Endowments; Parks--Societies, etc.; Civic improvement--Societies, etc.; New York (N.Y.); Parks and Playgrounds Association of the City of New York
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 84
Note
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1908 - The Parks and Playgrounds Association of the City of New York is founded when the Brooklyn Society for Parks and Playgrounds, the New York Society for Parks and Playgrounds for Children, and the Metropolitan Parks Association join forces. Our i nitial mission is to speak on behalf of children with no parks or playgrounds in their neighborhoods... 1928 - We become the Park Association of New York City after merging with the Battery Park Association and the Central Park Association... 1970 - The Park Association and the Council for Parks and Playgrounds merge into The Parks Council... 2002 - We change our name to New Yorkers for Parks." [SOURCE: "History." New Yorkers for Parks, http://www.ny4p.org/who-we-are/history. Accessed 9 Oct. 2018.]