Ingersoll Center Finally Open (Sorta)

It's taken seven years, but the Ingersoll Community Center is finally open. Well, not really open yet in terms of the public being able to use the 18,000-square-foot facility, but it was used to host the Ingersoll Tenants Association meeting a couple of weeks ago (just in time, too: Tenants Association head Ed Brown told The Local in August that, “If it hasn’t opened by late September, we’re going to have to hold a major protest”) and, we hear, a ribbon cutting ceremony is not far away. In the meantime, we've noticed chairs, tables and exercise bikes being set up. Bureaucracy at its best!
Seven Years and Counting for Ingersoll Center [Brownstoner] GMAP
Ingersoll Community Center to Open as Soon as July [Brownstoner]

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Better late than never.

Posted by: East New York at October 13, 2009 11:22 AM

Although there was a bureaucracy involved and there were inefficiencies, most of the delay in opening this community center was not bureaucratic in nature.

Posted by: g man at October 13, 2009 12:32 PM

I can see this facility from my window. The overhead bright lights on the basketball court have been on full blast all night, every night for months (almost a year). I have called Dept of Housing, Tish James, 311, etc, to complain but nothing happens and the lights keep burning for nothing.

Given all the waste and graft going into this money pit - why do the managers insist on running dozens of high power interior lights for no one?

Posted by: Knickerbocker at October 13, 2009 12:49 PM

the lighting in a crime deterrant probably? there;s no other reason for it. tho maybe they just want to annoy you lol

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at October 13, 2009 4:45 PM