Trust for Public Land in New York - 2021 by Trust for Public Land

The Trust for Public Land in New York THERE IS SO MUCH TO BE PROUD OF

in 2021

AND MORE TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE YEAR AHEAD

The Trust for Public Land Completed playground project

Appalachian National Scenic Trail

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Parks, open space, or other protected land**

Other completed park development* project

CANADA

American Indian land Military land

Grasse River Forest

City center

Current project

VERMONT

Thousand Islands

*Park development/restoration, Fitness Zone®, garden, trail, or greenway.

Goodman B

Otterbrook

Completed land protection project

WATERTOWN

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Black River

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Appalachian National Scenic Trail

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Seneca Falls

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ITHACA

Selkirk Farm

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Pine Lake

MASSACHUSETTS

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Harvey Mountain

Finger Lakes National Forest

General Morris State Park

ALBANY

Eminence State Forest

Hunter's Creek (Kenneglenn)

LAKE ERIE

Tracy Lake

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Bare Hill

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Hunt House

Woodlawn Beach

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Foster Farm

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Bentley Farm

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Buffalo Parks and

Sterling Site Camp Beechwood

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ROCHESTER

Salmon Creek 190

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Braddock Bay Gosnell Big Woods Preserve

Huffer Road

Yates Town Park

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L A K E O N TA R I O

Henderson Point

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CONNECTICUT

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Depot Hill (Camp Ludington, Grapehollow)

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South Hollow

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Walkill Walkway Middletown Reservoir Trails

Shawangunk

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Pochuck Mountain

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PENNSYLVANIA

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Hyde Ten Mile Park River Milton Riverfront Park Corbin Hill

Lundy Estate Awosting Reserve

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Callicoon Riverside Park

(land protection completed in June 2021)

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In New York, The Trust for Public Land has completed 315 park development/garden/trail/playground projects and 225 land protection projects (protecting 123,852 acres of land).

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Catskill Center Mt. Tobias Trailways Ticeteneyck Mountain Kain Farm

Tommanex

Plateau Mountain

Chautauqua

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HUDSON RIVER

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Great Kills

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Mott Estate

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Sharrotts Road Shoreland

Decker Farm

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Idlewild Park

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St. Francis Woodlands

Latourette Park

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Harbor Herons

PS 37Q, St. Albans

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Eibs Pond

Pouch Camp III

MuscootSchwarz Harbor Croton Easement Landing Dam Cox Kitchawan Farm Kolping Society Park Cascade Preserve Lake High Tor Sterling Forge Shadow Lake Johnsontown State Park Croton Landing Waterfront Park Road Davenport Crumm Creek Sterling Preserve Forest Pocantico Torne West Hook Marydell Lake Pierson Lakes Valley Mountain Glenville Clauseland Woods White Plains Mountain (Silver Lake) NEW Taxter Ridge Gaisman JERSEY White Hillside Woods Plains 0 5 10 Miles Greenway Mariner's Point !

MS 445K/PS 295K, Sunset Park West Upper

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Heritage Park NewBayYork Grymes Hill

Atlantic Ocean

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Juan Morel Secondary School, IS 71, Williamsburg

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East River State Park

Graniteville Quarry

Tilly Foster Farm

Fahnestock State Park

Goose Pond Mountain

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Stonewall National Monument

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Wonder Lake

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Middletown Reservoir Trails

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LOWER HUDSON

Ballantyne

Udall's Cove

PS 98Q, Douglaston

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Tudor City Parks

Wertheim

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PS 111Q, Queensbridge/Ravenswood

Jamesport State Park Cove Hollow Farm

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Long Island Greenway

Pouch Camp III

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NEW JERSEY

PS 132X, Claremont-Bathgate PS 107X, Soundview

IS 267/IS 327X, Longwood

Sagamore Hill

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New York CO MPLETED AND CURRENT PROJECTS October 15, 2021. Copyright © The Trust for Public Land. The Trust for Public Land and The Trust for Public Land logo are federally registered marks of The Trust for Public Land. Information on this map is provided for purposes of discussion and visualization only. www.tpl.org

THANK YOU FOR PARTNERING WITH US IN NEW YORK TPL STAFF

M.S. 354K

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY

As a Trust for Public Land supporter, you are contributing to healthy, equitable, resilient communities. Like you, we believe that green spaces are precious and that everyone deserves access to nature. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores that closeto-home parks are crucial to a community’s quality of life. Thanks to your support, New Yorkers have had Community Schoolyards™, parks, and trails to turn to during this difficult time. But this mass movement outdoors also exposed that not everyone has equal access to the outdoors, and irreplaceable open land is threatened by development. As our state recovers, equitable access to nature’s myriad benefits is more important than ever. Now is the time to champion the pivotal role of parks in addressing inequities, ensuring that the healing power of the outdoors is available to all. The Trust for Public Land is committed to advancing equity, health, and climate resilience through nature in every community we serve. Since 1972, across America, we have created

more than 5,000 parks and green spaces, safeguarded more than 3.7 million acres, put a park within a 10-minute walk of home for more than 9 million people, and generated more than $85 billion in public funding for parks, trails, and open spaces. In New York, your support ensures that we can continue to protect and create green spaces that are accessible to all. You are helping address climate change, public health, and equity challenges. Without you, we could not have protected 225 special places and over 123,000 acres of land, built more than 215 Community Schoolyards, and provided access to a quality close-to-home park for over 5 million people. Thank you for creating happier, healthier neighborhoods where all people can thrive!

