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    Dedicated Children's Areas (DCAs)

    Metadata Updated: April 12, 2026

    This dataset represents Dedicated Children's Areas in NYC Parks, previously known as Children’s Play Areas (CPAs). Each DCA is a designated space featuring play equipment specifically designed for children (i.e. play structures and spray showers) and is mapped as a geometric shape within a park property. While commonly known as playgrounds, the term "playground" is avoided because some properties or subproperties labeled as "playgrounds" may include features like adult fitness equipment or handball and basketball courts and may not contain play equipment for children.

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    Note: The schema and methodology of the dataset was updated in 2024, replacing the previous version from 2019.

    Play equipment is tracked via the Parks Inspection Program and the Capital Tracker. Parks that are currently rated by the Parks Inspection Program and contain play equipment are considered active Dedicated Children's Areas. Please see the All Sites (Mapped) dataset on Open Data for more detail.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 12, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NYC JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 12, 2026
    Publisher data.cityofnewyork.us
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/j55h-3upk
    Data First Published 2026-04-07
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-07
    Category Recreation
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofnewyork.us/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 4b63c790-3f9d-44c4-87d7-08b2b30ced73
    Harvest Source Id 1696593e-c691-4f61-a696-5dcb9e4c9b4c
    Harvest Source Title NYC JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/j55h-3upk
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 3e986c12c472d3e714a450aea82b6f3dfa96d3e0ae9ce918354f643efe3fbad7
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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