{"id":197936,"date":"2026-05-20T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197936\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:49:26","slug":"philadelphia-moves-up-to-27th-in-national-ranking-of-city-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/197936\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia moves up to 27th in national ranking of city parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia has moved up in the national ratings of city parks, according to the annual report by the Trust for Public Land, released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The improvement is the result of one big new park: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/borski-park-opens-bridesburg-delaware-riverfront\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robert Borski Park<\/a>, along old industrial land on the Delaware River in Bridesburg. It opened last July and instantly improved Philadelphians\u2019 access to green space. <\/p>\n<p>Now, according to Trust for Public Lands State Director Elizabeth Class-Moldonado, 97% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park, up from 95%.<\/p>\n<p>The park moves Philadelphia from 28th to 27th among the 100 largest cities overall, but it\u2019s No. 3 for park amenities. It\u2019s held back by the size of its parks \u2014 smaller than average \u2014 and spending, which is the lowest among the top scorers. <\/p>\n<p>The Trust for Public Lands also published a report that found parks return $3 for every dollar invested.<\/p>\n<p>Parks Commissioner Sue Slawson said communities around parks and \u201cFriends of\u201d parks groups add value that isn\u2019t measured in money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of, I believe, the needle moving also are those volunteers that say yes, we love our parks and we\u2019re going to make sure that they\u2019re inviting, accessible, ready for community \u2014 all those things matter,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia has moved up in the national ratings of city parks, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1958,69,71,70,15990,79171],"class_list":["post-197936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-parks","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-parks","tag-philadelphia-parks-and-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}