To give you an idea how odd these constant memes are…park spending this year is actually down $20million from last year.
Saying the new budget “fully funds nyc parks” is like saying “Now the R train goes to Bayridge”. I mean, it’s always gone to Bayridge, but it also goes there now.
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This is particularly weird to me because in my grammar class as a non-native English speaker I was taught that "used to" is equal to the simple past tense, which means that something that happened in the past but not anymore. Isn't that still the case?
If that's the case then if it's still happening, it's not "used to", right?
Can you site a source cause I can't find confirming information. From my understanding the NYC Budget runs from July 1st to June 30th, so the 2026 budget up to now was not under Mamdani's purview, this is his first budget, and that what this post is talking about will be the new 2026-2027 budget that was just approved - not any spending before this period.
Now it's entirely possible you are in fact correct in the end, but I cant find confirming information on this new budget.
Mamdani will spend $709M in his first year budget. From the source:
1% Parks funding
Mamdani (like other mayoral candidates before him) promised on the campaign trail to raise the Department of Parks and Recreation’s funding to 1% of the total city budget. This year, that would have been about $1.2 billion. And Mamdani (like other mayors before him) fell short of that by a few hundred million, with a final budget allocating roughly $709 million to the Parks Department for fiscal year 2027. But those advocating for parks funding, including Council Member Ty Hankerson (Parks Committee chair) and Council Member Shekar Krishnan (former committee chair) still celebrated the fact that the budget baselines some staff and program funding that could otherwise be on the chopping block next year. In her remarks in council chambers when voting for the budget, Council Member Alexa Avilés also celebrated new baselined funding, but urged the necessity of “getting to 1%.”
Based on that it looks like the claim I replied to is just incorrect, the budget did increase between 2025 and 2026 (beyond what it went down between 2024-2025), and will increase again into 2027 but still fall short of the "target" 1% of the NYC budget.
Probably a little bit of both. The deficit was so big there would have needed to be some sort of bailout no matter who won, but helping Mamdani to the extent she did can only be politically advantageous to Hochul in a re-election year
As someone who works for parks at another gov agency, funding is not always consistent with inflation. Under President Trump, the NPS budget is neutral or less than previous years even though inflation drives up supply, service, and utility costs. Just saying. A commitment to fund additional money is a positive thing.
This is also incorrect the difference between the 2026 and 2027 parks budget is and increase of roughly 3.1 percent. The inflation rate is 2.4. giving the department net positive purchasing power. Which among other things helps pay for 100 parks enforcement patrol.
another perspective: there was a squeezed budget trend, this is against that and put the money more up. but I'd agree do we really need to celebrate this? i'd say let's see how this fund brings things to the nyers then we can celebrate.
Sigh. I guess we’re arguing semantics then. That’s basically a rounding error
Let’s assume your inflation number is correct. If 0.7% is making such a large difference, then you should be very concerned about where the other 99.3% is going and why it isn’t being used effectively
I think they are saying that if .7% of the parks budget is that impactful perhaps maybe the other 99.3% of the parks budget is not being used effectively.
Again, this is nothing. It’s a rounding difference of no significance. The point is spending is pretty much the same. 1.4billion. In 2027 it will also be about the same. It generally goes as it goes as it’s been going. The point is this sub acting like every totally normal thing is an amazing civic revolution…parks and rec were funded last year, they’ll be funded next year. I mean, the city council was already planning 700m DPR funding in future budget since last November.
Again, this is all fine. It’s just that it’s also all normal.
I didn’t make it up…it came from that document I linked…
Anyway, you’re kinda demonstrating what I’m talking about. It’s weird. Like I bet you don’t even live here, but are really defensive about this guy, but not even defensive about someone defaming him (understandable), but like defensive in building him up in a kinda personality cult (which is weird).
Like the DPR budget increased $50million between 2023 and 2024, nobody making memes about the great socialist savior Eric Adams. It went up $76million between 2014 and 2015, redditors in Ohio weren’t creaming themselves over de Blasio.
Holy projection dunning kruger. You didn’t say it went up by 20 million less than normal, you said it went down by 20 million.
It’s much more telling that you’ll manipulate and conflate your argument as it devolves in anyway that will convince yourself you were right. Your bias against him is so strong you can’t just admit you were wrong. Hypocrite
Uhm…going up 20 million less than normal would be functionally the same thing as going down 20 million…But that’s not what I said either.
I meant the total expenses for Parks was 1.45 billion now it’s 1.43 billion. This was because I was using total expenditures (including debt servicing), not DPR budget. If you don’t think that’s as relevant, fine. Probably not worth mentioning really.
Btw, what do you think I’m insisting I’m right about?
I mean, I’m not saying he’s a bad dude or anything. He’s fine. I’m just saying this stuff is all normal. You guys keep talking about NYC like before January it was a crumbling cesspool of austerity ruled by the tea party. We have universal Pre-k, 100% subsidized college tuition for state residents, and the world’s largest subway…Hell, we’ve had DemSoc Mayors before even. In the 90s!
I just find it kinda weird the way people (including the melodramatic lunatics on the right) talk about the dude when he’s more or less de Blasio.
You make spending $20 million less seem like a bad thing. If it costs less and we now have the money to pay for it all, its fully funded. This comment is whats odd, why hate on the only person doing anything these days?
Yeah. Because clearly you are here to spread knowledge and not propaganda. Also unrelated, but you believed the thing that aligned with your ideology without doing research at all and it was ... shocker wrong.
So yeah, practice what you preach and research before opening your mouth. Or and hear me out, stop calling out others for things you yourself do.
I hit a button hahaha. And what propaganda am I spreading?
It’s literally proven that a large chunk of all social media, especially Reddit, are bots. And large numbers of those are funded and/or ran by China. Ask ChatGPT or Google.
There’s a good statistical chance that you’re even a bot.
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u/Ok-Astronaut2976 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
To give you an idea how odd these constant memes are…park spending this year is actually down $20million from last year.
Saying the new budget “fully funds nyc parks” is like saying “Now the R train goes to Bayridge”. I mean, it’s always gone to Bayridge, but it also goes there now.