Trust for Public Land in New York - 2023

New York THERE IS SO MUCH TO BE PROUD OF IN 2023 AND MORE TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN THE YEAR AHEAD

50 Years and Counting, Thanks to You! Since the beginning, Trust for Public Land’s vision has been rooted in a singular belief: that access to the outdoors is essential to people’s well-being. What started as a bold idea in a small San Francisco office 50 years ago has blossomed into a nationwide movement to ensure everyone, no matter where they live, can experience nature’s countless gifts. At this special milestone, we celebrate the incredible network of TPL advocates who make our work possible and catalyze our future efforts.

With your support, we have preserved iconic landscapes and created urban oases that stand as a testament to the enduring impact of TPL’s work across the country, including thousands of acres along the Appalachian Trail, miles of green corridors through New York City, and over 200 Community Schoolyards®. These are now some of the best-known and most-visited places in the state—places that are bringing neighbors together and fostering a love for the outdoors, while uplifting local economies

and delivering critical, nature-based solutions in the face of climate change.

And we are just getting started! It is an exciting time to be a part of the TPL community, as we look to new opportunities to connect to nature, our histories, and each other. With your enduring support, we will continue to build parks and protect land, making New York and the country a healthier and more equitable place for everyone. Thank you!

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Celebrating Community Schoolyards

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Since 1996, TPL—alongside countless partners—has helped transform nearly 300 schoolyards across the country into thriving parks and community spaces that foster learning and exercise, cool surrounding neighborhoods, reduce flooding, and connect people to the outdoors. In New York City, our work bringing community schoolyards to life has become a nationwide success story worth celebrating.

In densely developed, older cities like New York, built and natural environments must serve as many needs and uses as possible. For many of the 1.1 million students in New York City’s public school system, finding places to play outside of school hours is difficult. This complex situation sparked an ambitious, decades-long plan: reinvent schoolyards across New York City by turning them into parks where children and community members can gather, play, and enjoy the benefits of time spent outside–even during after-school hours.

These schoolyards also play a vital role in mitigating impacts of climate change, capturing stormwater to reduce flooding, and combatting urban heat island effect by increasing tree canopy and replacing heat-capturing blacktop with natural surfaces. In New York City, we have transformed 225 schoolyards across all five boroughs with new custom play areas, athletic courts, gardens, and 4 |

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features for neighbors of every age, such as shaded seating and exercise tracks.

And the community schoolyard movement is only growing!

In 2024, we will open nine new schoolyards across New York City. We will leverage private philanthropy to unlock more than $22 million in public funding for construction alone. With our commitment to research and data collection, we are demonstrating the impact of Community Schoolyards to reach new individual, corporate, and institutional partners as we scale our work across the city.

Our playground remains an asset to not only our school, but the whole community. During and after school hours, the strategically designed playground is an open space where the children can stretch their legs and enjoy fresh air. Neighbors often use the playground, taking their daily strolls on the track, and practicing skills on the field and basketball courts.”

— Sheena Young, teacher, The School of Science and Applied Learning, Bronx

The flowers and trees I drew will be immortalized, and a land acknowledgment statement will remind students, faculty, and the community of our responsibilities to uphold social and environmental justice in the schoolyard where we learn, work, and play.”

— Josh, student, Lab School, and summer 2023 TPL intern © JULIA COCUZ Z A , GROUNDSWELL

Partnerships at Play Our Community Schoolyards are not a product but a process. When creating a schoolyard, we invite the entire school as well as neighbors and local partners to participate. For the NYC Lab Middle School for Collaborative Studies’ playground renovations in Chelsea—opened September 2023—we partnered with Groundswell, youth artists, and students to create a mural for the yard.

Students contributed design concepts including flowers, ribbons of sheet music, and depictions of city life. This collaborative process led to a colorful mural representing unity, intersectionality, and growth.

bringing students, educators, parents, and residents together to create vibrant communities. Our continued success will bring the benefits of nature to millions of New Yorkers and countless neighborhoods across the country as school districts look to TPL and New York City as a model of what schoolyards can achieve.

Building Schoolyards to Last As local needs, technology, and extreme weather patterns have changed, we are returning to some of our earliest schoolyards in New York City to ensure they continue to serve their communities as intended. We are working with the NYC Department of Environmental Protection to update these schoolyards with green infrastructure elements like turf fields, trees, and bioswales that improve the climate resilience of surrounding neighborhoods.

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This year, in partnership with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, we returned to The Pacific School (P.S. 38K) in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, a 20-year-old TPL schoolyard, to retrofit its existing amenities. Collaborating with students, administration, and community members, we designed a green infrastructure playground that will capture over 1.2 million gallons of stormwater annually. The updated schoolyard boasts a turf field, running track, green roof gazebo, outdoor classroom, garden beds, and play equipment.

Your sustained support is vital to our efforts in New York City. Together, we will transform more schoolyards,

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Connective Corridors The QueensWay Vision: As Ambitious as They Come In Queens, TPL is working with NYC Parks to transform a 3.5-mile stretch of abandoned railway into a revitalized, thriving green corridor. The QueensWay will become a multi-use trail equipped with pocket parks and recreational amenities for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to enjoy, including 73,000 kids who will have access to a safer, greener route to and from school. In September 2022, Mayor Eric Adams released the city budget plan, including $35 million to design the first phase of the QueensWay. Developing this green corridor will reduce urban heat island effect and also tackle transportation emissions by connecting bike and pedestrian corridors throughout the city with seven subway lines, a commuter rail station, and the Woodhaven bus rapid transit line.

