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Monday, 1 February, 2021 - 18:45
Kensington Stables trail guide Bill Zimmerman leads horseback riders along a bridle path through Prospect Park, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP) Asharq Al-Awsat
Oases in the best of times, New York City’s parks have served as essential refuges through the hard times of the pandemic havens for the city’s millions who yearn to escape their locked-down apartments, to breathe fresh air and enjoy some elbow room.
Parks Department spokeswoman Crystal Howard said that in the depths of the city’s near-death experience last spring, “the parks became people’s everything.”