In today’s New York Times there is an article on the remodel of a community playground, but most important point is that Mayor Bill de Blasio is channelling $130 million into low-income community parks and an additional $36 million will pay for new infrastructure to prevent storm water runoff.
This park will rearrange the organization of amenities to better accommodate the health and happiness of the community; they will move the basketball courts to the center of the park where there will be less residual noise to affect apartment building tenants and move the playground away from the highway, which will hopefully decrease children’s exposure to fuel emissions–asthma is an issue in this area in the area. And lastly, the play structure and its foundation will be shades of blues and greens to evoke nature.
However, none of these plans will happen soon because the plans have not yet been submitted to the city’s public design commission and then to the parks department, but completion expected by 2017! See proposed plan in article photos.