This episode is about parks as spaces that restore all of us, how parks were used during the pandemic in new and sometimes unusual ways, and how important open space became to us in New York. Today we are going to talk about New Yorker’s relationships to parks and open space and how they reflect our social environment and our connections to each other.
Our interviews on episode #5:
- First Deputy Commissioner Iris Rodriguez-Rosa;
- Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer Mark Focht;
- Parks Enforcement Patrol Inspector Asha Harris;
- Chief-of-Staff Dan Dougherty;
- Bronx Chief of Operations Lawrence Scoones;
- Park Administrator William Morrison;
- Public Engagement Coordinator Jennifer Graeff.
We record our shows in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at McCarren Play Center in the Media Education Lab. Our team is using the Media Lab and Parks volunteers to share our history with listeners, presenting some of the more than 100 oral history interviews with Parkies.
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