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Synthetic Grass

Posted on September 16, 2024September 26, 2024 by East River Park ACTION

Unhealthy and Unwise and HOT Stop installing artificial turf ball fields in New York. Here’s why: 1) Ouch Athletes suffer more foot and ankle injuries, and female athletes also experience more ACL tears on artificial turf fields. High temperatures on the fields can cause blisters, dehydration, cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. The young are…

The Artificial turf is NEVER greener on ANY side of the fence. *Ask your NY State electeds to support Assembly Member Grace Lee's Bill #A07158 calling for a moratorium on artificial turf.

We Need Real Grass

Posted on June 4, 2024June 16, 2024 by East River Park ACTION

Even the National Football League wants to get rid of synthetic turf. Natural grass sports fields would improve our environment and health as the new East River Park rises. Instead the city is installing unhealthful and climate damaging artificial turf. It is also being installed in other fields and playgrounds in our neighborhood and throughout the city and the…

This wonderful park we are trying to preserve is forever Indigenous land of Lenapehoking. We hope to honor and respect the land of this park by advocating its use as a resilient flood-absorbing sponge working with the river-side ecosystem, rather than in defiance of it. We oppose the ESCR project that continues assault on the land and recognize it adds a layer of injury to the ongoing systemic oppression of the original stewards of this land, the Lenapeyok People.