The parks may not get 1% of NYC’s $100 billion budget, but if 1% of the city’s 8.4 million people volunteered to work in their local park, those 84,000 people could clean up a lot of trash and weeds.

Mayor Adams understands the importance of parks and is committed to enhanced parks equity.

Our new mayor should let our environmental actions do the talking for the next eight years. It would be a refreshing change.

For a mayor who talks about equity and income inequality, he should remember that parks are one of the few services we already have that provide a measure of equality, access and opportunity for all. They should be treasured rather than trashed.

A functioning park system helps address a wide variety of sustainability and social problems.