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New York City
fromwww.amny.com
1 day ago

MAMDANI'S FIRST 100 DAYS: Mayor opens $141M Shirley Chisholm center, cold snap claims another life | amNewYork

Zohran Mamdani opened the $141 million Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center, providing affordable, accessible facilities and calling it the first of six new recreation centers.
fromLos Angeles Times
5 months ago

Commentary: L.A. parks are too vital to suffer such neglect. Here's your chance to weigh in on a rescue plan

But as I said in my last column, L.A.'s roughly 500 parks and 100 rec centers, occupying 16,000 acres, are generally in bad shape and not easily accessible to many residents. In fact, in the latest annual ranking by the Trust for Public Land, they fell to 90th out of the 100 largest recreation and parks systems in the nation on the basis of access, acreage, amenities, investment and equity.
Los Angeles
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