Park advocacy groups are urging New York City’s mayoral candidates to commit to a long-term plan for the city’s green spaces after years of what they call chronic underinvestment.

New Yorkers for Parks (NY4P) and the 400-member Play Fair for Parks Coalition recently launched their new Parks 2030 platform: a guide to help mayoral candidates understand how they could develop and improve the city’s 30,000+ acres of parkland.

Mayor Eric Adams has failed to fulfill his promise of allocating 1% of the budget to parks, so advocacy groups have developed a roadmap for the next administration to strengthen NYC parks. Parks 2030 urged the city to reverse decades of underinvestment in the parks system and promote building a climate-resilient park network by 2030.

Adam Ganser, executive director of

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