Zebadiah Nelson spends nearly every afternoon at the Marx Brothers Playground in Manhattan’s East Harlem, practicing baseball and football with his friends. With the park, we have another place that we can always go.”While Nelson and others who enjoy Marx Brothers Playground consider it a park, it technically isn’t. Part of that development—which includes new schools—would be on the current Marx Brothers Playground site. The park advocates have also raised concerns that city officials—who are desperate to build more affordable apartments to alleviate a housing crisis—could identify other jointly operated playgrounds as sites for future developments. “The average person would never know that these are not New York City parks,” Mr. Grodenchik said.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 25, 2018 23:15 UTC