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March 30, 2009

Closing Bell: East River State Park Now Concert Venue

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The McCarren Pool concert series was a popular event for the last few summers. It was thought that the concerts were officially done for good thanks to the venue's new renovations to be turned back into a real pool. Good news though! The concert series is setting up shop at a new location this summer, East River State Park located on North 8th and 9th Streets and Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. Confirmed by the NY Times, the Park is able to hold 6,000 fans and will boast better views. If enough sponsorship money comes through, the coordinators, Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, hope to also put on classical and opera concerts.
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Posted by TCulver at 4:00 PM | Comments (6)
Categories: Closing Bell, Williamsburg

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This is great news.

Glad to see the concerts will continue.

Posted by: 11217 at March 30, 2009 4:05 PM

So... does this mean this park will not be a park this summer?!

Posted by: tybur6 at March 30, 2009 4:11 PM

tybur6, depends. Is Central Park still a park during Summerstage? I'm pretty sure it'll be open for regular park usage when shows aren't going on.

Posted by: bjw2103 at March 30, 2009 5:05 PM

Fantastic - the concerts were a lot of fun this summer.

Posted by: dirty_hipster at March 30, 2009 10:49 PM

just classical and opera? no black dice, sonic youth, cat power, wilco, etc? I find hipsters as annoying as the next guy, but I went to the mccarren park pool shows anyway 'cause I like the music. Are these new classical/opera offerings geared to appeal to the new arrivals living in Toll Brothers behemoths? And I ain't necessarily poo pooing opera, but I do fear a creeping homogenization/whiteification/blandification... Or did that train left the station long, long ago...

Posted by: pfa at March 31, 2009 2:45 PM

bye bye green grass

thats ok though i'd rather have the concerts, they became so popular last summer the sunday partys had a line around the block so long that there was no point in even going anymore

Posted by: 11211 at April 5, 2009 11:23 PM

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