NYC Greenways Network Press & Updates
‘Not Acceptable’: Uptown Greenway to Close For 6 Months Without Safe Detour, Streetsblog (September 2024)
Streetsblog: City Unveils Design For Long-Decrepit East Harlem Greenway, Streetsblog (April 2024)
Op-Ed: In the ‘Year of Greenways,’ Let’s Insist on Equity, City Limits (February 2024)
Guide Provides Blueprint To Get More Greenways in New York State, Streetsblog (January 2024)
Op-Ed: NYC Must Bring Some Order to Greenway Upkeeping, NY Daily News, (September 2023)
Big expansion of greenway network coming to NYC, WBGO (October 2023)
Underfunded Parks Dept. Should Offload Greenway Maintenance to DOT, Advocates Say, Streetsblog(July 2023)
The Addabbo Bridge Protected Bike Lane Is Almost Here, Streetsblog (June 2023)
Bronx Parks Speak Up, The Bronx Chronicle (April 2023)
State To City: The Time Has Come To Install The Addabbo Bridge Protected Bike Lane, Streetsblog (April 2023)
Letter to NYS Senate: Budget Request for Downstate NY Greenways, (March 2022)
Streetsblog: City Electeds to Albany Leaders: We Want Some of that Greenway Green, Too! Streetsblog (February 2022)
Related: Coalition letter to Governor Kathy Hochul to call for $200 million in funding for downstate greenways, (December 2021)
City moving forward with proposed Queens Greenway connecting parks for cyclists, pedestrians, QNS (February 2022)
Related: NYC Parks Department greenway proposals for Eastern Queens and Southwest Brooklyn (February 2022)
Press Release – CityParks Foundation: NYC Green Relief & Recovery Fund Grants $503,000 to 7 Organizations Promoting Equity in NYC’s Parks and Open Spaces (February 2022)
Advocates call on state to extend Empire State Trail onto Long Island, News12 (September 2021)
Letter to NY Governor Hochul: Budget Request for Downstate NY Greenways, (December 2021)
‘Greenway Stimulus’ Could Bring Boom in Bike and Walking Trails, Bloomberg City Lab (June 2021)
Dream of Connected NYC Greenway Re-Envisioned as Path to COVID Recovery, The City (April 2021)
Letter to NYC Congressional Delegation: Coalition calls for Federal investment to connect NYC Greenways (March 2021)