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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: 2-3-2009
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!

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5:03 am PST, Feb 29, Rebeca Villalba Herrero, Spain

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5:03 pm PST, Feb 28, Janet Sorell, New York

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3:46 pm PST, Feb 28, Donna Rosenthal, New York

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7:42 am PST, Feb 28, Mary Raffaele, New York

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6:29 am PST, Feb 28, Mary Khalil, New York

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7:56 pm PST, Feb 27, Lorraine Aguilar, New York

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3:08 pm PST, Feb 27, Shannon Fouts, Washington

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12:35 pm PST, Feb 27, Ann B. Peterson, New York
Adding more green spaces will make New York a better place to live. It will improve our quality of life.

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12:03 pm PST, Feb 27, Jesse Browning, New York

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11:54 am PST, Feb 27, Nicole Russo, New York
All children deserve open spaces to run and play. Please help New York to green up their city. It will improve the lives of thousands!

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11:10 am PST, Feb 27, Alyx Kielar, Texas

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10:47 am PST, Feb 27, Sabrina Poblete, California

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7:50 am PST, Feb 27, Emily Mock, New York

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6:46 am PST, Feb 27, Laura Waszazak, New Jersey

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9:28 pm PST, Feb 26, Olivia Geri, New Jersey

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9:07 pm PST, Feb 26, Carol A. Weiner, California

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8:59 pm PST, Feb 26, Kerry O'Hara, New York

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7:28 pm PST, Feb 26, Name not displayed, New York

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4:51 pm PST, Feb 26, Susanne Donovan, New York

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3:34 pm PST, Feb 26, Julie Levin, New York

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3:07 pm PST, Feb 26, Caleb L, Arizona
Please take action!!! Thank you very much!

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3:00 pm PST, Feb 26, Allison Shannon, Louisiana

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1:51 pm PST, Feb 26, Susan Gardner, New York

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1:35 pm PST, Feb 26, Angela S, California

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1:26 pm PST, Feb 26, Kenneth A Rodriguez, New York

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12:48 pm PST, Feb 26, Name not displayed, New York

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12:45 pm PST, Feb 26, Renee Wright, New York

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12:19 pm PST, Feb 26, Name not displayed, New York
very simple we need more parks and we need to keep the ones we have

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11:30 am PST, Feb 26, Crystal Jack, Florida

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11:10 am PST, Feb 26, Jessica Bell, New York

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9:15 am PST, Feb 26, Ruth Miller, New York
We need more open spaces, yes--but also more lighting in them and other efforts to make them safe. We desperately need more places for teens to hang out!

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8:45 am PST, Feb 26, Alin Petenciuc, Romania

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4:23 am PST, Feb 26, Sam Agostino, New York

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4:20 am PST, Feb 26, Tawny Ridnell, North Carolina
This will definitley benefit the air in New York City. When I was there, I didn't see any trees, except for Central Park.

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3:11 am PST, Feb 26, Erika Stone, Virginia

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12:39 am PST, Feb 26, Daniele DeBellis, New York
Parks improve the quality of life for city dwellers and visitors, improve air quality, cool down hot summers, and provide healthy places for kids to play, exercise and learn.

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9:54 pm PST, Feb 25, Benjamin Starr, New York

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9:00 pm PST, Feb 25, Lesia Haugan, Canada

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7:30 pm PST, Feb 25, Michelle Del Guercio, New York
Everyone will benefit from more open space, creating a higher quality of life for the city as a whole.

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7:27 pm PST, Feb 25, Andrea Schloeder, New York

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6:26 pm PST, Feb 25, Kristen H, New York

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4:55 pm PST, Feb 25, John De Prima, New York

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4:47 pm PST, Feb 25, Name not displayed, New York
New York's a good place to start, then, other states that look up to us will do the same.

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3:07 pm PST, Feb 25, Ruth Anton, New York

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2:37 pm PST, Feb 25, M. Kennett, New York

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2:01 pm PST, Feb 25, Name not displayed, New York

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1:24 pm PST, Feb 25, Janet Campbell, New York

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11:32 am PST, Feb 25, John T. Compton, New York

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9:43 am PST, Feb 25, M Risa, New York
More parks & space=less anger, violence

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