According to the NY Daily News, kids in Boro Park have the least amount of playgrounds.
In Bay Ridge, the reports estimates 83 kids per acre of parkland – the most green space per child in Brooklyn. Meanwhile, in East Flatbush, families are faced with 2,497 kids per park acre, and in Borough Park it’s even worse, with a whopping 2,658 kids per acre, both among the highest concentrations in the city.
The report, by the Citizens’ Committee for Children, found that access to everything from health care to clean streets and good schools varies widely across Brooklyn.
Take Bay Ridge, for example, which earned the top spot in the borough for being the most kid-friendly. Along with its ample park space, researchers found that the southern Brooklyn neighborhood, where the median household income is $54,328, has among the lowest child asthma hospitalizations in the city.
(NY Daily News)
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The Mayor has proposed upgrading schoolyard playgrounds and opening them to the public. Will that do much to change this statistic? Or are the numbers this way largely due to the extremely dense population in Borough Park?
I recommend the mayor pay a visit next Sunday to the recently re-opened 18th Ave park. Although the park is indeed beautiful and the kids enjoy it immensely this park is way to small for all of boro park! For anyone going by it looks as if there is a “halika” of some sort going on there! We need more parks! Period. Although there is a park at 43rd street and 10th either the park is packed with our dear illegal immigrants or there is a group of Spanish speaking hooligans playing football over our double strollers! So I repeat WE NEED MORE PARK SPACE in BORO PARK! How about making use of the eminent domain laws and get a few apartment buildings demolished say, like at 15th and 50th… think of all the parking space this would create……..
maybe someone wants to upgrade the roofs of buildings with some playgrounds
at least that will keep the kids from running around in the street