 2018 through NY4P is collaborating on a streets. This multi-year initiative will April 2019, free for a live audience multi-year parks budget advocacy establish a framework for new policies and accompanied by livestreams and campaign for 2019…stay tuned! for New York City, make specific rec- recorded video available online. Future ommendations, and launch a campaign topics may include a variety of issues, to have them enacted, informed by a such as the intersection of parks and task force of experts from many transportation; the creation of non- disciplines and areas of focus.

FISCAL YEAR 2018 ANNUAL REPORT ❁ 9 We are grateful for our generous supporters

New York University Above left: 2017 Party 4 Parks: Lynn Kelly with our NYC & Company, Inc Honoree, Doug Blonsky Donors Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Gifts made July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018 Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Inc. Above: NY4P Bronx Ambassador Nilka Martell gives remarks at the 2017 Party 4 Parks May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. $100,000+ Joseph & Diane Steinberg Booth Ferris Foundation Fern & Michael Thomas Michel Costes Two Trees Management Co LLC $50,000–$99,999 Anthony Crowell Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP Anonymous Norma T. Dana Altman Foundation Gordon J. Davis $5,000–$9,999 Brookfield Place Susan Donoghue Big Bucket LLC The Charina Endowment Fund, Inc. Frances & David Eberhart Suzanne Cochran Citi Audrey & Harvey Feuerstein The Cowles Charitable Trust Ford Foundation Forest City Ratner Companies David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation Edward C. Wallace/Greenberg Traurig LLP Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson William S. Friedman Antonia & George Grumbach The Georgetown Company Mr. Mark Gallogly & Ms. Elizabeth Strickler The J. M. Kaplan Fund Catherine Morrison Golden Suzanne and Phillip C. Handal The Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. Foundation Meg & Bennett Goodman Family Foundation The Hyde and Watson Foundation Greater New York Insurance Company Leon Levy Foundation $25,000–$49,999 Michael and Nadine Grobstein Donald B. Marron Charitable Trust Bloomberg Philanthropies Eloise Hirsh Lynden B. & Leigh M. Miller Con Edison Company of New York, Inc. Cas Holloway Marjorie Rosen Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP Christine Iacovone Joel Steinhaus Paul R. Gottsegen J&AR Foundation Stober/Lafer Family Fund Mark Jackson Diana L. Taylor $10,000–$24,999 John N. Blackman Sr. Foundation Anonymous (2) Kasirer Consulting LLC $1,000–$4,999 The Bulova Stetson Fund Peter L. Kohnstamm Anonymous Central Park Conservancy Sheila Labrecque AECOM Technology Corporation Delta Air Lines Jenny Lawrence American Museum of Natural History Andrea H. Fahnestock The Litwin Foundation, Inc. Fred Bachman Gilder Foundation Carol Loewenson & Andrew Levander Douglas Blonsky Greenacre Foundation Heather Lubov BYC Projects Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc Richard and Ronay Menschel Susan Calhoun Moss Robin & Mark Hoenig Eugene Mercy James F. Capalino IAC Morgan Stanley Deirdre Carson The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Maureen Mulheren Charina Foundation Peter L. Malkin Mr. and Mrs. Henry Christensen III

