The festivities are intended to draw attention, once again, to the need to re-open the Stanton park building, currently boarded up and used for storage, to community use. The park is seeing an escalation of troubling uses including drug use and trafficking, the children’s playground is avoided by local families, and the closed building sits at the center of this activity. Re-opening the building for programming could have a significant and immediate impact in making the park safe; it can anchor NYC’s efforts to bring climate resiliency to parks and re-establish a welcoming park for all.
