Saturday, March 19, 2011

Table tennis now a permanent part of Tompkins Square Park

Earlier today, the city installed a new permanent ping-pong table in Tompkins Square Park, as DNAinfo has been reporting...



The table is dedicated to longtime Tompkins Square Park manager Harry Greenberg, who retired last fall....


...and if you want to play...



All photos by EV Grieve Ping-Pong Sideline Photographer Bobby Williams.
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 19, 2011 at 11:46 PM

    I wonder if the Flea Market Cafe is paying the city for the advertising space.

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  2. JulioMarch 20, 2011 at 5:49 AM

    The table looks like it's in an open area where skateboarders can allie & rail slide on the table.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 20, 2011 at 8:53 AM

    First reaction: public ping-pong table, that is so cool. Second reaction: some asshole will find a way to fuck it all up somehow. You simply can't have anything nice around here.

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  4. Roger_PawMarch 20, 2011 at 8:57 AM

    The end is nigh.

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  5. KurtMarch 20, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    @Julio, if someone can ollie up to that table and do a rail slide, god bless 'em. That would be awesome.

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  6. esquared™March 20, 2011 at 10:50 AM

    how soon before the fratdouches turn that into a beer pong table?

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  7. AnonymousMarch 20, 2011 at 12:25 PM

    Table tennis is going to attract the fratboy element to the neighborhood.

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  8. KurtMarch 20, 2011 at 2:44 PM

    I think we should call this the "Hot Chicks Table"

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  9. JillMarch 21, 2011 at 8:41 PM

    I was at the CB meeting where this was proposed, asking for an endorsement to the Parks Dept, and they shot it down as a private interest thing in a public space that they couldn't publicly support.

    I was so disappointed at that decision, and now happy to see that they have made it come true and didn't need the community board to do it.

    As I remember, it is designed to withstand all kinds of horrors, idiot-proof, made out of some special space age concrete. It's a really great idea and a definite plus for the park.

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