Land – Open Space – Initiative 1 – Open Schoolyards across the city as public playgrounds –
DPR (Department of Park and Recreation)/ DOE (Department of Education)
The city has started opening schoolyards as playgrounds since July 2007, when 69 playgrounds were opened. The first of the playgrounds that needed improvement opened up in May 2008.
The milestone is to “open all Category 1 sites not requiring capital improvements.” They’ve absolutely done this, and they’ve even started opening the ones that were improved.

[http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2007b%2Fpr223-07.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20291]

Land – Open Space – Initiative 2 – Increase options for competitive athletes –
DPR (Department of Park and Recreation)
The DPR has been renovating and opening a few recreation centers in the city. The J.J. Walker Park and Tony Depaulito Recreation Center started currently undergoing renovation in June 2008. A new soccer field has also been completed and opened this July in Bloomingdale Park. In August, the West Bronx Recreation Center Ballfield also opened up. Renovation started on Van Cortlandt Park’s Parade Ground in October.
The milestone for the end of 2009 is to open fields up for community use on 43 fields. The number of parks opened is a pretty good handful, and there’re more that opened up that aren’t listed here. Check out the DPR’s pressroom linked before for more.

[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20412]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20482]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20562]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20682]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php]

Land – Open Space – Initiative 3 – Complete underdeveloped destination parks –
DPR (Department of Park and Recreation)
Tompkinsville Park and the Seaside Nature Park reopened in Staten Island. The Floating Pool in Baretto Park opened up earlier this year in June.
The DPR is aiming to complete community outreach and designs for all regional parks by the end of 2009. They also aim to fulfill the potential of at least one major undeveloped park site in every borough. The DPR is doing a pretty good job so far, again there are more renovations and openings posted in the DPR’s website press room.
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20783]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20472]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20432]

Land – Open Space – Initiative 4 – Provide more multi-purpose fields –
DPR (Department of Park and Recreation)
Manida Park in Hunt’s point has been renovated with more multipurpose fields. The new soccer field in Bloomingdale Park also shows off new turf, replacing the previous asphalt fields. St. Michael’s Park also has a new turf-field.
The milestone for the end of 2009 is to complete development of all proposed multi-purpose fields. It’s not certain which are all the proposed multi-purpose fields, but the DPR is constantly starting renovation on parks, or opening newly renovated parks, which is excellent.

[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20602]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/press_releases/press_releases.php?id=20482]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/media_advisories/media_advisories.php?id=20728]

Land – Open Space – Initiative 5 – Install new lighting –
DPR (Department of Park and Recreation)
According to the DPR, 36 sites could do with field lighting. One of the places with newly installed lights is Kaiser Park, but otherwise, in most of the press releases, it is left unsaid whether field lights were installed or not.
The goal for the end of 2009 is to install lights on all proposed areas.

[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/planyc/fieldlighting.html]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/media_advisories/media_advisories.php?id=20132]

Land – Open Space – Initiative 6 – Create or enhance a public plaza in every community –
DOT (Department of Transportation)
The DOT started a NYC Plaza Program to help identify new potential plazas. In 2006, plans began for a plaza in Downtown Brooklyn. The Grand Army Plaza also started undergoing construction in October 2007.
The milestone for the end of 2009 is to continue development of identified plaza initiatives, and to identify potential new plazas. With the new NYC Plaza Program, this initiative is progressing excellently.

[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/sidewalks/publicplaza.shtml]
[http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2006/pr06_17.shtml]
[http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2007/pr07_90.shtml]

Land – Open Space – Initiative 7 – Green the cityscape. –
DPR (Department of Park and Recreation)
At the end of October 2008, 111,111 trees were planted. In November, New Yorkers planted 15,000 more trees. The city is also aiming to have 240 more Greenstreets by the end of 2009.
The city was only aiming to plant 15,000 trees a year for a milestone. The city has surpassed its milestone for this year. How awesome is that? On the other hand, it’s not clear which Greenstreets were newly added, since the DPR website hasn’t really updated its Greenstreets statistics since 2001.

[http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2008b%2Fpr426-08.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1]
[http://www.milliontreesnyc.org/html/newsroom/pr_dig_in_110808.shtml]
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/trees_greenstreets.html]