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How the Abandoned High Line Became a Glamorous Brand
A Shady Plan by the Mayor That’s Likely to Be Popular
Parks Department to Estimate Monetary Value of Trees
Public Advocate Calls for Testing of Turf in Parks
Partnerships for Parks
Neighborhood Open Space Coalition
New Yorkers for Parks
OASIS
Green Apple Map
Free Digger
Privately Owned Public Space
Regional Plan Association
by Witold Rybczynski
Inside City Parks
by Peter Harnik
Private Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience
by Jerold S. Kayden
Recommended Parks Links:
American Community Gardening Association
Americans for Our Heritage and Recreation
Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition
More information from a coalition of community groups that is working to create a Brooklyn waterfront park. The list of links is an excellent resource.
Car-Free Central Park Campaign
GreenThumb
New York City’s GreenThumb program has been supporting community gardens for more than 20 years with information, technical assistance, materials, and funding. Check the site for grants, events, information, and links to gardening organization and individual community garden web sites.
New York Restoration Project
A lively site from Bette Midler's group, which has been restoring parks in upper Manhattan and has helped save community gardens.
Privately Owned Public Space
New York City Department of City Planning study of the city's privately owned public spaces created through a zoning incentive.
Take a walk, New York
Sign up here for free one-hour guided walks in some of the city's great and far-flung parks and greenways, sponsored by the New York City Department of Health and the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition.
The Project for Public Spaces' Great Public Spaces
Reader Submissions / Others.
[Suggest a Parks link]
14th Street-Union Square
14th Street from First Avenue to Sixth Avenue and the area in and around Union Square Park