The Parks War

In calling newly-hired and trained gardeners a "privately leveraged army," yesterday's New York Times extended the proud tradition of military imagery from the War on Drugs, the War on Illiteracy and the War on Terror (which actually is a military endeavor...in party) to...The War on Parks?

Well, just like the French and Indian War did not pit the French and Native Americans against each other, the Parks War doesn't feature anybody attacking the parks. Rather, the war is to defend these vital open spaces from the long, cold seige of indifference and neglect that has left parks and playgrounds in too many neighborhoods with broken water fountains, locked restrooms and fields littered in broken glass.

The "army" referred to are the new recruits of the Neighborhood Parks Initiative: gardeners who are being hired onto fulltime, professional contacts using privately leveraged funds and trained in the city's heart, Central Park.

After the training in Central, Jeannette was one gardener who looked at her park, Echo Park in the Bronx, "through all new eyes."

"Now if I see cigarette butts, they got to come up," she explained. "All trash -- get it up." Until she had Central as a point of comparison, she assumed a little litter was par for the parks.

She and her comrades-in-rakes were ushered into neighborhood-parks-in-need by New Yorkers for Parks, which (not coincidentally) runs the Parks1 campaign I'm working on to make NYC Parks #1 in the Nation.

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