Slope Armory Set-Back

The ribbon-cutting at the Park Slope Armory's refurbished athletic facilities held more than a year and a half ago is looking rather premature in hindsight. The Brooklyn Paper says that the Park Slope Armory opening has been delayed again, something to do with both the glacial pace of classroom as well as the inability to get the FDNY to set a date to inspect. “They can’t even give us a ballpark figure,” said Nica Lalli, CB6’s Parks Committee chairwoman. “They can not give us anything that will satisfy our need to know. We asked it 15 ways, but they did not budge and give us a date.” Once the fire department does sigs off, the Department of Homeless Services can hand over control to the YMCA; at that point the Y will have another couple of months of its own work to do, though some of the recreation programs for kids will not have to wait.
At the Armory, Wait ‘Til Next Year [Brooklyn Paper]
Armory to Open in November [Courier Life]
Slope's Armory Rec Center Delayed, Again [Brownstoner]
Photo by Crown Heights North

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The ineptitude here is jaw dropping. It took forever to get done (looks great, BTW), and now sits gathering dust for over a year, and there is STILL no opening date in sight.

We want a rec center in our Armory at Bedford Atlantic. The city dangles the possibility in exchange for letting them do the intake center there. (like those uses go together like ham and eggs) The fate of this one should be a clear indication that there really is no real incentive for the powers that be to do right by communities. If upscale, well connected Park Slope can't get the doors open.........

Posted by: Montrose Morris at November 4, 2009 10:39 AM

Now here is an issue Thompson should have highlighted - truly a disgrace on every level. Millions of dollars of public money investment, sitting unused for NO REASON.

Posted by: fsrg at November 4, 2009 10:40 AM

it's just indicative of people in general this day and age. red tape everywhere and on everything. no one can get anything done because there's so many rules and no ones feelings can get hurt and everyone in the community must have a say. blah blah blah, nothing.gets.done.anymore.

not that i care about this project in particular. a rec center? blah. none of proposed uses for this place tickled my fancy anyway.

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at November 4, 2009 10:53 AM

Disgraceful.
It is hard to accept that our tax burden, which is the highest in the country, results in such an inept and dysfunctional public sector. Bill Thompson was bought and paid for by the municipal unions. He would have been no help at all.

Posted by: Minard Lafever at November 4, 2009 11:50 AM

You don't like the women's homeless shelter, rob?

Posted by: denton at November 4, 2009 1:45 PM

glacial pace of classrooms? Sorry, don't understand, what does that mean?

Posted by: bc at November 4, 2009 2:39 PM

Posted by: Minard Lafever at November 4, 2009 11:50 AM

What about the unions Bloomberg bought and paid for?

Y'know the biggest scam Bloomberg has going is paying private contractors $100/hour for roads and subway repairs when a city worker could do the same work sans general contractor for $50. Bloomberg for all his "he can't be bought" bullshit is running a significantly graft-happy, corrupt city. Not saying Thompson would be any less of a whore but fair is fair. Bloomberg's enriching his construction buddies and bilking the city in the process.

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at November 4, 2009 3:06 PM

quote:
You don't like the women's homeless shelter, rob?

oh. i didnt even know about that part. that's cool. sexist, but cool. so if i become homeless i cant still live in park slope cuz im a man? :(

*rob*

Posted by: Butterfly at November 4, 2009 3:22 PM