Neighborhood Effects: People and Organizations that Make Parks Better

A Mobile Workshop/Self-Guided Tour—Organized by the Environmental Committee NYMetro APA

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Getting Started
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Bryant Park
Central Park
High Line
Riverbank State Park
Union Square Park

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Steps to Completing this Workshop

A. CHOOSE FOUR parks to study out of the six parks featured here.
B. Click on each park you have chosen in the menu at top of this page. READ the overview and LISTEN to the featured podcasts.
C. VISIT each park. Note: You may want to choose at least one podcast to listen to while at the park.
D. Try the self-test QUIZ on the extra info page connected to each park page.
E. MEET the podcast narrators and join others who have completed this mobile workshop at an evening reception, MONDAY, May 8 at 5:30 p.m. at O’Reilly’s pub on 54 W 31st St, New York, NY

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Central Park

In Central Park visitors are asked to consider the issue of new and planned tall towers that cast shadows on the park. Elizabeth Goldstein, of The Municipal Art Society, narrates a podcast describing her organization’s “Accidental Skyline Project” which offers predictive tools and analysis as well as pointing the way to solutions.

Riverbank State Park

Riverbank State Park is one of three state parks in Manhattan and one of the top five most visited of all New York State parks. In the story of this park’s origins we also find one of the most important case studies of environmental justice of the last half-century. Visitors are welcomed to this park and given the details of that case study by podcast narrator Cecil Corbin-Mark, Deputy Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice.

Union Square Park

Visitors to Union Square Park will consider this site as a hub for sustainable urban living. Among other things, Union Square became the place where New Yorkers proved composting is practical even for apartment dwellers. Speakers for these podcasts are Christine Datz Romero, the co-founder and President of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, and Renee Crowley, Project Manager of the NYC Compost Project at LESEC.

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Visitors to the Brooklyn Bridge Park will hear Nancy Webster, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and author of the recently released book A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park explain unique challenges and qualities of a waterfront park as well as the special collaboration that helped create this haven at the water's edge.

The High Line

An old elevated rail line once slated for removal, the High Line linear park is today the second most visited tourist site (per sq. ft.) in New York City, after Times Square. Visitors will hear from Erik Botsford, Department of City Planning, about the role of zoning in ensuring the park's success.

Bryant Park

Visitors to Bryant Park will hear the voice of Dan Biederman, founder and President of the Bryant Park Corporation, explaining the management and funding techniques that help the BID ensure the ongoing success of the park. Photo: Playing the Scandinavian game of Kubb at the park.

Welcome and Overview
Getting Started
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Bryant Park
Central Park
High Line
Riverbank State Park
Union Square Park

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