Parks & Open Space

Too often, New York City’s parks, plazas, open streets, schoolyards, and natural areas spaces are managed in silos – subject to fragmented oversight, inconsistent funding, and missed opportunities for coordination and innovation.

Brad will reimagine public space as a citywide system that serves all New Yorkers – connecting parks to plazas, schoolyards to streets, and communities to the green infrastructure they deserve. Back to Issues

  • Over the years, Brad has taken on the unequal distribution of parks and resources throughout New York City. In 2015, Brad sponsored Local Law 98 of 2015 to increase transparency, ensure more equitable distribution of resources, and help address disparities in park conditions across the city. The law required the Parks Department to publish detailed, quarterly data on park maintenance and capital projects.

    Brad also successfully championed Local Law 37 of 2020, which required the development of a user-friendly NYC Capital Projects Tracker to serve as a  management tool to help get New York City’s parks, schools, bridges, and roads built on time and on budget.