“The new schoolyard at PS 184M Shuang Wen, a grade school in Manhattan’s Chinatown, features new play equipment, a yoga circle, a stage and basketball and tennis courts.

It also has a porous turf field that can capture an estimated 1.3 million gallons of stormwater runoff, according to New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).”

——- The future is spongy.

I would say it’s one overlooked tactic and a really good one. Makes the playgrounds more fun and pleasing to look at (and especially less bleak in Winter).

Also overlooked for flooding are adding more trees and replacing parking spaces with bioswales in locations prone to flooding.

I agree and I would go one step further; I believe the city should mandate shade-tree lined streets. For example between the street and the sidewalk a tree every twelve feet where possible. All yards front and back capable of growing trees should be given tax incentives per tall tree grown. I would like to see as many tall shade-trees as possible living in New York City, not only are tree lined streets pleasant to look upon but the shade provided to the street multiplied by the NYC’s 120K blocks will lower the temperature of the city in summer.

The city needs more playgrounds generally.

much smarter than all the astroturf the city has been throwing on park projects for the past decade. the parade grounds in BK have a fenced-off area full of all the ripped, worn turf and literal garbage cans full of the microplastics they left off.

good thing the parks department came around my neighborhood and cut down all the big old trees around the playgrounds and didn't bother to replace them. shade? fuck yo shade!

NYC DEP already has been implementing and constructing various green infrastructure and continuing to expand on public places such as playgrounds.

More info: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dep/downloads/pdf/water/stormwater/green-infrastructure/gi-annual-report-2021.pdf (Start at page 14)

moar treez

NYC has an insane amount of playgrounds, even per capita. They're just not very evenly distributed or well maintained or equal in quality. A lot of the NYCHA playgrounds look post-apocalyptic

That being said I'm all for better and greener playgrounds, just kinda hope that means old decrepit ones get improved or new ones get build in neighborhoods that need one

I guess what I really mean is that it needs more athletic space. Agree there isn’t really a shortage of playgrounds for small children.

Less playgrounds, more bike lanes

Thanks for posting.