{"id":154069,"date":"2026-03-05T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154069\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:30:06","slug":"mayor-zohran-mamdani-announces-19-5m-for-bronx-park-upgrades-as-part-of-citywide-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154069\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces $19.5M for Bronx park upgrades as part of citywide investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Three parks in the Bronx are slated for $19.5 million in reconstruction funding as part of a new $50 million capital investment announced Thursday by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYC Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bronx, Mott Playground in Concourse will receive $9.3 million, Fountain of Youth Playground in Mott Haven\/Longwood will receive $8 million and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/morris-mesa-playground-opens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Morris Mesa<\/a> Playground in Mount Hope will receive $2.2 million.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/zohran-mamdani-announces-bronx-park-upgrades\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tMayor Zohran Mamdani announces $19.5M for Bronx park upgrades as part of citywide investment &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Three parks in the Bronx are slated for $19.5 million in reconstruction funding as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,1882,63879,54541,63880,15726,63881,3796,63882,63888,2610,9,24,12,63,2577,14182,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-154069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-community-parks-initiative","11":"tag-concourse","12":"tag-fountain-of-youth","13":"tag-longwood","14":"tag-morris-mesa","15":"tag-mott-haven","16":"tag-mott-playground","17":"tag-mount-hope","18":"tag-neighborhoods","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-outdoors","24":"tag-parks-department","25":"tag-the-bronx","26":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","27":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}