Adrian Benepe
Greener Ways As Path For Bronx Under Mayor’s Plan
We are currently in the largest period of park expansion since Robert Moses and the WPA projects of the 1930s.
With a capital budget of $2.9 billion over the next 10 years, we are building innovative parks and facilities across the city on an unprecedented scale. From the concrete plants and brownfields that once lined the Bronx waterfront to the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, we are transforming the city with waterfront parks, kayak launches, bike trails, athletic fields, playgrounds and natural areas.
Thanks to the support of Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council, we will care for parks with a robust operating budget of almost $380 million, up from $180 million in 2000.
In the Bronx, new and renovated parks are transforming communities and improving the quality of life. Just in the last five years, more than $158 million has been invested in Bronx park improvements, including new waterfront parks, greenways and recreational facilities.
Over the next five years, Parks will invest more than $600 million to develop park projects in the Bronx, including completing long-unfinished Soundview Park and restoring the High Bridge to create the Bronx’s next great regional parks as part of Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC, a sweeping road map to the sustainable growth of New York City.
Some $220 million comes from the construction of the Croton Water Filtration Plant and is being spent on improvements to over 70 Bronx parks, with 13 complete, 19 in construction and 43 projects currently in design.
Ongoing projects include Seton Falls Park, Mount Hope Playground, Manida Ballfield, Clark Playground, Devoe Park and Aqueduct Lands Playground, and we expect to begin construction on all the remaining park projects before the fall of 2009.
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