Slope Armory Athletic Center Comes Out to Play
The long-awaited unveiling of the new athletic center in the Park Slope Armory took place yesterday. The facility, which was revamped to the tune of $16 million, will be run by the YMCA, pending city approval. The space has a new track-and-field center (we snapped the above photo of it in December), and it will…
The long-awaited unveiling of the new athletic center in the Park Slope Armory took place yesterday. The facility, which was revamped to the tune of $16 million, will be run by the YMCA, pending city approval. The space has a new track-and-field center (we snapped the above photo of it in December), and it will likely accommodate sports like basketball, volleyball, tennis, gymnastics, and martial arts. Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn reports that the Y intends to keep it open from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. p.m. every day, and the Brooklyn Eagle quotes Marty Markowitz as saying that the transformation of the Park Slope Armory into one of the city’s largest community recreation and education centers is the culmination of a dream I’ve had since before being elected borough president. The section of the armory on 8th Avenue between 14th and 15th streets not given over to the new athletic center will continue to be a dormitory for homeless women.
Ceremonial Opening of Armory [OTBKB] GMAP
City Officials Celebrate $16 Million Reno of Historic Slope Armory [Brooklyn Eagle]
Closing Bell: Park Slope Armory Lookin’ Hot to Trot [Brownstoner]
Last Lap for Park Slope Armory Renovation [Brownstoner]
I think primarily it will be used for local schoolchildren who desperately need this space as public schools are in old buildings and don’t have gyms. Yeah for all those kids!
you go, 3:16. Amazing, you’ll need an EIS to open a goddamn bodega soon if some people have their way. And then people wonder why everything is so expensive.
oh yeah, that report, I have a copy right here.
But you going have to beat me at basketball to get it.
Meet me at the Armory!
Traffic Study
1. impact local business (The little local business that exist will become more profitable from the new traffic)
2. impact narrow side streets which have very heavy traffic use. (scarce parking space will be more scarce)
There you go, there is your traffic study. 30K should cover it.
South Slope jerk,
I was not asking about studies in order to delay this. As a neighbor of this building for over 15 years, I was wondering if anyone had even conceptually thought about how it might 1. impact local business and 2. impact narrow side streets which have very heavy traffic use.
Yippee, they’re going to have a gym there. Hot damn.
Has anyone bothered to think about usage and visitation? NOT. IN. A. BAD. WAY. – just in a way, period. The neighorhood is rapidly transforming and it would be nice of the City – which has spent a bag of money on a public works project in the transforming area – did a homework and speculation on how this project will affect the area.
12:51 – I agree completely, I marched with Jim B. to try and get “Meet Joe Black” out of there.
This is a good project, I’m just interested in some data about how it might affect my neighborhood. (and it will be a far more positive thing than all the crap going up on the south side of 15th).
Winder Terrizen
Marty Markowitz saying this about an excercise center is beyond ironic:
““the transformation of the Park Slope Armory into one of the city’s largest community recreation and education centers is the culmination of a dream I’ve had since before being elected borough president.”
Can we legalize milf stroller races?
As someone who has lived across the street from the Armory for the last 20 years, 15 of them when the place was a neglected shit hole, the news is fantastic. Anyone remember the Summer they tried to use it as film stage? The huge noisy flatbed trailer truck air conditioners running 24 hours a day? The time they tried to repair the roof and then it all peeled off in great big sheets onto the cars parked on 15th?
The scaffolding up for years? The grinding of the mortar joints 6 days a week for an entire year? Thank goodness that’s over. I will put up with more traffic, but than you know 15th Street is not in CB 6, that’s why no welcoming signs on our side of the building.
BRING it 12:15.
“basketball”
I will run you Brownstoner fools.