parks
Park rangers, scientists handling bathroom cleanup duties at Yosemite amid DOGE freeze
Citing an internal email, SFGate reports all staffers are being called upon to pick up the slack, including supervisors and managers.
NYC Council bill instructs city to study possibility of adding 2K more public bathrooms
The Big Apple may soon be flush with shiny new toilets. A bill passed by City Council Thursday directs officials to come up with a plan to create a citywide...
Brooklyn's Marine Park planting 'non-flammable' vegetation after fires destroy unprecedented acreage
Burned patches of foliage can still be spotted throughout the 798-acre park -- as well as some scorched golf balls from the neighboring links course.
Slain NYC parks worker honored with street renaming 50 years after death
A Staten Island street was renamed Sunday in honor of a parks worker who was killed 50 years ago during a botched golf-course burglary �and never got to see...
NYC's already-controversial 'Open Streets' program revising rules to use public space for profit: 'Fresh kind of hell'
The NYC Department of Transportation is scheming to sell off prime public space it initially commandeered for its utopian “open streets�- to the highest bidder.
Brooklyn residents fight plan to chop down 78 healthy trees in Fort Greene Park, saying it'll create a 'summer frying pan'
Plant-loving locals are looking to block the city from chopping down 78 trees in Fort Greene Park �a move they say would turn the greenspace into a “summer frying...
Peek inside the plan for a gorgeous NYC park that would reshape the Midtown waterfront
This casino plan calls for all kinds of green.
Brad Lander's 'pave over' NYC golf courses for affordable housing plan is a double bogey
Never mind losing 2,500 acres of “green space�to asphalt, concrete, steel and rebar; this wouldn't do a whit to ease the city’s housing disaster.
Randall's Island trashed by migrant tent city -- and now Dem NYC pol wants $11M to spruce it up
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine wants Mayor Eric Adams to invest in Randall's Island now that the massive migrant tent city is finally gone.
Here's how the world's smallest park inched into record books
A 2.5-square-foot plot of grass in Japan has snatched the Guinness World Record for the smallest ever park.
Protesters demand ban on artificial grass in NYC public parks, which they say will poison kids with 'forever chemicals'
"The last bit of Manhattan, they had to cover it with plastic. They could not leave it alone."
Elizabeth Street Garden is a ‘work of art,' new federal lawsuit claims -- in latest attempt to save beloved NYC park
Advocates seeking to save the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden filed a federal lawsuit against the city Tuesday.
Manager of iconic NY amusement park from movie 'Big' wants out of contract -- here's the eye-popping total it could cost taxpayers
The manager of an iconic amusement park featured in the movie “Big�accused Westchester County of violating their contract �and now taxpayers may have to fork over up to...
Brooklynites fume over shuttered walk-on tennis courts after $1M renovation: ‘Bogus excuses�
The four tennis courts have been locked to the public since December.
Coyotes spotted trotting through Central Park, including in broad daylight, several times in last few weeks
Coyotes have been spotted in Central Park several times in the last two weeks �including one daylight sighting that was captured on video.
Long Island town breathes new life into dilapidated strip club
The building that once held the Oasis Gentlemen’s Club in Smithtown will soon be greeting visitors to the adjacent park.
NYC faces 'street tree emergency' -- and recent rains may not be the end of the trouble
New York City is under a "street tree emergency" sparked by drought conditions -- with recent rain doing little to end what could be a crisis for the city's plantlife....
Long-hidden space under Brooklyn Bridge reopens after 15 years -- and public is in awe: 'Huge for the community'
“It’s huge for the community," one local said about the new park.
Jokester behind Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest slapped with $500 fine: 'We were planning on being taken out in handcuffs'
"I probably legally shouldn't say I'd do it again but I can say $500 isn't too much of a dissuader."