Sentences with phrase «into public parks»

Today is the fifth annual PARK (ing) Day, a day where artists, activists and citizens temporarily transform metered parking spaces in cities around the globe into public parks and other social spaces.

At the zoomed - in level, color - coded sections of the Greenspace Map divide the green space into public parks, private gardens, children's play areas, sports areas, green corridors, and other categories.

Back into schools, back into public parks, back into care for veterans, back to help homeless and feed hungry kids.

This is the second Yankee Stadium — the site of the original has been turned into a public park.

There were plans to build a 35 - story apartment building on the site before the City of Highland Park bought the property and made it into a public park.

GREAT KILLS — The transformation of a former Staten Island landfill into a public park has been started with the planting of the first trees.

Also at 11 a.m., NYC Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, Community Board 2 and residents announce that the City Council secured funding to purchase and renovate the former Phipps playground in Sunnyside and turn it into a public park, 50th Street and 39th Avenue, Queens.

Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) said the $ 75,000, which they were awarded in conjunction with the town of Ausable, is helpful in their efforts to transform a slice of riverfront property into a public park, replete with green space and walkable trails.

A puppy mill where animals suffer greatly for the sake of man's greed; dogfights where animals are used as bait or combatants for the purpose of entertainment or gambling; a batch of 19 puppies only days old thrown into a public park to be mauled or killed during the night because they were unwanted (only eight survived).

His once private home turned into a public park and zoo now called Baluarte.

Summer is the time for so many outdoor art activities in New York, and perhaps one of the most popular destinations in the city is the High Line, the former train tracks that were turned into a public park in Chelsea and the Meatpacking District.

For years Village Trustee Jeremiah Quinlan and a volunteer group called Friends of the Old Hastings Marble Quarry have advocated turning this historic site into a public park with a trail connection down to the river.

Extreme amounts of dust and loud noise well beyond the legal limits they say have become unbearable for Ajami residents, some living right on the shore of the Ajami beach which is recently become part of new development project — to turn heaps of rubble into a public park.

Here in Florida, a small plane crashed into a public park recently, reportedly just missing an apartment building along the way.

Not exact matches

The user currently parks in public garages, and hopes to one day drive the van into the woods or the mountains.

He says he chose the parks as sign locations due to the city's recent free public Wi - Fi campaign, which is seeking to turn parks and plazas into laptop - ready meeting spots.

Poor people get shoved out of public parks and into the street.

Bo pulls the Lexus into the parking lot of Olomana Golf Links, an 18 - hole public course in a valley between vertiginous mountains that have clumps of mist clinging to the peaks.

He dumped sixes, The Mail recorded, «on to the tops of marquees, over ice - cream vans, into factories and, on one occasion, almost into the car park of the Dog and Duck public house.»

The city of Chicago, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago Park District and The Trust for Public Land have joined forced to convert abandoned railroad space along the once bustling Bloomingdale Line into much - needed community green space for residents and visitors.

Board members asked members of the village staff to look into the viability of the park land and seek out any other parcels that could be used for public works storage.

For instance, small businesses pay sales tax in the community, which filters into the school system, public parks, roads and local service workers.

«The school district's maintenance staff would have moved to the village's Public Works Building at 201 South Blvd., and the park district's staff would move into the District 97 maintenance building at 514 Madison St.

But the thaw has forced the River North resident and her two dogs to step into a whole new problem: dog waste no longer camouflaged by snow on public walkways, parks and in other high traffic areas.

Park district officials have been gathering public input on the idea of turning Five Seasons into a community center since April, when they announced an opportunity to purchase the local health club and the 17 acres of land it stands on for about $ 20.3 million.

The Adler Planetarium's plan to raise admission fees by $ 2 across the board has turned into a political issue, with the Chicago Park District putting off a vote after a powerful alderman demanded a public hearing Tuesday.

A second - grade teacher and an assistant principal have been removed from student contact at Jordan Elementary Community School in the Rogers Park neighborhood while Chicago Public Schools conducts an investigation into their conduct.

The Park District made the decision halfway through a public meeting that packed 300 people into the gymnasium of the Loyola Park fieldhouse.

New park facilities planned for 1999 include the completion of a 12 - acre park in Chinatown, to be called Ping Tom Park in honor of the community leader who pushed for turning the stretch of industrial wasteland into a riverfront property for public park facilities planned for 1999 include the completion of a 12 - acre park in Chinatown, to be called Ping Tom Park in honor of the community leader who pushed for turning the stretch of industrial wasteland into a riverfront property for public park in Chinatown, to be called Ping Tom Park in honor of the community leader who pushed for turning the stretch of industrial wasteland into a riverfront property for public Park in honor of the community leader who pushed for turning the stretch of industrial wasteland into a riverfront property for public use.

