A team of CUNY students are on a mission to map out benches in the city's parks. “This campaign is to document where those benches are, to really demonstrate the lack of public seating in New York City.”
“Many parks were being renovated and were actually losing park benches,” Hidalgo said. “This campaign is to document where those benches are, to really demonstrate the lack of public seating in New York City.”
To do so, Browne and the other fellows divided the park in half and walked it from end to end, taking note of each bench, streetlamp, sprinkler and any other points of interest. They used landmarks to estimate each point’s location on their satellite map printouts, then wrote details about each feature on a corresponding form.Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky/Gothamist, a free public map filled in by volunteers.
Nicholas He, Kyla Browne and Jazzy Smith catalog the benches and light posts in Maria Hernandez Park on March 15, 2023.“Mapping it and being able to walk on foot around it, I feel like I've learned a lot,” she added.
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