department of parks and recreation
De Blasio backs off plan to ban foreign flags in city parks 🔯
In an abrupt about-face, the de Blasio administration on Thursday pulled back a plan to ban foreign flags in city parks "until fu🌠rther review." The announcement came a day after...
Henry Stern, longtime city parks commisioner, dead at 83 𝄹
Henry Stern, who served as the city's parks commissioner l𒁃onger than anyone except Robert Moses, has died. Stern was 83. He ran the park system under two mayors — Ed...
Animal lovers rip propos🅰e😼d ban on feeding pigeons and squirrels
The city wants to outlaw feeding some classic New Yorkers — pigeons and squirrels — and animal lovers say it’s totally nuts. The city Parks Department already fines people ꧂$50...
S๊ofa found in Up♍per West Side tree taken down
So long, sofa. A couch that sat ꦗin a tree — 30 feet high — on the Upper West Side for nearly a week was pulled down by city workers,...
Domino Park is already a huge hit🎃 with the publiไc
We can’t not ෴mention just-opened Domino Park at Two Trees’ mixed-use Domino Sugar complex on the Williamsburg waterfront. My New York Post colleague Tim Donnelly has already told you how...
Two-𝓀timing hawk has babies with new mate 💎
ꦑ Tompkins Square Park’s biggest tail chaser has gone from sugar daddy to baby daddy. The red-tailed Romeo named Christo -- who 🤡was servicing three lady hawks at once -- is...
ও Tompkins Square Park’s cheating hawk strikes again
Tompkins Square Park’s claw-sanova is now servicing no🐼t two, but three chicks at the same time. The red-tailed stud named Christo made the front pꦰage of The Post in March...
Parks supervisor made officers 'offer up' wives for promotions: suit
State Parks police officers working under a Long Island boss allegedly ha𝓡d to “offer up” their wives to him to get promoted, according to꧋ a lawsuit. Joseph S. Reyes, a...
The best parks to fly yo꧃ur drone in NYC (without getting a ticket)
Some 1.2 million drones were𒈔 wrapped up under American Christmas trees last month, according to the Consumer Technology Association. But good luck finding a spot t🌠o fly that gift in...
Why your Christmas tree costs ꩵso much this year
Manhattan’s skyrocketing rents aren’t just hammering apartment dwellers — they’re also jacking up the cost of Christmas. 🤪Tree vendors who lease space from the city in some of the trendiest...
City wasted $3M on foundation fill it could have gotten💛 for free
The city wasted more than $3 million buying foundation fill for a massive Staten Island park project that Th🅘e Post previously reported was li𝐆terally sinking, official memos and court papers...
Parks Depart💖ment ignores rule to buy American benches 𝔉
The Parks Department ignored a “Buy American” rule and instead bought foreign benches for a new city bike path, a contractor says. Allen Architectural Metals, an Alabama firm that emplo🦩ys...
Fired Parks Dept. worker was 'groped and sexually harassed': suit
A former Parks De🍷partment worker has sued the city for sex harassment because she was fired for complaining about “raunchy unofficial holiday parties” where her co-workers and bosses created a...
City's steep tree removal fees slam homeowners, builders
It’s grand theft arbor! The Parks Department is gouging homeowne𓆉rs, builders and the MTA for tree removal and replacement — collecting $2.7 million in the last fiscal year, The Post...
Parks Commissioner is spending a l🐓ot of time traveling
He needs to pu♏t it in park. Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver, who came on board in May, has a weekly teaching gig at Harvard University and has traveled to Singapore...
Parks Department ch﷽arges MTA $33K per tree it removes
The Parks Department is hitting the MTA with a massive bill because of a formula that requires dozens of expensive saplings to be planted for each tr🙈ee knocked down. The...
Lifegua🌠rds charged with smoking weed while on du🎐ty
The sun wasn’t “baking” — so the lifeguards decided to. A group of New York City bay🔯watchers (not those pictured) are charged with smoking pot on duty at R✤ockaway Beach...
City pools open f💃or summer 🎀
Newꩵ Yorkers looking for a place to cool off are in luck — the city’s outdoor public pools are open. The boroughs’ 56 pools offer a break fro𒉰m the heat,...