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Overview of existing playgrounds and recreational facilities in New York City
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Council Member Krishnan provides an overview of the existing playgrounds and recreational facilities in New York City, emphasizing their importance to neighborhoods and child development. He presents statistics on the number and types of public playgrounds available in the city.
- There are approximately 2,667 public playgrounds in New York City.
- The playgrounds are managed by different departments: 1,000 by the Department of Parks and Recreation, 796 by NYCHA, and 243 on Department of Education property that are open to the public after school hours.
- Krishnan introduces the concept of jointly or joint use playgrounds, setting up for the next topic.
Shekar Krishnan
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Today, we'll examine a few different things.
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When we think about increasing access to our recreational fields and facilities, I think it's important to look at it in two different respects.
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One is increasing access to the currently existing playgrounds, and other recreational facilities that we have, specifically in finding ways to open them up more to the public.
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Playgrounds are the cornerstones of many neighborhoods and an integral part of growing up in the city.
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For children of today's city, there are approximately two thousand six sixty seven public playgrounds throughout the city, including 1,000 from the Department of Parks and Recreation, seven hundred ninety six maintained by NYCHA, and 243 that are on Department of Education property, but open to the public after school hours.
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We also have playgrounds called jointly or joint use playgrounds.