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  2. New York City Department of Parks and Recreation - Wikipedia

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    "Explorer" programs are available for activities such as canoeing in the city's flagship parks in all five boroughs. NYC Urban Park Rangers are easily identified by their uniforms. [17] Although NYC Park Rangers possess peace officer status, their primary mission is environmental education, protection of park resources, and visitor safety.

  3. Martin Maher (parks commissioner) - Wikipedia

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    Maher began his career in the Parks department as an Urban Park Ranger. [7] Additionally, Maher worked in a spectrum of different positions with-in the department from manager at Coney Island, to inspector at Shea Stadium, to Yankee Stadium, to the 79th Street Boat Basin, and Randall's Island.

  4. Adrian Benepe - Wikipedia

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    Parks Commissioner of New York City; In office February 4, 2002 – August 29, 2012 ... Benepe held numerous positions with the Urban Park Rangers in the New York ...

  5. United States Park Police - Wikipedia

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    The United States Park Police (USPP) is the oldest uniformed federal law enforcement agency in the United States. It functions as a full-service law enforcement agency with responsibilities and jurisdiction in those National Park Service areas primarily located in the Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and New York City areas and certain other government lands.

  6. List of parks in New York City - Wikipedia

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    A map showing major greenspaces in New York City: 1) Central Park, 2) Van Cortlandt Park, 3) Bronx Park, 4) Pelham Bay Park, 5) Flushing Meadows Park, 6) Forest Park, 7) Prospect Park, 8) Floyd Bennett Field, 9) Jamaica Bay, A) Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden, B) Fort Wadsworth, C) Miller Field, D) Great Kills Park Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States.

  7. Volunteer forest ranger, 18, dies responding to New York ...

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    An 18-year-old New York State Forest Ranger volunteer and state employee died Saturday while responding to a wildfire near the New York-New Jersey border that sent smoke drifting across New York ...

  8. Gordon Davis - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the reform administration of New York Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1967, Davis was a special assistant to Lindsay and secretary of the Mayor's Cabinet. In 1973 Lindsay appointed Davis to be a commissioner of the seven-member New York City Planning Commission (during his city planning service Davis was affiliated with the law firm of Poletti Friedan Praskher Feldman). [1]

  9. Robert Moses - Wikipedia

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    Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century.