{"id":155235,"date":"2026-03-06T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155235\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:13:07","slug":"these-10-nyc-parks-in-underserved-areas-will-get-50m-in-upgrades-mamdani-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155235\/","title":{"rendered":"These 10 NYC parks in underserved areas will get $50M in upgrades, Mamdani says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"2obff\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pledging $50 million to reconstruct 10 parks across New York City, targeting spaces his office says haven\u2019t seen \u201csignificant capital improvements\u201d in at least two decades.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fuf24\">The funding, which Mamdani announced alongside city Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura this week, will go to parks in Brownsville, Harlem, the Lower East Side, Corona and other historically underserved areas in each of the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"c19vp\">The renovations will benefit more than 100,000 New Yorkers, city officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"c1eb2\">\u201cFor many New Yorkers, the park is their backyard \u2014 a place where they can play a game of pick-up basketball, hold a picnic on the grass or kick a ball with their kids,\u201d Mamdani said in a statement. \u201cThese New Yorkers know the difference between a park in disarray and a park that city government has invested in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2kuq2\">The 10 parks will get upgrades including new play equipment, recreation amenities and enhanced green space as part of the city\u2019s Community Parks Initiative, which launched in 2014. The program has already completed 70 projects and has 47 others underway, according to the Mamdani administration.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"b4crs\">The announcement comes as the mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/mamdanis-proposed-budget-cuts-funding-to-nyc-parks-he-previously-called-neglected\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">faces criticism from parks advocates<\/a> over his proposed parks budget. Mamdani had promised while campaigning that he would dedicate 1% of the city\u2019s overall budget to the parks department if elected. Instead, his preliminary spending plan cuts $33.7 million from the department, bringing total proposed parks spending to around $654 million \u2014 roughly 0.5% of the city&#8217;s $127 billion budget.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fum7r\">Dora Pekec, a spokesperson for Mamdani, told Gothamist last month he was still committed to achieving the 1% goal \u201cby the end of his mayoralty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"61eob\">Here is the full list of parks receiving new investments from the Community Parks Initiative:<\/p>\n<p>Bronx<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cle10\">Mott Playground (Concourse)<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8nfiq\">Fountain of Youth Playground (Mott Haven \/ Longwood)<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e76j7\">Morris Mesa Playground (Mount Hope)<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8f408\">Van Dyke Playground (Brownsville)<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"8sqt7\">Roebling Playground (South Williamsburg)<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4874b\">Elizabeth Stroud Playground (Bedford\u2013Stuyvesant)<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3pore\">Vladeck Park (Lower East Side)<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"393u7\">St. Nicholas Park 133rd St. Playground (Harlem)<\/p>\n<p>Queens<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d91e8\">Corona Health Sanctuary (Corona)<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2sa8d\">Kaltenmeier Playground (Rosebank \/ Shore Acres)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani is pledging $50 million to reconstruct 10 parks across New York City, targeting spaces his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-155235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155235","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=155235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}