How We’ll Get There

Follow the Park’s Progress by following the NYC Parks Capital Project Tracker HERE.

Friends of 20th Street Park are engaged in a dialogue with the local community board and elected officials to turn a vacant property into a park that all New Yorkers can enjoy.  In short, we need the City to facilitate a transfer of the property to Parks and Recreation.

For a more in-depth account of the process, keep reading.

Step-by-Step Process

This is what it’s going to take to turn an abandoned sanitation lot into a pocket park.

  1. Council Representative Corey Johnson works with the community on a win-win solution that brings a new park to Chelsea and new affordable housing to his district.
  2. Given all the evidence of increasing residential density in CD3 /Community Board 4, a district that ranks last on several key open space metrics, the Community Board and elected officials endorse the Park Proposal.
  3. The site is transfered over to the NYC Parks Department.
  4. PARKS conducts necessary survey work, soil study, environmental review and capital budgeting.
  5. PARKS hosts a series of community engagement sessions and hears feedback on what local residents would like to see in this open space.
  6. 20th Street Park is designed and built.
  7. SUCCESS! The Chelsea neighborhood celebrates its first new interior playground in over 40 years! Our community district makes meaningful progress on its open space goals and improves quality of life for thousands of residents. New York City moves closer to the PlaNYC vision of a park within a ½ mile, 10-minute walk of all New Yorkers — A community win-win!

You Can Help Us

Learn more about what you can do.