A new report finds a shortage of courts, fields and swimming pools in some New York City neighborhoods.
Now, New Yorkers living in so-called “recreation deserts” are asking for a level playing field.
What the report says
A new report from the Center for an Urban Future points to a shrinking city budget for recreation and uneven access across neighborhoods.
“We’re living in a time now where New Yorkers are moving less than they were even a decade ago, where social isolation and loneliness have reached epidemic proportions, and in so many ways, the cure for a lot of what ails us is recreation,” co-author Eli Dvorkin said. “But what our report shows is that, A, recreation as a share of the city’s parks budget has steadily slipped over not just years but decades, and, B, that there are neighborhoods across New York City that have far less access to public recreation than the citywide average.”…