Slope Armory on Track to Open in September
The long-awaited opening of an athletic center at the Park Slope Armory is set to happen in September, according to Sean Andrews, executive director of the Prospect Park Y. The new, $16 million center that the Y is running was supposed to open early this year, but contractors are still putting the finishing touches on…
The long-awaited opening of an athletic center at the Park Slope Armory is set to happen in September, according to Sean Andrews, executive director of the Prospect Park Y. The new, $16 million center that the Y is running was supposed to open early this year, but contractors are still putting the finishing touches on construction. While the centerpiece of the armory’s renovation is the overhauled drill floor (above), which will be used primarily for track-and-field purposes, Andrews says the Y wants the facility to be a destination for community recreation. To that end, the armory will be outfitted with what Andrews calls 10 “very large” multi-purpose rooms and the Y will offer programs like mom-and-baby yoga at the center. Andrews says that basic membership will cost $40 a month for adults and, as at other Y’s, financial aid will be available. Open houses and tours of the center are supposed to begin soon.
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a track will be mostly used by schools for much needed space for indoor track practice and meets. kids in prospect park schools can benifit from it just as much as kids from bed stuy. and frankly all will use it. 6 years back when i went to midwood hs we had to shlep all the way to pratt for precious indoor track time. many other schools did likewise. ie. – south shore, boys and girls, erasmus (so stop complaining)
Park Slope Armory gets a multimillion athletic retro fit, complete with mom and baby yoga classes.
The Bed Stuy/Crown Heights Armory gets more homeless men
You know why that is: wealth, class, education, politics, activism, ra… I’m not going to go there. It’s not a coincidence, it never is.
> I trust you are settling in nicely into your new digs.
I am indeed, thanks slopefarm!
> DitmasSnark, welcome to the neighborhood!
Thanks, sixyearsandcounting. I’m digging the neighborhood and loving the new place. I won’t be at Sycamore this evening, but have a tipple for me.
DitmasSnark, welcome to the neighborhood! Maybe I’ll see you at Sycamore this evening.
People have said that Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights may need a facility such as this more than Park Slope does.
After checking the GMAP, it appears this Armory is kind of Sunset Park (and not as far as Bay Ridge). It is south of Greenwood Cemetery — 47th St.
tybur6 wrote in HOTD at – 1:25 PM, something like:
You’re as much in the . . . as 36th Street is “South Park Slope.”
I’ve got one word for Bloomie: Honduras.
Great — let’s have gym facilities and small shelters at all the armories throughout the five boroughs, so all neighborhoods can share equally.
I would guess Bloomberg is trying to sweep all the homeless men out of sight by making them all use the Crown Heights location — because he’s up for reelection.
bxgrl – Yes, my transition is complete. I slipped out of the Slope last week.
I would give Snark of the Day to Snark but it would be like carryig coals to Newscastle :-). Snarky- is that your new handle?