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New Yorkers for Parks

(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

50 Million Bucks to Make New York’s Parks Accessible Is Money Well Spent

We tend to undervalue park projects because we never got good at counting the benefits they can deliver.
By Alec Appelbaum
Stable owners Patrick and Cornelius Byrne and driver Ian McKeever protest with workers against the plan to curtail horse carriages (Photo: Will Bredderman for Observer).

De Blasio Carriage Horse Deal Ticks Everybody Off

Bill de Blasio's plan to cut the carriage horse industry by two-thirds and confine it to Central Park has advocates kicking and snorting.
By Will Bredderman and Jillian Jorgensen
A horse carriage. (Photo: DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)

De Blasio Defends Plan to Build Horse Carriage Stables in Central Park

Mayor Bill de Blasio isn't sure how much it will cost the city to build new horse stables in Central Park—but it will be worth the money.
By Jillian Jorgensen
Councilman Rory Lancman. (Photo: William Alatriste for NYC Council)

De Blasio Spars With Queens Councilman Over Flushing Meadows Park Plan

By Will Bredderman and Ross Barkan
Tupper Thomas

Tupper Thomas

By The Editors
Ms. Leicht will direct the New York and New Jersey region for HUD.

New Yorkers for Parks’ Holly Leicht Heads to HUD

By Kim Velsey
One of the dozens and dozens of mayoral forums.

Advocates Accuse Mayoral Hopefuls of Ignoring Major Issues

By Jill Colvin
A freak show of another sort. (Getty)

Coney Island Is Still Devastated, From the Boardwalk to the Neighborhood Parks

By Kit Dillon

El Barrio’s Secret Gardens: East Harlem Has Some Unexpected Parks, But It Still Needs Better Ones

By Matt Chaban
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