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Borough commissioner: Sixth Avenue pocket parks sometimes closed to deter drug use; Jefferson Market options still under review
Summary
Borough parks commissioner Tricia Shimamura told Community Board 2 small Sixth Avenue parks have been closed 'infrequently' to prevent predictable drug use and said Jefferson Market Park and Elizabeth Street Garden transitions are under review with potential GreenThumb or license agreement options; final plans expected in spring.
MANHATTAN — Borough Commissioner Tricia Shimamura told Manhattan Community Board 2 on Wednesday that the Parks Department has temporarily and selectively closed several small pocket parks on Sixth Avenue to prevent their regular use for drug activity and that longer‑term solutions are being explored for Jefferson Market Park and Elizabeth Street Garden.
“Some places being a regular place where people are regularly using, one of the very few tools that we have available to us is this idea of kind of closing them a little infrequently so that people can't reuse it as a…
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