Northbrook Park District is holding two public meetings, on May 20 and May 21, to get input on the idea of converting the local Five Seasons Sports into a community center.

Kathryn «Katy» Graham grew up in a political family, and her interest in public service and physical fitness evolved into 30 years on the Arlington Heights Park District Board.

Tuesday evening marked the last in a series of Chicago Park District meetings to gather public views on how to convert Northerly Island, a 78 - acre peninsula, into a nature park — as Daley long has wanPark District meetings to gather public views on how to convert Northerly Island, a 78 - acre peninsula, into a nature park — as Daley long has wanpark — as Daley long has wanted.

The Alsip Park District, village government, Chamber of Commerce and Public Library worked together to transform the center into «Christmas Around the World,» featuring holiday scenes from England, the United States circa 1950, Ireland and the Orient.

Parents should also take into consideration the amount of abuse the equipment will take when used in crowded public spaces, parking lots, and in winter weather.

Last June, the park district offered to assume the club «s $ 375,000 debt and turn the private club, with its Olympic - size swimming pool, 11 tennis courts and a clubhouse, into a public recreational facility.

OccupyDC has destroyed a public park in the middle of the city and turned it into a filthy squatters» camp full of rats.

«In states across America, legislators have been pressured into a toxic game of cross-border business poaching that drives millions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to wealthy executives — draining funds we need to invest in infrastructure, schools, parks, and other public goods that is the bedrock of economic health.»

«One of the tools in our toolbox is to incorporate basic fitness equipment into some of our public parks, so that those who are so inclined can incorporate them into their fitness routines.

Sucked from suburban office parks and dropped into downtown sheet rock monoliths built by politically connected developers with lashings of public money.

But it has no formal public access, despite conversations that date back 20 years to turn the property into a park.

After a public outcry Paterson reopened the parks, covering the cost of operation by dipping into the state's Environmental Protection Fund.

The Buffalo public school district's adult education division, in cooperation with the South Buffalo Education Center, has moved a program into South Park High School where those who did not earn a high school diploma can now do so.

Quinn asked for specific provisions to the new rules including the automatic renewal of licenses for gardening groups that are fully compliant with Parks Department rules, the translation of relevant public notices into all languages necessary for the communities supporting them, and a mechanism that would allow GreenThumb — a Parks Department group charged with overseeing community gardens — a 180 - day grace period to find and license new patrons for gardens abandoned by the groups operating them.

Last week, the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency had expressed concerns about the environmental impact of the tanker cars and pledged to look into «all legal and regulatory options to ensure the environment and the public are protected.»

The Albright - Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo plans to sink its parking lot beneath a restored public green space along Elmwood Avenue, radically reconfigure much of Gordon Bunshaft's low - lying 1962 addition into a grand public entry hall and create 23,000 square feet of new gallery space split between two new buildings that pay deference to the surrounding parkland.

Investments in key streets, parks, and public spaces can strengthen connections to the river, improve access to open space, and transform Ninth and 10th Avenues into safer, greener, and more visually appealing corridors.

CITY HALL — Concluding the city's seven - month review of Rudin Management's plans to turn the former St. Vincent's Hospital site into luxury condos, retail space and a public park, the City Council voted nearly unanimously Wednesday afternoon to approve the developer's plans.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said he was prompted get involved in the crackdown after his Twitter feed was «filled with pictures of public employee parked into dangerous areas» like bus stops, bike lanes and cross walks.

During the meeting, Borough President Katz also noted the one year anniversary of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan's April 15, 2015 launch and outlined major milestones of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan in the past year, including the activation of the Bronx - Flushing - Jamaica Q44 Select Bus Service that serves 44,000 New Yorkers daily; the newly - restored paths at Rufus King Park that are part of the first phase of the Park's major capital improvements; redesigned storefronts of local businesses along Sutphin Boulevard (with more on the way); a $ 138,000 «Building Community Capacity» grant toward the formation of the Jamaica Arts Alliance; the release of an RFP to activate the 168th Street Garage into a new, mixed - use development, with the City to announce the winning bid shortly; the launch of the «Jamaica Avenue Streetscape Improvements» study to determine the cost and scope of additional seating, increased plantings and improved pedestrian circulation in the area; and free public Wi - Fi on track by July in the Downtown Jamaica Corridor, the first area in Queens to host LinkNYC.

Two Yale University students are transforming two New Haven street parking spaces into temporary public spaces.