Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $124.7 billion spending plan unveiled this week includes a plan to cut 100 uniformed officers’ jobs patrolling the city’s green spaces this summer, The Post has learned.
The proposed budget would effectively cut more than a third of the roughly 300 boots-on-the-ground Parks Enforcement Patrol (PEP) staff for the entire city, critics said – and create a massive gap in the city’s public safety system.
“Every neighborhood park would be affected,” Adam Ganser, executive director of the New Yorkers for Parks advocacy group, fumed to The Post.
“Safety in our parks is a critical quality of life issue,” he added, “which is why we are calling on the admin to baseline the existing 100 PEP officers who will otherwise lose their jobs in July, and for the council to fund an additional 100 PEP officers.”…