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Bushwick Votes To Upgrade A Dog Park and Extend Some Curbs

Participatory budgeting is back and the results are in for how locals want to dole out $1 million in city funds. Yes dog park, no workout equipment

Maria Hernandez dog park

Bushwick Votes To Upgrade A Dog Park and Extend Some Curbs

Participatory budgeting is back and the results are in for how locals want to dole out $1 million in city funds. Yes dog park, no workout equipment

Bushwick Votes To Upgrade A Dog Park and Extend Some Curbs
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Supporters say that the city’s fledgling participatory budgeting program is a way to open up the often murky machinations of how city contracts are handed out by giving New Yorkers the chance to vote themselves on what they want to get funded. And what the people in Bushwick want is to upgrade the dog run at Maria Hernandez Park. 

Last night, local councilmember Jennifer Gutiérrez announced the winners of the somewhat novel budgeting process, which has been going on in starts and stops since 2011. Antonio Reynoso, the former…

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