Pop-up ping pong = instant public space activation. Excited to start sharing this personal initiative. Come out today, Sat May 2, 4–6pm on the Vanderbilt Open Street. We’re rolling out a table to get the word out about #PingPongforAll. www.instagram.com/pingpongnyc

See you on 5/9! @ny4p.bsky.social is organizing a Fort Greene–Navy Yard Walk & Talk with @fortgreenepark and orgs that advocate for an equitable, fully funded parks system. Join @crystalforbk @phara4assembly @BKBPReynoso @shaquanaforbk on May 9, 11 AM–1 PM. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/fort-green...

Good to hear an update on Brownsville Rec Center, a community resource that has been closed for 5 yrs. Grateful to CM Chris Banks and BKCB16 for pushing this forward. Proud that our @ny4p.bsky.social advocacy and @nycfuture partnership helped prompt this conversation with @nycparks.bsky.social

@ny4p.bsky.social walked Central Harlem w/partner lifting up wins + challenges across our parks system. TY @Wright4Harlem @GaleBrewerNYC @CordellCleare and COS for @dr_yusefsalaam for attending! This is on-the-ground advocacy building momentum for a fully funded parks system across NYC.

Streets in parks should be car free! That includes Freedom Dr. in Forest Park. After an unexpected downpour when the event was supposed to begin yesterday, the sun came out for our Car-Free Freedom Dr Community Celebration! Neighbors want streets and parks that prioritize people. @ny4p.bsky.social

100 Days of @NYCMayor Mamdani is a bright spot in an otherwise dark moment! Fun to celebrate that and the baby podium.

As mentioned in NYT, we’ll be celebrating Car Free Freedom Dr. on Fri, 4/17, 2:30 pm. Freedom Dr. in Forest Park by Giovanelli Playground. After Adams brought cars back in Jan., it’s an open street for the season. NYC Mayor: make it permanently car free. prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/E...

The future of flood control looks less like a wall and more like A PARK. 🌧️🌿 Important piece in @NewYorker by @ericklinenberg.bsky.social on why parks can and should be built as climate infrastructure. @NYCMayor @nycparks.bsky.social could lead with this approach: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

@ny4p.bsky.social celebrates this major win for workers + public space: US’s first Deliverista Hub in City Hall Park shows how parks can serve essential workers. Congratulations @LigiaGuallpa @AjcheGustavo @LosDeliveristas on building this worker-led movement.👏👏 @NYCParks leadership!

Excited to share that CM Salaam is a partner for our Harlem Walk & Talk on Sat, 4/18, 11am-1pm Join us as we walk Harlem, highlight local park wins and challenges, and call for investment in our parks system! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-wal...

Front page @WinnHu @nytimes piece featuring our @ny4p.bsky.social Car Free Parks campaign w @TransAlt. As NYT notes, this builds on a global movement to reclaim streets for people, and NYC should lead. City Hall is paying attention. Join us April 17 on Freedom Dr in Forest Park.

Coverage of the Met Rec rally shows what we’re hearing citywide: New Yorkers need real investment in parks & recreation. Proud to stand with North Brooklyn Parks Alliance and Center for an Urban Future to push for fully funded public recreation. @nbkparks.bsky.social

This is parks budget real talk: the deficit discussion is BS. There’s always money and we must fund parks. @ny4p.bsky.social at Prospect Park Alliance’s legislative breakfast today presenting on the Play Fair Coalition’sParks 2030 Platform: www.ny4p.org/what-we-do/p...

Open Met Pool! @ny4p.bsky.social was proud to help organize a rally to support neighbors who are advocating for the reopening of Met Pool, which closed abruptly over a year ago, and is an invaluable resource that makes NYC more affordable and livable for thousands. Open Met Pool and Fund Rec

NY4P's @kathyparkprice.bsky.social and transpo advocate @jonorcutt.bsky.social wrote for @nydailynews.com calling on @mayor.nyc.gov to ban personal vehicles from parks citywide to keep NYers safe and their parks accessible. It’s time to fully design park roads for people, not cars. bit.ly/4lCdfoX

Thank you @cmrestler.bsky.social for asking @nycgovparks.org about Williamsburg’s Metropolitan Recreation Center, which closed abruptly in January 2025. Great to hear Parks say Met Pool is “a priority,” “not a forgotten project,” and that the community should know Parks is there constantly.

