600 new changing tables installed in New York City Parks’ restrooms

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Photo credit: NYC Parks Department NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue joined Councilmember Rafael Salamanca Jr. at Hunt’s Point Playground in the Bronx on May 9, 2024, to celebrate the successful installation of new baby changing tables in park public restrooms.  … Read More

Central Park Conservancy unveils The Gate of the Exonerated in honor of the Exonerated Five and other wrongly convicted

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Photos credit: Bill Moore On April 20, 1989, the lives of five Black and Latino teenagers, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam, took an unexpected turn when they were arrested by the NYPD and questioned … Read More

16 NYC Parks named after Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, Percy E. Sutton, Lena Horne, Audre Lorde and other Black leaders

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Photos credit: NYC Parks NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, joined on June 16, 2021, New York State Senator Jose M. Serrano, New York State Assembly Member Amanda Septimo, New York City Council Member Vanessa Gibson, and former City … Read More