Parks are vital infrastructure for healthy, flourishing communities, and are essential to improving
quality of life for city residents. In this report, Trust for Public Land (TPL) quantified benefits of
the network of city, state, and federal parks in New York City (NYC). NYC has an extensive park
system that residents visit 527 million times per year, with 99 percent of residents living within a
10-minute walk to a park.
Parks in NYC create billions of dollars of benefits and savings every year
to residents, businesses, and visitors in all five boroughs. Additional investments in parks would
have the potential to lead the economic and social recovery of the city.
Authors
Jennifer Clinton, Linda Hwang, Jennifer Egan, Mitchel Hannon, Sr., Carter Strickland
- Published in
- United States of America
