Trump Funding Cuts Put New Stresses on Public Parks in US Cities (Correct)

In park-poor Queens, New York, residents starving for outdoor recreation were banking on an abandoned rail line to help fill the gap. The long-in-the-works QueensWay was going to transform 3.5 miles of old Long Island Rail Road tracks into a High-Line-like linear park serving the more than a quarter-million New Yorkers who lived within a mile of it.

“Queens is incredibly dense, and it’s hard to move around, so people often have to drive to get to the park,” said Tamar Renaud, New York State director for the Trust for Public Land. “This would create a passageway through, so people ...