Support More Parks
in Hunters Point
Sign our petition to make Parcel D into a park for our community!
Hunters Point and Long Island City boast some of the best parks in the city, but we’re lagging behind in amount of park acres per capita because of the surge in new housing. Help us advocate for a publicly owned and managed athletic field to address this ongoing problem. We understand and support the urgent need for truly affordable housing in New York City. But as our community grows, so must our investment in public green space. Parcel D is a City-owned lot between 2nd St, Center Boulevard, and 54th and 55th Avenues that could be made into a publicly-owned multi-use field for the community. Sign our petition to urge NYC to transform the City-owned lot to a park.
Long Island City is one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in the nation, with a population increase of 74% from 2011 to 2023 and over 30,000 new housing units since 2009. Yet despite this explosive growth, access to green space has severely lagged behind. A 2021 Open Space Profile from New Yorkers for Parks ranked Long Island City 57th out of 59 NYC districts in terms of green space—an already dismal ranking that’s only worsened with time. Parcel E across the street from Parcel D is already out to bid to become another tower with affordable housing, but affordable housing residents also deserve quality areas to play and spend time outdoors.
NYC has the opportunity to help address the inequity in park access by listening to the community and turning Parcel D into a multi use active sports field to provide much needed active green space for the fast growing community. The waterfront parks see visitors from throughout Long Island City and beyond, and are well over capacity. Schools in the area need more space for physical education and outdoor activities—something the oval in Hunter’s Point South Park simply cannot accommodate, especially with a new school rising across the street and PS 384 and Hunters Point Middle School just a block away. Outside school hours, the field could be made available to the broader community, similar to the arrangement with the Sports Field in Gantry Plaza State Park.
Please support Hunters Point Parks Conservancy’s efforts to transform Parcel D into a public park instead of another tower by signing the petition below. You can read HPPC’s full statement on Parcel D here.
