By Kathy Willens •
Updated on February 2, 2021 at 3:34 am
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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 spokesperson Crystal Howard said that in the depths of the city’s near-death experience last spring, “the parks became people’s everything.”
They’ve gone to the parks for music, for art, to work out. Children roam the green spaces, individually and in classes. Bikes cruise the trails, basketballs find the hoops, skates glide across the rinks. In a city still crippled by the coronavirus, the parks are a throwback to better, busier days.
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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.”