When the QueensWay is complete, neighbors will be re-connected, air quality will improve, and local businesses will get a much-needed boost. Residents will finally have a safe and beautiful place to bike, jog, or take a stroll.”

— Travis Terry, steering committee member, Friends of the QueensWay

Long Island Greenway: A Path to Success As Long Island looks to the future, a long-distance trail will attract residents, businesses, and visitors and benefit millions of people. TPL, in partnership with local stakeholders and residents, is leading the design of the Long Island Greenway. This nearly 200-mile multi-use trail traversing the length of Long Island will connect residents (including Brooklyn and Queens) to the Empire State Trail, adjoin 26 state and local parks and several transit connections, and change how all New Yorkers play, commute, and connect with nature.

TPL is on track to complete the design of the trail’s first section in 2024, stretching 25 miles from Eisenhower Park in Nassau County to Brentwood State Park in Suffolk County. This year, we began designing Section 2—a 50-mile stretch connecting Riverhead to Montauk. Since 2019, TPL has leveraged $900,000 in philanthropy to secure $8.2 million in public funds for the Greenway.

WE CANNOT DO IT WITHOUT YOU. The QueensWay and Long Island Greenway will provide safe routes for commuters, welcoming pathways, and nature-rich spaces for families and friends to gather. Your support will help make these trails a reality for 8.1 million New Yorkers. © BROOK E BR AGGER

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Investing in New York’s Future Environmental Bond Act: Realizing a Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity In November 2022, New Yorkers overwhelmingly passed the Clean Water, Clean Air, Green Jobs Bond Act, a once-in-ageneration opportunity to improve quality of life, modernize infrastructure, and safeguard clean drinking water. The largest environmental bond act in state history will provide $4.2 billion for land conservation, parks, and water infrastructure. Forty percent of funding is dedicated to projects in communities disproportionally affected by local pollution and climate change. These investments will create nearly 100,000 green jobs to protect the state’s natural resources and upgrade aging infrastructure.

Protecting Land Along the Appalachian Trail America’s most iconic long-distance hiking trail, the Appalachian Trail (A.T.) stretches from Georgia to Maine and hosts 3 million annual visitors. The trail’s historic footpath is protected, but surrounding land, wildlife, and communities face threats from development. TPL is partnering with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and the National Park Service to protect the trail at its most vulnerable sections.

In the rapidly developing town of Beekman in Dutchess County, we are working with the A.T. Landscape Partnership to protect Depot Hill and Camp Ludington. The two properties lie within 50 feet of the A.T. footpath and buffer the area’s viewshed and soundscape. Permanently protecting these spaces will provide recreational access to over 500 acres of pristine upland forests and wetlands adjacent to the A.T. footpath. These lands have the power to lower air temperature, protect watersheds, and absorb floodwater, and can reduce the very driver of climate change by removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. TPL purchased these properties in June 2023 and will transfer them to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

We envision a future where everyone can enjoy the benefits of nature. Together, we are ensuring New Yorkers can experience these treasured landscapes for generations to come.

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Parks and protected natural areas continue to demonstrate their immense worth to provide clean air, water, habitats, and climate resilience. There’s so much power in asking voters to vote ‘YES’ for conservation, which is why Americans of all political stripes voted to protect and expand access to the outdoors.”

— Will Abberger, Director of Conservation Finance

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NEW YORK ADVISORY BOARD We are so grateful for our volunteers and leaders.

Graeme E. Daykin, Vice Chair, President and Partner, Magnitude Jennifer Geiling, President, 1digit, LLC Steven G. Horowitz, Senior Advisor, New City Parks Sarah Jackson Rafique Jiwani, Vice President, Private Equity, Goldman Sachs Jennifer Jones,* Director of Creative Content and Grants Management in the Development Office, The Rockefeller University Vincent Lee, Principal, Arup Elizabeth (Beth) A. Maher Phil G. Meeks, Former Exec VP/President, Spectrum Business Enterprise at Charter Communications Kristen Owen, Executive Director, Oppenheimer & Co. David Poppe,* President, Giverny Capital Asset Management David Ragins, Managing Director, Clarion

Pictured left to right: Steve Horowitz, Jonathan Wiesner, Lisa Sarajian, Beth Maher, Graeme Daykin, David Ragins © STEPHAN HUDSON

Capital Partners, LLC Lisa Sarajian, Chair, Former Managing Director, Standard & Poor’s Keats Sexton, Executive Director, UBS Sharon Lyu Volckhausen, Vice President, Tiger Baron Foundation Jonathan Wiesner, CEO and Founder, Phenix Strategic Partners

THANK YOU for helping improve the health, equity, and climate outcomes for communities in New York and beyond.

We could not do this without you.

*National Board

Jennifer Papronta Director of Philanthropy, New York jennifer.paprotna@tpl.org 917.690.4658

Join us Help ensure everyone has access to the outdoors. Every park we create, schoolyard we transform, trail we extend, and landscape we protect is thanks to supporters like you. tpl.org/donate/ny

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