Join @ny4p.bsky.social and #PlayFair on Monday morning at City Hall with Parks champions Chair @cmtyhankerson + CMs @CMSandyNurse @chrismartenyc @tiffany_caban to fight for a fully funded parks system! RSVP to support parks: bit.ly/parksbudget

ICYMI, @kathyparkprice.bsky.social and I asked why @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social hasn't restored *🚘-free roads* taken away from Forest & Silver Lake Parks by Adams (in the @nydailynews.com over the weekend) Mayor Mamdani, return these spaces to the people!

The @mayor.nyc.gov can undo the harm Eric Adams caused by bringing cars back to Freedom Dr and Silver Lake Park Rd. Returning these roads to people does not require legislation or funding, just leadership and a vision for parks as places of refuge from cars. We can do this in parks across NYC.

Like restoring the Bedford Ave protected bike lane, reversing Adams on these park roads will be a strong indicator whether Mamdani will govern streets "audaciously" or will overthink/play politics on small but important street safety/quality of life issues (de Blasio II)

Writing in the Daily News this morning with @kathyparkprice.bsky.social, urging @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to get on with the no-brainer of restoring 🚘-free roads in Staten Island's Silver Lake Park & Forest Park in Queens (and other parks, as the News spotlights here 👇)

Join @cmjengutierrez.bsky.social @cmrestler.bsky.social @emilygallagher.bsky.social @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social @ny4p.bsky.social @nbkparks.bsky.social and others to support the reopening of Metropolitan Recreation Center in Williamsburg. www.eventbrite.com/e/rally-to-f...

Join our walk to support Harlem parks! On Sat, April 18, 11 AM @ny4p.bsky.social + partners are hosting a Harlem Walk & Talk to explore local parks and public spaces, hear community priorities, and talk about building a stronger, more equitable parks system RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/harlem-wal...

This space could be designed for people! Visited the Manhattan side of the Queensboro Bridge, where activists want to reclaim space that would greatly expand Honey Locust Park. Thanks for reaching out to @ny4p.bsky.social about it, Paul Krikler.

Broadway Vision shows how we can creatively expand NYC’s open space without new land. This section expands the footprint of Madison Square Park @MADSQRD and stitching together a people-first corridor. More of this faster is how we build a greener, more livable city. @ny4p.bsky.social

Save the date to speak up for NYC’s parks and open space on March 23! @ny4p.bsky.social and the 450+ org strong #PlayFair coalition will ofc be at the prelim budget hearing. Stay tuned for rally details but reach out with Qs: [email protected] legistar.council.nyc.gov/View.ashx?M=...

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Loved today’s announcement that @mayor.nyc.gov is overturning select streets projects that Eric Adams killed. 👏🎉💪 The mayor has a similar opportunity to reverse recent decisions that Adams made to bring cars back to streets in two parks! Read what the neighbors say👇🏽#carfreeparks

Car-free Freedom Drive! Organizers sent a letter to @mayor.nyc.gov @nyc-dot.bsky.social @nycgovparks.org urging them to reverse what they called a “regressive policy” and to “govern in line with the Mayor’s stated goal to make our streetscapes the ‘envy of the world.’” issuu.com/queenschroni...

@ny4p.bsky.social is happy to help neighbors in their fight for a car-free Freedom Drive. Parks are for people, not cars. ‘We want a Forest Park that breathes’: Richmond Hill residents rally against reopening of Forest Park’s Freedom Drive to traffic. qns.com/2026/02/rich...

Dozens of activists and residents of Richmond Hill last Friday rallied for a permanently car-free Freedom Drive, a stret in Forest Park. @ny4p.bsky.social @transalt.org @openplans.org www.qchron.com/editions/sou...

