The groups behind the citys largest parks are lending their much smaller city cousins a lot of green thumbs. <\/p>\n
The parks department said eight conservancies, such as the Central Parks Conservancy, Friends of the Highline and the Prospect Park Alliance, have met or exceeded their combined $15 million commitments to the citys Community Parks Initiative, which launched in 2014 to provide funding and resources to improve smaller parks in the city. <\/p>\n
Kate Spellman, a senior adviser for the parks department, said in addition to providing extra funding, the nonprofits have provided landscape experts and training that will benefit all the open-space locations in the five boroughs. <\/p>\n
Theyre not just going in and completing an improvement and disappearing. Theyre improving with our staff so they are teaching, she said. <\/p>\n
State Sen. Daniel Squadron, who proposed the initiative, predicted that this partnership will grow. <\/p>\n
Our system of parks is strengthened by its conservancies, he said in a statement. <\/p>\n
Some of the improvements made by the conservancies since 2015: <\/p>\n
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