EQUITABLE ACCESS TO NATURE IN NEW YORK CITY

Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY

BEFORE AFTER Studies show that spending time in nature can reduce stress, depression, and anxiety, lower obesity rates and blood pressure, and improve concentration, communication, and relationship skills. Unfortunately, New York City’s communities of color have 33.5 percent less park space than whiter neighborhoods, and low-income communities have 21.1 percent less park space than wealthier neighborhoods. These inequities were especially felt during the pandemic shutdown. We developed the New York City Park Equity Plan to help build a vibrant, equitable future through high-quality parks. Innovative green spaces are also drivers of economic recovery—a recovery we need to start now. By investing in parks, we can leverage federal funding and create much-needed construction and maintenance jobs. We are calling on our elected leaders to partner with us to: • Achieve 100 percent of residents living within a 10-minute walk to a park. • Transform 100 Community Schoolyards by 2030. • Close the park equity gap in high-need, underserved neighborhoods.

COMMUNITY SCHOOLYARDS ™ Transforming overheated, vacant, and uninspiring asphalt schoolyards into vibrant public city parks is the “right-now” solution to New York City’s park equity problem. Green and inviting Community Schoolyards maximize health and wellness benefits and improve student learning and the quality of life for nearby residents. Our schoolyards also have climate and environmental superpowers, reducing temperatures and capturing stormwater to prevent flooding—key to helping New York prepare for climate change. During the 2020–21 school year, students at five campuses took part in our signature participatory design process: P.S. 37Q in Jamaica and P.S. 98Q in Douglaston, Queens; P.S. 132X and Bronx Latin in Morrisania and P.S. 107X in Soundview, Bronx. We also opened four playgrounds in fall 2021: P.S. 2M in Chinatown, Manhattan; I.S. 7R in Huguenot, Staten Island; and P.S. 223Q in Jamaica and Pan Am International High School in Elmhurst, Queens.

TPL ARCHIVES, ALEX A HOYER

P.S. 377K

EQUITABLE COMMUNITIES FUND Across America, one-third of the people living in the U.S. do not have a park within a 10-minute walk of home. The Trust for Public Land is changing this by creating a future where the benefits of nature are available to everyone, energizing communities through parks and nature to drive active social change.

Our work at P.S. 107X addresses at least one social determinant of health: access to green space. With the community and students, we are designing the campus to offer state-of-the-art play equipment, athletic facilities, a garden, an outdoor classroom, and opportunities for environmental education. In addition, making the space accessible to the entire community after school and on the weekends will put nearly 15,000 residents within a 10-minute walk of a quality park.

We launched the Equitable Communities Fund (ECF) to energize the efforts of disadvantaged and historically marginalized communities nationwide. ECF will accelerate community-led action to address systemic inequities in public spaces nationwide and provide resources, capacity, data advocacy, and financial support to create healthier, stronger, more livable communities for generations to come.

P.S. 107X COMMUNITY SCHOOLYARD Growing scientific data demonstrates the connection between access to the outdoors and health outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to what we already knew: Our zip code is more predictive of health outcomes than our genetic code. Residents in Soundview, Bronx, feel this every day: More than half of the families in the Soundview area live in poverty, and the Bronx is also the least healthy county in New York State. The inequities are striking: Right next door, Manhattan is among the healthiest counties in the state.

JOE MARTINEZ

Thanks to ECF donors, we are able to award grants to Trust for Public Land projects across the country to advance toward shovel-ready status. We are thrilled to announce P.S. 107X Elementary School in Soundview, Bronx, was awarded $50,000 to help transform its 1.6-acre lot into an inspiring Community Schoolyard.

Transforming P.S. 107X will help prevent local flooding. The campus will feature a permeable turf field, pervious pavers, a green-roofed gazebo, trees, and bioswales. These green infrastructure elements will capture 2.5 million gallons of stormwater per year. In addition to preventing local flooding, it will also protect people from poor air quality and extreme heat and heat stress illness.

