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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Pole,
Are you saying your post was entirely in jest, or just that it was an illogical leap from your post to thinking Nazi? Unless all your previous posts are in jest, I’ve never known you to have much of a sense of humor. There are a bunch of posters who, if they wrote what you did, I would assume they were kidding. With you I’m not so sure.
In any event, I will walk this back from the Nazi comparison. It sounds more like you want a resurrection of the Quartering Acts. Seriously, the idea of routine postings of U.S. troops as an instrument of domestic social control is pretty antithetical to the values we founded our nation upon (and with the 4th coming up this week, to boot). But I take it all back if you can unequivocaly state that your entire post was in jest.
The athletic facility’s primary users during the day/school year are to be public schools (for P.E. and for team sports — many of the area’s schools, including PS 107 across the street, lack gyms)and youth sports groups. Community access is to be worked in around those users’ schedules. The model for this Armory development was the 168th St/Manhattan Armory.
“Both residents & CB-6 made a lot of effort to get this done – it’s taken years.”
More like decades. I remember this being talked up back in the 1980s.
Yeah, Montrose. Sturmtruppen! Sieg Heil!
I actually was just trying to test how the brownstoner cast of characters is these days, i.e. their reactionary and illogical statements. I am happy to report that it took not even 30 minutes for you to think “Nazi!”
Good work, this place is as nutty as ever.
Yes, I’m pretty sure it was sarcastic.
I thought Poley’s comment was funny!
It was a joke right???
Montrose- and you expect poley to comprehend this? He would love to see Nazi storm troopers running through the streets of Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy.
Polemicist, you came out of the woodwork to make that comment? Have you totally lost your mind? In our “more dangerous neighborhoods”, this garrison would do what? March through the streets like Storm Troopers – the Nazi kind, perhaps rounding up the usual suspects, or anyone who dares to look them in the face? Maybe they could rush out through the portcullis and stop a loud block party, or intervene in traffic disputes. “Civil unrest” is CAUSED by armies interfering with people’s civil rights, and armed bodies of garrisoned soldiers are historically notorious for getting it wrong when out on the streets.
In the past the NYC armory troops were used to break up strikes, or control immigrant groups, and other policing actions that the power elite deemed for the greater good, but were actually anti-immigrant, anti-civil rights, and anti-labor – the kind of thing we hoped to have gotten beyond in our dealings with all of the different peoples, income levels and groups in this city. What does it say for us as a city when we need garrisons of troops in poor neighborhoods? Nothing good. Nothing good at all.
arkady- we are but Park Slope started out with a number of advantages that CH and Bed-Stuy don’t have- political and financial power. We’re working on it but Bloomberg perceives us as a convenient dumping ground (we already have 6x’s the number of social service beds as other neighborhoods).