A spokesperson for the Parks Department would like to assure everyone that snowboarding in the city’s parks is not illegal, the rangers were just being stupid. |Gothamist|

A lawn-mowing robot is being tested at City Hall. While the Parks Department claims that none of their union workers will be replaced with machines, they will reassign them to groundskeeping jobs that a robot can’t do as efficiently, at least not yet. |NYDN|

Agents with NYC’s Parks Department fined a 10-year-old girl named Clementine and her dad for setting up a lemonade stand in Riverside Park without a permit. Instead of just asking the capitalist duo to leave, a $50 ticket was issued that ultimately won’t have to be payed: “A spokesperson for the Parks Department says the agents showed poor judgment and that the ticket will be dismissed.” |CBS|

Fear not lawbreakers, the newly renovated Washington Square Park is safe for now. The Parks Department has reportedly “shot down the proposal from a group of Greenwich Village locals to hire uniformed off-duty policemen to bolster the park’s patrolling.” |Curbed|