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Grant Circle/Virginia Park in the Bronx; Flushing Meadows
Corona Park in Queens; Fort Greene Park and Prospect Park
in Brooklyn; and Faber Park in Staten Island. These projects
represent the wide range of potential improvements Parks
Without Borders can offer. For example, at Van Cortlandt
Park, one of the Bronx's flagship parks, we are reimagining
a major entrance to create a grand entrance that welcomes
people when they arrive. We will also be creating a new
flexible plaza space in place of underused tennis courts. At
Seward Park in Manhattan, we're redesigning a part of the
park that's next door to a library. Today, it is an empty paved
area, but with the new design, it will be a space park goers
and library users can both use and enjoy.
Design for these projects is well underway. In fall 2016, to
kick off design we held robust and well-attended community
input meetings for each of these eight projects and continue the
dialogue with the community about Parks Without Borders.
Design on the eight showcase projects will wrap up by the end
of 2017, and we look forward to unveiling these reimagined
spaces to the public by early 2020.
Beyond the eight showcase projects, we're also incorporating Parks Without Borders design principles into existing capital projects when possible. While this approach won't work
on every site, we expect to impact hundreds of additional existing projects across the city in this fashion with this new design philosophy. Thus far, new Parks Without Borders designs
have lowered or eliminated fences or expanded the park amenities to the adjacent sidewalks, plazas and temporarily closed
streets to create a more seamless public realm experience.
Parks Without Borders is nothing if not ambitious: We're
seeking to change the face of parks and public spaces across
New York City. It's a transformation so profound that it will
not work without public buy-in, but through Parks Without
Borders we were able to engage with New Yorkers exactly on
why park design is important. NYC Parks articulated the power
of design to meet a basic public need: access to quality open
spaces. Through images and words, we communicated the idea
that if something doesn't look welcoming and accessible, fewer
people will access it. If the public realm is not designed in a unified way, the result can be wasted spaces. If a park doesn't look
beautiful from the outside, it isn't contributing as much as it can
to the character of the neighborhood.
Parks Without Borders will take a few years to be fully
realized, but less than a year in, we are already seeing New
Yorkers build closer relationships with their neighborhood
parks and public spaces. We are already breathing new life
into neighborhoods by creating more seamless and accessible parks and public spaces.

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