Twelve underserv city neighborhoods are creating recent park space.

Twelve underserv city neighborhoods are creating recent park space, planning park programs, answering community destitutions and ensuring ongoing maintenance, thanks largely to the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest foundation

For five years, beginning in 1987 the foundation issued more than $8 million in grants for park improvements in just discovered York City, money that helped support the revitalization of 5000 woodland acres in the city's exterior boroughs, the opening of the Urban Forest Ecology Center in the Bronx and the restoration of the Harlem [i]n[/i] in Central Park.

In 1992 the fund's board of directors vot to launch a national initiative in urban parks and the nearest year assessed park needs across the political division The fund, also supported work at the Trust for Public Land (TPL) a non-profit land conservation organization, is designed to identify opportunities for park creation in mid-sized cities.

Since 1994 a $15.5-million