Kid Designed Playground

 

The new park is a $1 million investment in the community through the City Spaces program of The Trust for Public Land made possible by lead private funding from the J.M. Kaplan Fund and a two-to-one funding match by the Department of Education.

A new playground in Brooklyn will offer a safe place for kids to play and honor the memory of a fallen community police officer, and after whom the playground is now named. Officer Hennessy served for eight years at the 70th precinct and died in the line of duty. Students at Brooklyn?EUR??,,????'?????<

A team of third- through fifth-grade students, teachers, and parents met for three months to design the one-acre space. They transformed the cracked asphalt lot into a community park that includes basketball courts, an artificial turf field, running track, play equipment, a play spray, and trees. There are nearly 3,000 children under the age of 18 within a quarter-mile of the school. The Trust for Public Land has built 16 successful community parks throughout the city, including four under the recent partnership with the DOE. For more information, visit www.tpl.org/nyc