New York City reporter and photographer Liam Quigley
Largely restricted from the use of power tools or heavy equipment by the parks department, small teams of volunteers diligently clear catch basins, maintain paths and battle back weeds threatening to crack the concrete on the city’s only velodrome. The post Volunteer groups help maintain NYC parks as budget remains flat appeared first on Liam Quigley .
The city parks department has turned a stretch of Brooklyn s Sunset Park into a de facto garbage dump in order to handle all the trash collected from the popular green space each weekend. The post Summer of smell at Sunset Park: City creates de facto dump at Brooklyn greenspace appeared first on Liam Quigley .
A new private club is slated to open this month at Jacob Riis Park on the Rockaway Peninsula. Dubbed The Peoples Beach, the park has a long history as an informal gathering place for the LGBTQ community. Liam Quigley, parks and sanitation reporter for Gothamist/WNYC, unpacks the status of the project, whose opening has been [ ] The post The private club opening at Jacob Riis, “The People’s Beach”…
The Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are set to lose about 10% of their street parking as the city installs new curbside trash containers to get garbage bags off the sidewalk The post Parts of Manhattan to sacrifice 10% of street parking as NYC installs new trash bins appeared first on Liam Quigley .
The bins could erase 29,842 on-street parking spots by 2032, according to the environmental documents. The sanitation department notes that’s just 1.52% of the city’s 1.96 million legal street parking spots. The post NYC plans to replace nearly 30K parking spaces with trash bins appeared first on Liam Quigley .
City data shows parks department employees reported cops were late to their shifts during 214 pool sessions last summer, which breaks down to nearly three incidents per day over the course of the season. The post Decades-old NYC policy requires NYPD to open public pools, leading to frequent delays appeared first on Liam Quigley .
After nearly a decade-long, $88 million renovation, the long-abandoned 1932 Jacob Riis bathhouse will open this summer as the Rockaway Ocean Club, featuring a members-only pool, concert venue, and eventually a hotel with rooftop restaurant. The post Jacob Riis bathhouse on track to reopen as private club by end of July appeared first on Liam Quigley .
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced five city parks will remain open overnight until July 18 for pickup soccer matches, allowing nocturnal players to compete from 10:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. The post 5 NYC parks to host overnight soccer games throughout World Cup appeared first on Liam Quigley .
Visitors to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park are reporting dead animals in increasing numbers, according to parks department records obtained via a freedom of information request. The post Here are the dead animals New Yorkers found in Prospect Park over the last 4 years appeared first on Liam Quigley .
The basins of nine brass water fountains in Prospect Park were stolen earlier this month, costing the parks department nearly $100,000 in replacement parts and repairs just as temperatures rise for summer. The post Brass thieves wreck Prospect Park water fountains appeared first on Liam Quigley .