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Make New York Green - Expand New York's Parks and Open Spaces

Sponsored by: Campaign for New York's Future

New York City residents have fewer acres of green space per person than almost any other city in the country. In some neighborhoods, 12,000 children or more can share as few as three playgrounds.

PlaNYC, a plan to improve the city's environment and build a sustainable future, will include seven initiatives to increase open space and improve public health in New York City.

These plans include making existing parks and recreational sites more available to New Yorkers, expanding usable hours at existing facilities, and expanding the city's tree canopy cover from 24 to 30 percent by 2030.

These plans and others will promote increased property values, calm traffic and increase the health and quality of life for all New Yorkers, as it would provide at least 1.5 acres of park space for every 1000 people.

Sign the petition today to show your support for PlaNYC!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 3,000

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Dear decision maker,

I am writing to urge you to support three primary approaches to ensure that nearly every New Yorker lives within a 10-minute walk of a park by 2030:

- Make existing sites available to more New Yorkers. This includes opening schoolyards across the city as public playgrounds, allowing athletic
teams across the city to use existing fields and complexes, and completing at least one major underdeveloped park site in every borough.

- Expand usable hours at existing sites. This includes converting asphalt sites into multi-purpose fields and installing new lighting that allows for nighttime use of existing fields.

- Re-imagine the public realm. The City will create a new or enhance existing public plazas in every community and will green the cityscape through tree plantings and expanding the Greenstreets program.

We signed the “Make New York Green - Expand New York's Parks and Open Spaces” letter!

# 150:

1:13 am PST, Feb 12, Leia Bess, Missouri

# 149:

12:44 am PST, Feb 12, Candy LeBlanc, California

# 148:

7:41 pm PST, Feb 11, Caitlyn Johnson, Virginia

# 147:

7:37 pm PST, Feb 11, Name not displayed, Maine
this would be wonderful!!!

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6:53 pm PST, Feb 11, Emmanuel Tejada, New York

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5:48 pm PST, Feb 11, Joseph DiTargiani, New York

# 144:

4:56 pm PST, Feb 11, Alison Lambert, Rhode Island

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4:48 pm PST, Feb 11, Name not displayed, Massachusetts

# 142:

4:47 pm PST, Feb 11, Laura Zanoli, Italy

# 141:

3:53 pm PST, Feb 11, Betty Van Wicklen, New York
The more green spaces in NYC, the cleaner the air will be and the more relaxed the people!

# 140:

3:46 pm PST, Feb 11, Janice M. Burke, New Jersey

# 139:

2:34 pm PST, Feb 11, Name not displayed, Romania

# 138:

1:01 pm PST, Feb 11, Name not displayed, Indiana

# 137:

12:23 pm PST, Feb 11, Francis Scheuer ll, Florida
Give them more parks. Green space benefits everyone in vital ways.

# 136:

11:45 am PST, Feb 11, Glen Venezio, Puerto Rico

# 135:

11:17 am PST, Feb 11, Joe Jordan-Allen, Utah

# 134:

11:12 am PST, Feb 11, John Miller, Illinois

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10:50 am PST, Feb 11, Amy Walker, Indiana

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8:55 am PST, Feb 11, Heather Raso, New York

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7:05 am PST, Feb 11, RALPH Xox, Germany

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6:07 am PST, Feb 11, Alice Tomek, New York

# 129:

12:12 am PST, Feb 11, John Sodrel, Indiana

# 128:

9:44 pm PST, Feb 10, Ania Dabrowski, New York

# 127:

9:32 pm PST, Feb 10, Ginny Pierce, California

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6:25 pm PST, Feb 10, Karen Stillwell, Tennessee

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6:18 pm PST, Feb 10, Danielle Solazzo, Ohio

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6:08 pm PST, Feb 10, Jenny Mrkvicka, Iowa

# 123:

4:48 pm PST, Feb 10, Christine Taylor, Florida

# 122:

3:47 pm PST, Feb 10, Angelina Coriano, New York

# 121:

3:18 pm PST, Feb 10, Rukiya Hutchison, New York

# 120:

2:55 pm PST, Feb 10, Wes Keith, Missouri

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2:19 pm PST, Feb 10, Leah Chamberlin, Pennsylvania

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1:49 pm PST, Feb 10, BiLL Fowlie, Maine

# 117:

12:26 pm PST, Feb 10, Pinkyjain Pan, California

# 116:

11:06 am PST, Feb 10, Tania Naim, Lebanon

# 115:

11:02 am PST, Feb 10, Kelly Behrends, New York

# 114:

9:30 am PST, Feb 10, Heather Barss, New Hampshire

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8:40 am PST, Feb 10, Matthew Pintar, Pennsylvania

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7:36 am PST, Feb 10, Michelle Murphy, Pennsylvania

# 111:

6:49 am PST, Feb 10, KAREN GOUGLER, Michigan
HUMANS DESTROY NATURE & NOW WHEN MAYBE ITS CLOSE TO BEING TO LATE FOR LOTS OF THINGS, WE TRY TO GO BACK & REPAIR ALL THE THINGS WE ARE TRYING TO DESTROY OR HAVE DESTROYED..SOMETIMES ITS JUST A LITTLE TO LATE.

# 110:

6:40 am PST, Feb 10, Joseph Desimone, New York
better life for children for years ahead think of the future

# 109:

6:11 am PST, Feb 10, Name not displayed, Florida

# 108:

5:15 am PST, Feb 10, Cecilia Durieux, Switzerland

# 107:

4:16 am PST, Feb 10, Brent Bartholomew, California

# 106:

4:00 am PST, Feb 10, Franziska Eber, Germany

# 105:

1:12 am PST, Feb 10, Avril Kettle, United Kingdom

# 103:

9:25 pm PST, Feb 9, Jennifer Elliott, Oklahoma

# 102:

9:22 pm PST, Feb 9, Nuntanit Bumrungsap, Thailand

# 101:

7:39 pm PST, Feb 9, Name not displayed, New York
If NY was greener, the atmosphere will be healthier and will look much more better for the environment.

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