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;…
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.
FDR football team has nothing to fear, but field itself [Daily News]
Where is this park>?
2 million dollars for a restroom. Boy do they know how to bilk the city. Overpriced Brooklyn brownstones aren’t that much money.
Suckers.
4:41 – They are not “Orthodox” Jews, they are Hasidic Jews.
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!
This is one of the two park restrooms in which a child was assaulted yesterday, according to last night’s television news reports.
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.
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?
This year it is filled with Orthodox Jews.
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.