During a virtual meeting last Thursday evening, NYC Parks kicked off the process for a reconstruction project involving the Tompkins Square Park mini-pool and basketball courts.
Parks officials still want to hear from you, specifically:
• What matters most to you in renovating the park?
• What would you like to be able to do in the park that you can't do now?
• What are the three most important improvements you want to see in the park?
While these are more broad-ranging questions about the overall park, this is what's on the table for the 10th Street and Avenue B corner: "This project will demolish the existing above-ground mini pool and construct a new, expanded in-ground mini pool and reconstruct the basketball courts and adult fitness area."
The mini pool would remain open only to kids and their guardians. (More background here about the funding.)
And the timeline is as follows, per the Parks website:
• DesignThe average time for design is 9-14 months. The design timeline for this specific contract will be established once the project scope is determined.• ProcurementThe average time for procurement is 9-12 months. The procurement timeline for this specific contract will be established at the conclusion of the design phase.• ConstructionThe average time for construction is 12-18 months. The construction timeline for this specific contract will be established at the conclusion of the procurement phase.
In other words, no time soon.
Submit your responses here.
15 comments:
I want a shark pool.
Does anyone actually use the pool?
Too many sharks
I wish the park were cleaner .. and they would hose down dog parks
Up to date drink fountains
Yes! It was over capacity after school/camp in many hot days and families had to wait to get in.
They need to put fencing and nice walkways in the entire park. The basketball area is fine as is. Park looks ghetto.
Redo pathways and maintain fences and benches. MAINTENANCE PU-LEEZE.
Please, please please DO NOT REMOVE monkey bars and jungle gyms!! And, they DON'T need a modern update. They are great the way they are.
Repaving, new sod, fences, trash management. Not the type of thing you can cut a ribbon for but super valuable nonetheless
That’s what they said. And with bottle filler
protect existing trees and grow more trees because it is a park after all
Better overall maintenance, water fountains, monkey bar area rubber surface, bathrooms ... 44 years in the EV!
Stop chopping down the trees; they get replaced with saplings that will take over 100 years to regrow!
Tables to eat at. Without people at the other tables doing drugs.
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