Steve Hindy suggests a park-funding solution

Dana Rubinstein

How can New York City better fund parks without draining resources from the wealthy conservancies that have transformed greenswards like Central and Prospect parks into urban oases?

It's a question that's bedeviled park advocates ever since Mayor Bill de Blasio, as part of his two-cities campaign, embraced a proposal that would redistribute money from well-funded conservancies to relatively underfunded parks.

Brooklyn Brewery co-founder Steve Hindy, who sits on the board of the Prospect Park Alliance and founded the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, thinks that proposal is a "bad idea."

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