{"id":328789,"date":"2026-08-24T22:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328789\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:42:21","slug":"back-from-a-very-restorative-vacation-mamdani-launches-effort-to-renew-nycs-parks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328789\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from a \u2018very restorative\u2019 vacation, Mamdani launches effort to renew NYC\u2019s parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off a week away upstate that he described as \u201cvery restorative,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=Mayor+Zohran+Mamdani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> returned Monday with a plan to give New York City\u2019s parks a little renewal of their own.<\/p>\n<p>City Hall launched the Parks Department\u2019s new \u201cRenew Crew,\u201d a 24-person team of painters, electricians, plumbers and other trade specialists focused on making faster repairs at playgrounds, recreation centers and sports courts across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/mamdani-wants-to-renew-nycs-parks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tBack from a \u2018very restorative\u2019 vacation, Mamdani launches effort to renew NYC\u2019s parks &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off a week away upstate that he described as \u201cvery restorative,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani returned Monday with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,22925,9,24,12,63,22458,3580,78328,123581],"class_list":["post-328789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-parks","tag-playground","tag-pothole-politics","tag-renew-crew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328789","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=328789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328789\/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=328789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}