When Private Money Funds Public Parks

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 13, 2015

A new report looks at the pros and cons of conservancies as a model for city park creation and funding. 

Adrian Benepe, senior vice president and director of City Park Development at The Trust for Public Land and former NYC Parks Department commissioner; Tupper Thomas, executive director of New Yorkers for Parks and former president of the Prospect Park Alliance; and Joan Byron, director of policy at the Pratt Center for Community Development and former chair of the Bronx River Alliance, discuss the report's findings.

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