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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NOW we agree slopefarm. In another life I was a doctoral candidate in Political Science (who spent years busily NOT writing his dissertation). I’m still very sensitive to the proper use of political labels. IMO “batsh*t crazy” is the most appropriate term to apply to P’s political views 🙂
jwald,
Don’t get me started on teh pool. Prospect Park Y, who will be running the armory facility, broke ground several years ago on a new and much larger pool than the dinky little basement pool they have now. Go into the CVS parking lot and look next door at teh site. It’s coming along swimmingly — Not.
DS — there, that’s the word I was looking for. I tried to get all theoretical, but I think you’ve nailed it. I trust you are settling in nicely into your new digs.
There is a pool a couple blocks away at the Park Slope YMCA on 9th Street.
Bob,
See above. I recanted. I simply misremembered the meaning of the term from my college days. It’s getting too long ago, now.
It’s comforting to see that in a fast changing world, Polemicist remains batsh*t crazy as always.
An Olympic-sized pool would have been nice…
I disagree slopefarm. I suspect that P. is much closer to the Carlists than to any sort of fascists or corporatists (who AFAIK were historically very much in favor of government regulation of private property uses, along with all other phases of society).
bx,
It’s a good term but, alas, I’ve misused it. I was thinking of Italian proto-fascist corporatism, but I even got that wrong as I wiki’d the term. There have been many forms of corporatism over the centuries, but wrong to apply the term to pole. Cheers.
I think the whole danger of militias peaked in the ’90s.