Someone mentioned to me that the Brooklyn Organizer role at TA was posted again. Apply here: transalt.org/careers

Wow. That's a slap in the face to her constituents and neighbors. Very poor taste.

This was 🚘-free for 5 years until Adams brought back traffic on his way out, as a favor for fellow cars-first Republicans. It’s a no brainer for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to restore

Today in Richmond Hill, 75+ neighbors showed up to march and rally for a permanently car-free Freedom Dr. in Forest Park. Locals families, kids, older adults, runners, cyclists, and disability justice leaders shared why they need people-first park roads. @ny4p.bsky.social was happy to support.

Congratulations to @dianaforqueens.com on your Assembly win in Queens! Excited to see a leader who prioritizes public space designed for people, from safer streets to better parks, in this seat!

Join Richmond Hill neighbors, Car-Free parks lovers, @NY4P, @TransAlt and @OpenPlans this Friday! Freedom Dr. in Forest Park was car free for 5 years until Jan 5. Details: prod.cdn.everyaction.com/emails/van/E...

Neighbors in Richmond Hill, Queens are organizing a Rally for Car-Free Freedom Dr. and car-free parks in NYC on Friday, Feb 6. @ny4p.bsky.social supports them’ Meet at 2:15 pm at 85th Ave/102nd St (by PS 66) to march to Freedom Dr & Giovanelli Playground. RSVP: bit.ly/carfreefreedomdr

Thanks to the 80+ people who came out to today’s @ny4p.bsky.social LIC Walk & Talk to Build a Strong Parks System! Elected officials, parks and open space advocates and residents in LIC today to tour anticipated sites of green infrastructure enhancement ahead of the OneLIC rezoning.

When NYC DOT began its mission to transform NYC streets, it issued a lot of strong policy docs & updates on city transportation trends. We need to get back to that Consider 2008's critique of NYC's underdeveloped public realm (with Gehl Architects), or the annual Sustainable Streets Index

Loved that the new @NYCParks commissioner mentioned table tennis in her remarks yesterday! We should have ping pong in every park and plaza. Applied for a @CitizensNYC mini grant in 2024 hoping to kick off the personal advocacy campaign, but didn’t get it. Must relaunch the effort…

It was an honor to be invited to attend the announcement of Tricia Shimamura as the next @nycparks.bsky.social Commissioner. As she said, the Parks Department is THE agency of affordability. Congratulations Tricia!

Amazing news that @ShahanaFromBK is chairing a new committee on disability and is now a member of the transpo committee! Let’s go universal daylighting, streets that are the envy of the world (in and out of parks), + streets that prioritize accessibility and all abilities! 🦾🔥

NY4P and the #PlayFair Coalition congratulate Council Member Ty Hankerson on his appointment as Chair of the Parks and Recreation Committee and look forward to working closely with him to advance a bold vision for @nycgovparks.org. (🧵1/4)

Looking at the members of the City Council's Transportation Committee, 60.8% of their constituents' households are car-free! We're a city of public transit riders. It's great to see a committee that reflects the way the majority of New Yorkers get around!

Someone recently joked that @IconParkingNYC should fight for universal daylighting. Hahah they should! Hilariously, one of Icon Parking’s NYC offices is in the same building as @transalt.org They could pop upstairs and be like, hey guys…

New on John St. b/w Cliff and Pearl Streets, planters put on the sidewalk by a private business to deter the chronic sidewalk parking by trucks and other large vehicles. Lower Manhattan, which has tons of public transit and a booming residential pop, should be pedestrianized.

Great news for all New Yorkers! 🚽 We would also love if @NYCMayor made a plan to improve 60% of NYC public bathrooms, which are in @NYCParks parks. In @NY4P and Play Fair Coalition’s First 100 Days agenda, we call for a bathroom blitz to do just that.

This reminds me that parks and streets are inseparable. Removing cars from Central Park and Prospect Park are legacy TA campaigns that greatly improved the parks and made surrounding neighborhoods more livable and moved NYC toward safer people-centered streets. We need more car-free parks!