NYC Parks has completed a $2.8 million reconstruction of Dawson Playground in Longwood, The Bronx. The capital improvement project was funded through the Mayor’s Community Parks Initiative, modernizing the playground with new recreational amenities, accessibility upgrades, landscaping, and infrastructure improvements designed to better serve local families and the surrounding community.
New play equipment for children across two age groups was installed alongside a swing set featuring bucket, strap, and accessible seats. A colorful octagonal spray shower anchors the playground’s central gathering area, which includes new seating and rubber safety surfacing. Additional upgrades include decorative security lighting, improved utility systems, a new perimeter fence with two entrances, expanded benches, and repaved sidewalks.
Dawson Playground, via Google Maps.
Elsewhere on the site, a shared fence with the adjacent Wishing Well Community Garden was lowered to improve connectivity, while a new pedestrian link was created to the nearby schoolyard gate. Adjacent schoolyard basketball courts were resurfaced and outfitted with new polycarbonate backboards, and landscaping improvements included enlarged tree pits, transplanted trees, new plantings, and additional shrubs.
Funding for the reconstruction came through the Community Parks Initiative, which invests in parks located in historically underserved neighborhoods that have not received significant capital improvements in at least two decades.
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