Pacific Park Conservancy, thanks to "Clean" and "Safety" Ambassadors, makes partial improvements but work needed on entrance signage and worn lawn

Photo: March 27

As I reported (link), the Pacific Park Conservancy, which oversees the 2.7 acres of open space on the southeast block of the project, was said--as of the March 25, 2025 meeting of the advisory Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation (AY CDC)--to have made some improvements.

To improve oversight and maintenance, the Conservancy has hired Streetplus, a Brooklyn-based company that works at Union Square Park, Madison Square Park, and other locations.

That was according to Anna Pycior of Empire State Development (ESD), the state authority that oversees/shepherds the project.

Photo: April 25

Some change

From what I can observe, Streetplus, with blue-suited workers in uniforms indicating Pacific Park Conservancy and "Clean Ambassador" (see photo at left) and Safety Ambassador," has made some improvements. 

For example, as shown above right, in March one of the entrance pillars to "Pacific Park" was marred by a glued-on poster.

Less than a month later--and it could've happened faster--that pillar had been cleaned.

Still waiting

Still, the metal plaque affixed to the pillar still contains a stated phone number, 347-292-6479, which doesn't work

Photo: April 23

At a public meeting last November, Jen Kuang, the Conservancy's Treasurer and representative of developer Greenland USA--which took over as the project's master developer starting in 2014--suggested that new signs, with a new phone number, 646-930-4852, were on their way.

"We already have the contractor to fabricate the new phone number to attach on the entrance signage," she said. (That new phone number is just a voicemail, but it does work.) 

It still hasn't been attached.

So if people walking by want to contact the Conservancy, well, that doesn't help.

About the dog run

Note: I'll separate address the issue of the dog run, noise from which has plagued some residents of the West Tower of 595 Dean Street. Meanwhile, dog owners are upset at the Conservancy's decision to limit dog run hours. (My take: at minimum, they need to add sound barriers.)

Workers cleaning trash bins. Photo: April 14

Landscaping issues

The Conservancy also has hired Dubner Landscaping and Construction to oversee landscaping. It works on the East Midtown Greenway, Four Freedoms Park, and Hudson Yards.

There's definitely work to be done. As can been seen from the photos below, significant parts of the main lawn, between the 595 Dean towers, have been reduced to dirt.

Photo: April 25

I'm not sure of the cause, but the patches do not reflect any particular pedestrian path. Given the warning to keep dogs off the grass, it's a reasonable bet that dogs, some energized by visiting the nearby dog run or perhaps bypassing it, have dug in. I've seen some off-leash dogs at that lawn.

Photo: April 25

Photo: April 25