It’s the latest step legislators are taking to make city parks more accessible and convenient for visitors.
“Despite being a place where families spend a great deal of their time, the lack of changing stations left parents changing their children’s diapers on park benches and equipment, and on their laps like I did and even on the ground,” Bronx Councilmember Rafael Salamanca Jr., one ofCity law already requires changing stations be installed in bathrooms in new or recently renovated public spaces. Restrooms in public parks were excluded from the provision.
During a hearing to review the bill in March, the parks department’s First Deputy Commissioner Iris Rodriguez-Rosa said the agency supports a bill that would see more diaper-changing tables across the city’s parks.
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