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April 18, 2008
Gravesend Park Not So Grave Anymore
Only last year "filled with glass and dog feces," according to a Daily News article, Gravesend Park this week unveiled its $5 million renovation—including $2 million to fix-up the comfort station! The park reconstruction funded by Councilman Simcha Felder includes a new playground with adventure play equipment, a play mountain, swings and a spray shower; cafe tables and benches for senior citizens; and landscaping, according to a Parks Department release. "The park's ballfields were also restored in-house by the borough's maintenance and operations crews. They sifted through 1,800 cubic yards of soil to remove debris, added another 450 yards of topsoil, brought in 60 cubic yards of clay for the infields, and seeded, watered and groomed the fields for their opening this summer." Bloomberg funded the comfort station. We've never been in there, but it must be massive, have been in pretty sorry shape, or super luxe now that it cost two-thirds as much to fix-up as the rest of the park! Starbucks may not be the city's premiere public restroom anymore.
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***crickets***
Please post stories about neighborhoods we care about. I mean "we" in the royal sense.
Posted by: guest at April 18, 2008 3:17 PM
Pet Peeve alert:
This was not funded by Simcha Felder. It's the taxpayers' money.
Posted by: Flatbushwhacker at April 18, 2008 3:28 PM
You can thank the greedy skull caps for stealing the tax payers money to fund this park
Posted by: guest at April 18, 2008 3:31 PM
3:31, I'll assume your Archie Bunker-esque comment was a dismal attempt at trolling.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 18, 2008 3:57 PM
My comment had nothing to do with Felder's ethnicity, and isn't about him personally. I'm just as irked by the trash cans with Bill DeBlasio's name on them, since I'm pretty sure he didn't reach into his own pocket to buy them.
Posted by: Flatbushwhacker at April 18, 2008 4:29 PM
Flatbushwhacker, no need to defend yourself. Assuming your comment was in any way anti-semetic just because you mentioned someone's name is ridiculous. 3:31 is the one with the problem, not you.
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 18, 2008 4:33 PM
This year it is filled with Orthodox Jews.
Posted by: guest at April 18, 2008 4:41 PM
4:41, are you making a point? I see a nice new park with children playing and families spending time together. What difference does their religion make?
Posted by: Biff Champion at April 18, 2008 4:47 PM
Children! Please! Where is this park? I'd like to take my kids to play on that massive pile of polyurethane shaped as a rock.
Posted by: Cobblekrill at April 18, 2008 6:50 PM
This is one of the two park restrooms in which a child was assaulted yesterday, according to last night's television news reports.
Posted by: elizabethJane at April 19, 2008 8:40 AM
This park, which is not very big, cost 5 million dollars. This is not even a park, it's a playground. 2 million just for a comfort station. How long before the chairs are stolen? This money should have been allocated to the public school system!
Posted by: guest at April 19, 2008 10:57 PM
4:41 - They are not "Orthodox" Jews, they are Hasidic Jews.
Posted by: guest at April 21, 2008 12:53 AM
2 million dollars for a restroom. Boy do they know how to bilk the city. Overpriced Brooklyn brownstones aren't that much money.
Suckers.
Posted by: guest at April 21, 2008 9:51 AM
Where is this park>?
Posted by: guest at April 24, 2008 3:29 PM
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