The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn,New York City. It was founded in 1910 using land from Mount Prospect Park in central Brooklyn,adjacent to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. The 52-acre (21 ha) garden holds over 14,000 taxa of plants and has nearly a million visitors each year. It includes a number of specialty "gardens within the Garden",plant collections,the Steinhardt Conservatory that houses the C. V. Starr Bonsai Museum,three climate-themed plant pavilions,a white cast-iron-and-glass aquatic plant house,and an art gallery.
Prospect Park is an urban park in Brooklyn,New York City. The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope,Prospect Heights,Prospect Lefferts Gardens,Flatbush,and Windsor Terrace,and is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum,Grand Army Plaza,and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. With an area of 526 acres (213 ha),Prospect Park is the second largest public park in Brooklyn,behind Marine Park.
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation,also called the Parks Department or NYC Parks,is the department of the government of New York City responsible for maintaining the city's parks system,preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas,and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's residents and visitors.
Forest Park is a park in the New York City borough of Queens,spanning 538 acres (218 ha). It is the tenth-largest park in New York City and the third-largest in Queens. Created on August 9,1895,it was originally referred to as Brooklyn Forest Park,as the area was part of Brooklyn at the time.
The Central Park Conservancy is a private,nonprofit park conservancy that manages Central Park under a contract with the City of New York and NYC Parks. The conservancy employs most maintenance and operations staff in the park. It effectively oversees the work of both the private and public employees under the authority of the publicly appointed Central Park administrator,who reports to the parks commissioner and the conservancy's president.
The Trust for Public Land is a U.S. nonprofit organization with a mission to "create parks and protect land for people,ensuring healthy,livable communities for generations to come". Since its founding in 1972,the Trust for Public Land has completed 5,000 park-creation and land conservation projects across the United States,protected over 3 million acres,and helped pass more than 500 ballot measures—creating $70 billion in voter-approved public funding for parks and open spaces. The Trust for Public Land also researches and publishes authoritative data about parks,open space,conservation finance,and urban climate change adaptation. Headquartered in San Francisco,the organization is among the largest U.S. conservation nonprofits,with approximately 30 field offices across the U.S.,including a federal affairs function in Washington,D.C.
Henry Jordan Stern was a member of the New York City Council from 1974 to 1983 and appointed as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation from 1983 to 1990 and again from 1994 to 2000.
Highland Park is a park located in Brooklyn,New York City,on the border with Queens. Established in 1901,Highland Park borders Cypress Hills,Brooklyn—part of the East New York neighborhood—to its south,and it abuts Glendale and Ridgewood,Queens,to its north.
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation maintains a unit of full-time and seasonal uniformed officers who enforce parks department rules and regulations,as well as New York State laws within the jurisdiction of New York City parks. Established in 1981,NYC Parks Enforcement Patrol officers patrol on foot,bicycle,horseback,and in marked vehicles. Parks Enforcement officers are responsible for protecting NYC Park land,waterways under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks and Recreation,city owned monuments,and public pools. PEP officers additionally act as the Parks’ambassadors.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a four-acre (1.6 ha) memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address. It is located in New York City at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island,in the East River between Manhattan Island and Queens. It was originally designed by the architect Louis Kahn in 1974,but funds were only secured for groundbreaking in 2010 and completion in 2012.
Mitchell J. Silver is the former commissioner for the New York City Parks Department. Appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio,he assumed office May 2014,and led the department until his resignation in July 2021. He was president of the American Planning Association (APA) between 2011 and 2013,the first African American to hold the title.
There are over 50 farmer's markets in New York City in all boroughs,which operate under GrowNYC under the "Greenmarket" name. GrowNYC's food hub,"Greenmarket",includes Greenmarket Co.,Youthmarket,Fresh Food Box,and the Wholesale Greenmarket under its programming. Greenmarket farmers market aims to encourage regional agriculture by allowing small family farms to sell their locally grown fruits,vegetables,flowers,dairy and other products,so that people in New York of all incomes and in all parts,have access to the fresh,nutritious,provincial,affordable and sustainable goods.
St. Mary's Park is a public park in the Mott Haven neighborhood in the South Bronx section of the Bronx,New York City. The park has sporting facilities and an indoor recreation center.
Judge Moses Weinstein Playground is a 3.25-acre triangular park located in the Kew Gardens Hills neighborhood of Queens,New York City.
The Harriet Tubman Memorial,also known as Swing Low,located in Manhattan in New York City,honors the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The intersection at which it stands was previously a barren traffic island,and is now known as "Harriet Tubman Triangle". As part of its redevelopment,the traffic island was landscaped with plants native to New York and to Tubman's home state of Maryland,representing the land which she and her Underground Railroad passengers travelled across.
Susannah Drake is a practicing architect and landscape architect who specializes in addressing contemporary social and environmental issues through design.
Community gardens in New York City are urban green spaces created and cared for by city residents who steward the often underutilized land. There are over 550 community gardens on city property,over 745 school gardens,over 100 gardens in land trusts,and over 700 gardens at public housing developments throughout New York City. The community garden movement in NYC began in the Lower East Side during the disrepair of the 1960s on vacant,unused land. These first gardens were tended without governmental permission or assistance.
Lynden B. Miller is an author,an advocate for public parks and gardens,and a garden designer,best known for her restoration of the Conservatory Garden in New York’s Central Park,completed in 1987.
The land comprising New York City holds approximately 5.2 million trees and 168 different tree species,as of 2020. The New York City government,alongside an assortment of environmental organizations,actively work to plant and maintain the trees. As of 2020,New York City held 44,509 acres of urban tree canopy with 24% of its land covered in trees.