P.S. 156

Brownsville, Brooklyn, NY

OUTDOORS FOR ALL STE VE A ARON PHOTOGR APHY

Sterling Lake

Sterling Forest State Park, NY

NEW YORK OUTDOOR ACCESS FUND The Trust for Public Land is committed to preserving New York’s land for future generations. We have helped create some of the state’s most iconic parks—Sterling Forest, Minnewaska, and Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Parks. We have also protected the iconic Appalachian Trail and critical watersheds for New York City. Unfortunately, New York land is increasingly under threat. That is why we established the New York Outdoors Access Fund so we can act quickly and take on complex land protection efforts to protect our natural wonders and resources. The Outdoor Access Fund will support exciting new land conservation efforts, such as Depot Hill and Camp Ludington in Dutchess County. Here, we are working with the Girl Scouts and a private seller to protect two large landholdings. Our efforts will convey over 500 acres of climateresilient upland forest to the state and buffer the Appalachian Trail, which is more critical than ever as climate change drives animals to migrate northward and to higher elevations. By exploring, securing, and conserving land, we are fighting sprawl development in the largest

metropolitan area in the country, capturing harmful pollutants, preserving safe passages for wildlife, and ensuring close-to-home access to nature that families can enjoy together.

LAND PROTECTION IN CALLICOON In Sullivan County, residents love the broad Catskill Mountain views, lush forests, rolling farmland, and the ecologically important Delaware River, rich with trout and a source of drinking water for millions of people. However, with increasing interest as a holiday destination, more and more land is under threat of development, closing off access to the river. That is why the Trust for Public Land aims to build a new riverfront park in the hamlet of Callicoon. By creating a deal between the sellers of an old RV park and the town, county, and state governments, we are ensuring this special place can be enjoyed by all. Last year, we completed the park master plan with the community and identified a community friends group to partner with local officials to build and then maintain the new vibrant park. We hope this success will inspire future land protection efforts in this beautiful corner of our state.

A LETTER FROM THE NEW YORK ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR You may know The Trust for Public Land from our work to preserve the first national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights at Stonewall Inn. Or from our hundreds of Community Schoolyard™ transformations. Or maybe you know us best for our land protection efforts across the Hudson River Valley, which have saved more than 51,000 acres in the region. But what matters most is that you know your support helps us partner with communities to preserve the places that have the greatest natural and historic value. As The Trust for Public Land approaches its 50th anniversary in 2023, I’m reflecting on the power of the organization’s land-for-people mission and asking myself, what would life be like without your support of that mission? Communities across the state would be cut off from riverfronts and trails. New York City residents would lack close-to-home access to playgrounds and parks. Public lands would be destroyed to make way for golf courses and luxury homes. Thankfully, because of you, we don’t have to speculate what might happen if The Trust for Public Land couldn’t empower communities to create a bold vision for their green spaces. The future is bright with possibilities because of you. From advocating for the Long Island Greenway to creating plans for a more climate-resilient state to transforming an additional 100 barren asphalt schoolyards into vibrant city parks by 2030 to accelerating our land protection efforts, we couldn’t do this work without you! I’m excited about the impact we’ll have together in the next year. Jonathan Wiesner, Chair of the New York Advisory Board

New York Advisory Board We are so grateful for our volunteer leaders. Ibrahim Abdul-Matin Melissa Abramson Vanessa Barboni Hallik Graeme Daykin Craig Dessen Jennifer Geiling Steven G. Horowitz Sarah Jackson Tom Javits Jennifer Jones Vincent Lee Beth A. Maher Phil G. Meeks Jeanne Mullgrav Miles Pincus David Poppe* David Ragins Michael Samuelian Lisa Sarajian Rohan Singal Sharon Lyu Volckhausen Jonathan Wiesner, Chair

* Also serves on National Board

TPL ARCHIVES

BACK COVER: TROY FARMER • FRONT COVER: TPL ARCHIVE; STE VE A ARON PHOTOGR APHY; ALEX A HOYER; TIMOTHY SCHENCK; ALEX A HOYER

Funding opportunities Our work is possible thanks to the generosity of individuals, foundations, and corporations. Support our work today:

• The Trust for Public Land, New York: Support our land-for-people mission in New York. • NY Outdoor Access Fund: Preserve nature across the state. • Long Island Greenway: Extend the Empire State Trail to connect Long Islanders and all New Yorkers to outdoor spaces to live healthy lives. • Community Schoolyards™: Transform barren schoolyards into vibrant, green community spaces for learning and play. • Leave a legacy: Create an even bigger impact by making a gift through your will, trust, charitable gift annuity, charitable remainder trust, beneficiary designation, or appreciated assets.

Join us Help ensure everyone has access to the outdoors. Every park we create, schoolyard we transform, trail we extend, and landscape we protect is thanks to supporters like you.

tpl.org/donate

Carter Strickland Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region & New York State Director 718.938.3907 | carter.strickland@tpl.org Jennifer Paprotna Director of Philanthropy, New York 917.690.4658 | jennifer.paprotna@tpl.org 632 Broadway, Suite 902 New York, NY 10012