NYC Parks employee LeRoy Temple was promoted to assistant commissioner for citywide services this past August. He's also an cancer survivor.
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“You think you know how to clean the bathroom growing up in a household here in New York City—especially with my mother and my grandmother— you get to learn how to clean a public bathroom once you’re maintaining one of the city’s largest pools,” said Temple. “So started out working at Astoria Pool and worked my way into a full time job as a park service worker—that title was broadbanded to city park worker.
The department’s mission is certainly a calling for Temple—it’s hard to imagine anyone staying forty years with the same employer otherwise. After all, the grass is only greener on the other side thanks to “parkies.” Temple points to the job’s impact on young people, witnessing boys he worked with at the Roy Wilkins Recreation Center in Queens now thrive “in the community as men.”
“I have what I call the ‘three F’s’: faith, family and friends. It helped me get through anything. My mantra became ‘everyday above ground is a blessing.’” “Despite constantly trying, we weren’t able to get pregnant so a better option was, okay, let’s be foster parents to see where we are and how we can actually contribute to help other kids,” he said. “For a while it was very fulfilling, you see that you’re effecting change in a child’s life for a while. But it does take a toll on you because you’re dealing with kids and trying to give them a stable household, but then they’re put back in situations that aren’t always the best situation.
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