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    Parks contests audit findings

    Department of Parks & Recreation  •  City Comptroller Audit  •  Citywide

    Parks agreed to implement only some of the Comptroller’s 22 recommendations. The City’s Department of Parks and Recreation solicits and awards concessions to operate golf courses, tennis courts, restaurants, and food carts on City parkland. Parks oversees about 500 concessions, and generally follows the competitive sealed bids and competitive sealed proposals processes. Revenue from these concessions equal more than half of Parks’ budget for Parks programs and services. Concession revenues in Fiscal Years 2008, 2009, and 2010 were $52.6 million, $46.1 million, and $39.8 million, respectively.  (more…)

    Tags : Department of Parks and Recreation
    Date: 02/15/2012
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    Sale of 4 closed FDNY firehouses sparks controversy

    City Planning Commission  •  Disposition of City Property  •  Manhattan/Brooklyn/Queens

    Mayor’s Office agrees to create community committees to find new users. On April 9, 2007, the Planning Commission approved four applications by DCAS to sell four closed firehouses in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. The plan sparked controversy with residents, community boards, Borough Presidents Scott Stringer and Marty Markowitz, and Council Members Bill de Blasio and David Yassky, who argued that their districts needed increased FDNY services and, if the firehouses remained closed, only a community service should replace the FDNY.

    With 136 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, closed by the City in 2003 for budgetary reasons, Markowitz and residents argued that increasing construction of Williamsburg and Greenpoint high-rises and the influx of new residents required increased FDNY services in the area. Similarly, Markowitz and Cobble Hill Brooklyn residents asked that any use of the former firehouse at 299 DeGraw Street be temporary only until the City, which closed the location in 2003, returns Engine Company 204 to that location. They argued that the need for FDNY services would increase significantly as denser development continued in Downtown Brooklyn and construction started at the Atlantic Yards. (more…)

    Tags : 120 East 125th Street, 136 Wythe Avenue, 299 DeGraw Street, 58-03 Rockaway Beach Boulevard
    Date: 05/15/2007
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    New Entrances to Prospect Park Completed

    Department of Parks & Recreation  •  Upgrades  •  Prospect Park, Brooklyn

    Image credit: NYC Department of Parks & Recreation.

    The entrances are part of a $40 million series of park improvement projects citywide. On January 27, 2021, the Parks Department cut the ribbon on two new completed entrances to Prospect Park along Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. The new entrances are the first additional entrances added to Prospect Park since the 1940’s. NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Vicki Been, Council Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo, Council Member Brad Lander, NY State Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon and Prospect Park Alliance President Sue Donoghue were present.  (more…)

    Tags : parks, Prospect Park, updates, upgrades
    Date: 01/29/2021
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    Landmarks Calendars Three Sites Amid Launch of Equity Framework

    Landmarks Preservation Commission  •  Calendaring  •  Citywide

    Holyrood Episcopal Church-Iglesia Santa Cruz, one of the three sites calendared by LPC on January 19th. Image Credit: LPC

    The Equity Framework aims to increase diversity in New York’s landmarks and work within the Landmarks Preservation Commission. On January 19, 2021, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar three sites for designation as part of the agency’s launch of an equity framework designed to better represent New York City’s diversity and underrepresented populations. The three sites calendared for proposed designation are the Conference House Park Archeological Site in Tottenville, Staten Island, the Holyrood Episcopal Church-Iglesia Santa Cruz in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and 70 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. They are all cultural or historic sites that represent different populations across New York’s history. (more…)

    Tags : calendaring
    Date: 01/27/2021
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    Housing development on Pier 5 allowed

    CityLaw  •  Parkland  •  Pier 5, Bronx

    Pier 5. Image Credit: Google Maps

    The City authorized Pier 5 on the Harlan River to be development for housing. The City acquired Pier 5 on the Harlem Riven, a 4.4 acre parcel of land in The Bronx, in 2006 during the $60 million renovation of Yankee Stadium and transferred control of the land to the Parks Department. Pier 5 is bounded on the north by Mill Pond Park, on the east by the Major Deegan Expressway, on the south by 149th Street. Parks fenced off Pier 5 and kept it closed for a most of the following ten years. Parks occasionally rented the land to private companies to host carnivals and small events. Between June 2013 and August 2014 Parks allowed the Bronx Council for Environment Quality to collect air quality data and to conduct environmental experiments on Pier 5. The Council permitted members of the public to come on the land for educational and research purposes. Ultimately Parks allowed the Department of Transportation to use Pier 5 for equipment storage. (more…)

    Tags : CityLaw, housing construction, Parkland, Piers
    Date: 01/09/2021
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