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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!

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3:43 am PDT, Apr 22, Faith Marcelino, Philippines

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8:57 am PDT, Apr 21, Matthew Keffer, Illinois

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8:42 pm PDT, Apr 19, Melanie Doherty, New York

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7:12 pm PDT, Apr 19, Heather Gregory, North Carolina

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12:26 am PDT, Apr 19, Julia Tawyea, Pennsylvania

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5:45 pm PDT, Apr 18, Mary Slayton, California

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6:05 am PDT, Apr 17, Diana Lungu, Romania

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4:40 pm PDT, Apr 16, Brittany Cook, Virginia

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11:05 am PDT, Apr 16, Jennifer Henderson, Florida

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6:21 am PDT, Apr 14, Glory Miller, South Carolina

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7:23 pm PDT, Apr 13, Caitlyn Nelson, North Carolina

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6:17 pm PDT, Apr 9, Betty A.Crawford, New York

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4:04 pm PDT, Apr 9, Name not displayed, Colorado

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2:10 pm PDT, Apr 9, Natalie Swaim, Iowa

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3:42 am PDT, Apr 9, Joanne Jaber, Ohio

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5:09 am PDT, Apr 6, Maria Idler, Iceland

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4:43 pm PDT, Apr 5, Elisa DeLapa, New York

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7:20 am PDT, Apr 5, Bill McGlone, Connecticut

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3:33 pm PDT, Apr 1, Julie M Glenn, Missouri

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7:39 am PDT, Apr 1, Paige Smitherman, New York

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8:29 am PDT, Mar 31, Shiu M. Hung, California

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10:55 pm PDT, Mar 29, Jodie Nathan, New York
We were born indoors but some of lifes most rewardful and eventful experiences take place outside in nature where we deserve to grow and to spend time in.

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11:56 am PDT, Mar 28, Chua Li Hang, Malaysia

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11:13 am PDT, Mar 28, Dee Clifford, New York

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6:01 pm PDT, Mar 27, James Macdonald, Canada
kids and familys deserv health and safe places if it is green asnd safe make it happen.

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5:28 pm PDT, Mar 27, HEATHER ROSS, Florida

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11:46 pm PDT, Mar 26, Victoria Thomas, Wyoming

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11:38 am PDT, Mar 26, Chris Anas, California

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11:27 pm PDT, Mar 25, Kali Prior, Alabama

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1:23 am PDT, Mar 25, Franquelyne Low, New Mexico

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10:49 am PDT, Mar 24, Name not displayed, New York

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11:00 pm PDT, Mar 23, Haoqing Chu, Hong Kong

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10:41 pm PDT, Mar 23, Gail Dair, Australia

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7:55 pm PDT, Mar 23, Rosemari Roast, Connecticut

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11:41 am PDT, Mar 23, Sardine Tea, New York
City Planning commission needs to reexamine their priorities. STOP all this redevelopment of the city! NO MORE LUXURY CONDOS! You're contributing to the extinction of the city's diversity...the very reason so many people want to visit it. New York City is becoming homogenized!!!

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8:21 am PDT, Mar 22, Michal Dokrzewski, Poland

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5:26 am PDT, Mar 22, Richard Hollister, Arizona

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1:51 am PDT, Mar 22, Art Deco, Maine

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10:14 am PDT, Mar 21, Irina Anghel, Romania

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5:52 pm PDT, Mar 19, Catherine C, Canada

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1:38 pm PDT, Mar 19, Sara Bradshaw, New York

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7:30 am PDT, Mar 18, Diane Roman, New York

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10:02 pm PDT, Mar 16, Daniel Klein, New York

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10:32 pm PDT, Mar 15, Kelsey Turk, Texas
"Only through our efforts, can we truly make a difference." -Kelsey Turk [www.myspace.com/kelseyturk]

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1:06 pm PDT, Mar 15, Name not displayed, Wisconsin

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9:42 am PDT, Mar 15, Ange Barrett, United Kingdom

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10:13 am PDT, Mar 14, Ginger Geronimo, Alabama

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12:15 pm PDT, Mar 13, Emmy Undem, Austria

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1:32 pm PDT, Mar 12, Blanche Greenstein, New York

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