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March 1, 2002

BRONX SPEAK UP

Over 115 people attended the 8 th Annual Bronx Parks Speak Up held at Lehman College on...

February 19, 2002

MANHATTAN IN 2001

Covering the island in green and spreading daffodils throughout are all in a year’s work for...

February 11, 2002

A RING AROUND MANHATTAN

In his State of the City address on January 30, Mayor Bloomberg said, "We must renew our...

December 13, 2001

"THE BATTERY IS COMING BACK!"

Discovery. Settlement. Defense. Commerce. Leisure. Every strand of our civic life has been...

December 12, 2001

STAR EMPLOYEES OF DECEMBER 2001

John S. (Johann) Bachman is Bronx’s Employee of the Month for December....

November 13, 2001

THE LAST SOCCER GOAL OF THE SEASON

Parks’ free Learn-to-Play soccer program concluded for the season on Saturday, November 3...

October 26, 2001

VOLUNTEERS PLANT A CITYWIDE MEMORIAL - ONE MILLION DAFFODIL BULBS TO BLOOM

They asked what they could do to get involved. They waited on blood lines and called hotlines....

September 27, 2001

Letter from Commissioner Stern

Dear Friends of Parks, If ever there was a moment when the value of urban parks was...

September 21, 2001

OUT OF THE SMOKE, A HERO RISES

On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, a day that New Yorkers will remember as a day of...

September 20, 2001

PARKS RESCUES AN ESTIMATED 1,000 ANIMALS

Last week, amid the wreckage of the fallen World Trade Center were live animals trapped in...

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