New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation or shortly NYC Parks is an agency of the City Council New York City, which is responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of public parks in the city. The State Parks ( State Parks ) in the city, such as the Gantry Plaza State Park are managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

History

Before 1934 each of the five boroughs had its own park authorities. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ordered the city planner Robert Moses to combine these into a single authority. This new Department of Parks for New York City took over the administration of the individual authorities. In 1938, the Department is responsible for beaches and sidewalks in Coney Iceland, Rockaway Peninsula and South Beach from Borough Presidents Offices was transferred. The real New York City Department of Parks and Recreation was established in 1976 under Mayor Abraham D. Beame.

Tasks

The Authority manages about 5,000 parks, playgrounds, bike paths and green spaces to about 113 km ², which represents about 14 percent of the city area. This includes more than 800 sports fields, 550 tennis courts, 1,000 playgrounds, 66 swimming pools, 48 recreational facilities, 17 nature centers, 13 golf courses and 20 kilometers of public beach. In addition, about 1,200 monuments, 23 museums and 1.6 million trees will be added in the city. The largest maintained by NYC Parks Park is 11 km ² of Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx. The well-known parks in the city 's Central Park, Prospect Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Flushing Meadows Park and Staten Iceland Greenbelt are from NYC Parks supervised (see also List of parks in New York City).

Park Law Enforcement

In addition to maintaining NYC Park is also responsible for security in the parks. For this purpose, it maintains the Parks Enforcement Patrol ( PEP ) unit. In addition to normal police duties in the parks, there are specialized units such Mounted units, units in the marinas, units which provides for major events for security and search and rescue units.

Urban Park Rangers

The Urban Park Rangers are a group of rangers who take the visitor services in the park. They offer courses by, among others, schools, teachers and support organized events such as Weekend Adventure (Weekend Adventures ) and adventure courses ( Adventure Course ).

Concessions

For all traders in the parks NYC Parks awards licenses and monitors. In 2009, about 500 licenses for the operation of restaurants and kiosks as well as for recreation, making the operation of ice rinks, stables, marinas and golf courses includes, awarded and thus occupied about 110 million U.S. dollars.

General

The general opening times of the park are sunrise to 1 clock at night, the playgrounds are open from 8 clock and sunset.

In addition to the park administration NYC Parks organized many public events such as concerts and film premieres and maintains vehicles, which give in the five districts of free sports equipment such as balls and mini golf club.