1. Dozens of Other Smaller Buildings and Potential Small Parks owned by the Parks Department

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According to testimony by the nonprofit 596 Acres, their volunteers have uncovered 35 vacant public NYC Parks buildings, and 27 places in New York City where land in the inventory of the NYC Parks Department is idle and inaccessible. That could potentially be a large number of neighborhood parks, community centers, and public bathrooms in the future.

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