{"id":261671,"date":"2026-06-10T08:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261671\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:35:28","slug":"billionaire-bill-ackman-swings-into-action-with-3-8m-hells-kitchen-playground-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/261671\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Bill Ackman Swings Into Action With $3.8M Hell&#8217;s Kitchen Playground Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-grad-6-gradient-background has-background wp-block-paragraph\">The hedge fund billionaire, whose Pershing Square offices sit above the Range Rover dealership on 11th Avenue, funded a major new NYCHA playground and open-space renovation after years of walking past Harborview Terrace on his way to work in Hell\u2019s Kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_4676-Harborview-Terrace-Bill-Ackman.jpg\" alt=\"Harborview Terrace Ribbon Cutting Bill Ackman\" class=\"wp-image-146226\"\/>Bill Ackman races to the top of the jungle gym alongside Community Board Chair Leslie Boghosian Murphy and Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You don\u2019t often find a hedge fund billionaire scrambling up a children\u2019s jungle gym in the middle of a workday. But on Tuesday morning at Harborview Terrace Houses, Bill Ackman was among the first to test out the new Knicks-colored pyramid playground that his foundation helped pay for \u2014 enthusiastically scrambling onto the orange ropes after a ribbon-cutting with residents, NYCHA officials and local electeds.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Phil O'Brien Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/cropped-Phil-OBrien-Portrait-WB-scaled-1-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher &amp; Editor Phil O\u2019Brien is an entrepreneur and journalist. As an international photojournalist, he photographed Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and many others. He built a successful international sports photography agency, EMPICS, that was Getty Images\u2019 major competitor in Europe when it sold. He founded a children\u2019s charity in the UK that has helped young people through sport for over 15 years. Phil has lived in New York since 2012. He founded W42ST in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Phil O&#8217;Brien\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hedge fund billionaire, whose Pershing Square offices sit above the Range Rover dealership on 11th Avenue, funded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,305,3580],"class_list":["post-261671","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","tag-nycha","tag-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261671","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=261671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}