"an august group that includes the Make McGuinness Safe Coalition, New Yorkers for Parks, the 34th Ave Open Street Coalition, North Brooklyn Open Streets, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, Municipal Arts Society, Alliance for Paseo Park, AIA NY, WXY, Center for Zero Waste Design, Friends of the QueensWay, Gotham Park, Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, and our own parent company, Open Plans - is demanding that Mayor Mamdani rejigger City Hall to create a new office: the Deputy Mayor for the Public Realm."
"Without resources or insider knowledge, it's near-impossible to create or care for high-quality public spaces, the letter continues. Meanwhile, interagency logjams and silos cause unnecessary delays, leading to sky-high price tags and subpar products. The result is an uneven landscape: thriving parks and open spaces for some, but not all, cutting off countless New Yorkers from the many social, economic, and environmental"
Streetsblog solicits annual tax-deductible donations to support free, high-quality journalism and offers a special gift for top supporters during its fundraiser. The organization frames its mission around advancing efforts to end car dependency and create more livable, walkable, bikeable, equitable cities. Two dozen public-space advocacy groups formed a coalition calling for City Hall reorganization to establish a Deputy Mayor for the Public Realm. The coalition lists numerous civic and design organizations and argues that public spaces are where urban life occurs, that resources and insider knowledge are necessary to create and maintain quality spaces, and that interagency silos produce uneven results and high costs.
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