{"id":239964,"date":"2026-05-21T23:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239964\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:35:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-gravesend-nycha-complex-breaks-ground-on-new-green-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239964\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Gravesend Nycha Complex Breaks Ground On New Green Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Residents at the Marlboro Houses are one step closer to a brand-new green space.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The tenant-led project has been a year in the making, with residents working closely with designers to create an outdoor area inside the NYCHA complex.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cSomewhere that we can all get together and share stories, events, plan events,&#8221; said Natasha Franklin, a resident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">By the end of the summer, organizers say the area will be equipped with an elevated stage area for events, an outdoor fitness area and a sensory wall for neurodivergent residents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe have a lot of children here that\u2019s on the spectrum there\u2019s nowhere for them to really play that\u2019s safe,&#8221; said Franklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents at the Marlboro Houses are one step closer to a brand-new green space. The tenant-led project has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-239964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239964","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=239964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}