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10 ✿ NEW YORKERS FOR PARKS James Nederlander New Yorkers for Parks Philip Pitruzzello Red Stone Equity Partners FY 2018 Operating Report Phyllis Reich Ann R. Roberts FY 2018 OPERATING REVENUE Total Percentage Lynn Cole & Ian Rosenblum ● Foundations $ 542,926 43% Signature Bank ● Corporations 95,557 8% Strong Foundation of New York ● Individuals/Family Foundations 133,523 10% Tupper Thomas ● Special Events (net) 464,887 37% Bradley Tusk ● Organizations 17,091 1% Darrell Gay & Carmen Walker-Gay ● Government 500 0% Elizabeth B. Webster ● Other $ 13,933 1% The Whelan Group Madelyn and Steven Wils Fund FY 2018 OPERATING EXPENSES Total Percentage ● $500–$999 Community Outreach and Advocacy $ 201,676 14% AllianceBernstein ● Research and Planning 214,438 15% Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin S. Baxt ● Rezoning Analysis and Engagement 154,383 11% Adrian Benepe & Charlotte Glasser ● Daffodil Project 147,528 10% Veronica Bulgari ● Public Information and Communication 139,362 10% Ann L. Buttenwieser ● Business Plan 160,412 11% Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP ● Management & General 177,864 13% Robert Catell ● Fundraising $ 234,945 16% Ellen J. Chesler & Matthew J. Mallow CM&F Group, Inc. Elizabeth A. Cooke Levy Paul & Paulette Cushman $250–$499 New York Building Congress Samara Daly Anonymous Travis Noyes Jon Del Giorno Frederick W. Beinecke The Prospect Hill Foundation Christian DiPalermo - CDD Strategies Alan Bell & Elisa Barnes Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Barbara S. Dixon Bloomberg LP Thomas Russo & Georgina Russo Phyllis Feder The Blum Family Foundation Julie and Nick Sakellariadis Elizabeth Goldstein Richard & Janet Bussert Josie Sandler Robert Hammond Ann O. Buttrick Linda Beech & Tom Schueller The Joelson Foundation Jane R. Crotty Mr. & Mrs. Warren L. Serenbetz Lynn B. Kelly Margaret A. Doyle & Andrew W. Capitman Kirsten Shaw Starling R. Lawrence Edison Properties, LLC Lalitte C. Smith Holly Leicht Wendy E. Feuer Solid State Consulting, Inc. Susan Lowry Gerald & Marion Galison Claudia Thompson Madison Square Park Conservancy Elizabeth Greenstein Coralie S. Toevs Alison Martier Kamillah M. Hanks Mai-Anh Tran Gifford Miller Laura Hansen Bethany Wall Marshall & Gail Miller Jessica Hatch Emily L. Watson Gillian Miniter Sara Hobel Robin and Ted Weinstein New York Road Runners Robert L. Hoguet, III Edward B. Whitney Susan Newman and Lew Wyman Jennifer M. Hoppa Paul Willen Louise Parent & John Casaly Steven Jacobs Betsy Smith Liam Kavanagh IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS Alan E. Steel Florence M. Kelly Greenberg Traurig, LLP Walentas Foundation Ltd Sarah Kovner IAC Susan L. West Jay L. Kriegel Pentagram Julie Wood Eric Latzky Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Mary N. Young Ethan Miller Zipcar Lloyd Zuckerberg Regina Myer 168 DONORS OF UP TO $249

FISCAL YEAR 2018 ANNUAL REPORT ❁ 11 The Arthur Ross Center BOARD OF DIRECTORS EMERITUS DIRECTORS for Parks and Open Spaces Joel Steinhaus, Chair Ann L. Buttenwieser 55 Broad Street, 23rd Floor Mark Hoenig, Secretary Ellen Chesler New York, NY 10004 Fern Thomas, Treasurer Barbara S. Dixon (212) 838-9410 Barbara Fife www.ny4p.org Kate Collignon Richard Gilder Christopher Collins Michael Grobstein CONNECT WITH US! Margaret A. Doyle Ira M. Millstein @newyorkersforparks Audrey Feuerstein Philip R. Pitruzzello @ny4p Catherine Morrison Golden @ny4p Paul Gottsegen STAFF #DaffodilProject George J. Grumbach, Jr. Lynn B. Kelly Kyle Kimball Executive Director Mark Jackson Albert Laverge Gabriella Cappo Carol Loewenson Megan Douglas Lynden B. Miller Caitlin Mason Josh Moskowitz Sam Mei Patricia Ornst Lucy Robson Alan Steel Jack Tambini Edward C. Wallace Michelle Velez Emily Walker We would also like to Robin Weinstein recognize the following former board members for their As of December 5, 2018 longstanding commitment to New Yorkers for Parks: Luis Garden Acosta Milovan Blair Candace Damon Rick Gropper Suzanne Kennedy Carmen Walker-Gay

“New Yorkers for Parks speaks our language, knowing that street by street, block by block, community garden by community garden, park by park – we all work together for the same common purpose, which is to preserve open space.” AZIZ DEHKAN, Executive Director, New York City Community Garden Coalition

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