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Riverside Park's overgrown grounds, crumbling infrastructure and floods have officials 'screaming' for funding after years of neglect
The Upper West Side park has become a mess of muddy puddles, sinkholes, and crumbling i♒nfrastru𝔍cture in recent years
Two NYC swimm🙈ers seen cooling off inside public pool weeks before they are open for summer
New Yorkers aren't supposed to be able to cool off in any of the city's 91 pools untꦛil June 🅷27, but two people defied city officials' expectations and the gates at...
﷽Not all NYC beaches will be open for swimming this Memorial Day weekendꦚ as lifeguard shortage drags on
Department of Parks and Recreation officials are scrambling to fully staff the city's pools and beaches with lifeguards as the season nears, but already beaches on Memorial Day weeken🦄d are...
Workers stunned as four-foot alligator is hauled from Brooklyn's Prospect Park Lake, near where kids play
"I’d cut the line and get the hell out of here,'' a local fisherman tol😼d The Post if he had hooked the beast.
NYC spent $67M on a public pool that has been closed for 3 years and is falling apart 𝔍 𒉰
In 2008, city officials commissioned a $67M pool as part of thꦫe city's bid to host he 2012 Olympics -- now, the would-be Queens retreat is falling apart.
Eric Adams promises review r🧜egulations after report reveals NYC lifeguard🦩 shortage snafu
ജ Adams promised to review regulations after press reports that bureaucratic snafus and union rules are exacerbating the Big Apple's lifeguard shortage.
Terrifying picture shows unidenti🅰fied creature roamingꦯ Texas zoo
Puzzling pictures show a strange unident🍰ified creature roaming through a Texas zoo, leaving city official✃s dumbfounded.
NYC Parks Department kicks 'distraught' Harlem kids' soccer club off fields
🌌 “The idea that grass can be OK for baseball but not soccer is ludicrous," the club manager said.
Cuckoo battle over birdhouses allegedly prompts 'serial-killer notes'
“Cluck you!” “No, cluck you!” It’s all-out war on the Upper East Side o♚ver some bird𝔉houses that residents painted and hung on city trees to decorate their street amid COVID-19,...
De Blasio offers omꦓinous warning ab🤪out trash-strewn city parks
It's already "Parks & Wreck" and it may get a whole lot worse! Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday the budget-battered Parks Department is in line forಞ additional cuts even... 𓆏
Summer won't be much fun for kids in cash-starved NYC amid coronavirus
For NYC kids, this summer will be a b🦹ummer. With the last day of school next Friday, the city has ended outdoor, recreational, and job programs for youꩵths of all...
ꦐ Parks Department report from 1940 links drop in drownings with more pools
A vintage, if macabre, graphic from a 1940 city Parks Department report shows a dramatic decrease in drownings as swimming pool capacity increased. Five hundred New Yorkers drowne�🦩�d in city...
Parks Dept. worker's side hustle revealed as massive gun ring, cops say
The NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney busted an illegal gun ring that ran weapons up from Georgia to New York City — with a 33-year-old Parks Depart𒈔ment employee as the...
How the c༺ity may be washing away $1.4 billion in park redesign
The city could be washing away $1.4 billion on its Manhattan flood-prevention plan because its new East River Park design is two feet too short, according ✅to a new analysis...
Protesters hold mock funeral to urge city to save 🍸East River Park ♍
A city plan to temporarily destroy a beloved Manhattan park in a bid to prevent future flooding is so hated, hundreds of activists “buried” the proposa🌃l in a mock funeral...
Man hits Parks Department horse in face, but can't be charged: sources
What a slap in the face. A༒ Bronx lout smacked a Parks Department horse in the face on Sunday✨ — and the agency refused to do anything about it. The...
෴ Brooklyn pool closed during heat wave after infant poops in water
𝔍 An infant flushed this perfect pool day down the toilet at one Gowanus swimming spot. "Somebody didn't put a Pamp🔜ers on their kid," a staffer at the Douglass and DeGraw...
NYC park bathrooms could be hazar🍎dous to your health: report
Some restrooms in the city’s 1,700 outdoor recreati🔥on spaces are so foul, they could cause physical injury, according to a new report.
♛ Skateboarders angered over plans to remove asphalt at Tompkins S๊quare Park
Skateboarders are up in arms over a city plan to put grass on their paved paradise. An online petition with a rare plea �🦄�to actually “save the asphalt” had topped...
It takes the city more than a year to fix a sidewalk, audit finds 𓆉
The city Parks Department works at such a snail’s pace repairing tree-damaged sidewalks that some home𝔉owners have been left waiting more than a decade for them to be fixed, a.ꩵ..