Decaying buildings are being resuscitated, museums renovated, parks restored, roads and tramways rebuilt.
Since 1993, he said, the agency has invested more than $1 billion in capital improvements to parks, restored 2,200 acres of forest and wetlands and bestowed 9,850 so-called noms de parc to staff members, volunteers and supporters of the agency.
Nothing urban would be more likely to evoke disgust than a study promoting a benign picture of Bloomberg's New York — even though, in reality, that city was relatively peaceful (and self-healing from the worst war wound in its history) and prosperous (if more and more unevenly so), with the parks restored or expanding and the subways so safe that they became crowded at two or three in the morning.
Parks restored a single-point advantage with a neatly taken drop goal, only for that to be cancelled out by an eighth Laidlaw penalty.
The Blues fly-half then added a drop-goal to give the home side a lead for the first time before Parks restored Connacht's lead with his second penalty, making it 10-9 thethe visitors as the opening period ended.
You might focus on literacy, education, after school programs, tutoring, cleaning up parks, restoring historical buildings or preparing taxes for low income families.
It demands that the agreement between the Parks Department and Lincoln Center be terminated, that the park be restored and no longer be used for nonpark purposes and that any concession revenue from the park be paid into the city's general fund.
The golf course at the northern edge of the park was restored to its original purpose and is busy – 37,000 rounds were played there last year, according to City Park officials.
Sport is either off the park or restored by some kind of subscription initiative.
Originally the estate of a wealthy 18th-century merchant, the park was restored by the founder of the Mitsubishi conglomerate, Yataro Iwasaki, and given to the city in 1924 by his family.
If you've a taste for irony, or just a hankering for fresh air, take a winter stroll in the Summer Gardens 3, the city's oldest and most elegant park – recently restored.
