Tricia Shimamura, the Parks Department’s Manhattan borough commissioner since March 2024, will now be in charge of 30,000 acres of parkland across the city’s five boroughs.
The outreach by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team has demonstrated how the mayor is taking care to not inflame tensions on either side of the Israel-Gaza war.
The protests outside a Queens synagogue on Jan. 8 featured insults and slurs from the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups that gathered at night, but most attention focused on chants in support of Hamas.
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