Photos by Steven
One of the new amenities has arrived at the multipurpose courts in Tompkins Square Park — your 1939 World's Fair-style benches...
Work started on this space along Avenue A and 10th Street on Oct. 16, first with ripping up the asphalt that hasn't been repaired since the mid-1990s. (And then the arrival of new asphalt.)
Still to come: the outline for a kickball court, a high-low fountain that kids and adults can use simultaneously, and three new basketball backstops at the eastern end.
Posted signs say that the $1.4 million project will be completed by Dec. 1.
Previously on EV Grieve:
5 comments:
Those are NOT 1939 World's Fair-style benches. Those are the standard NYC Dept of Parks benches which you can find in many places across NYC.
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Those ARE the 1939 WF benches !
Gosh, I just took a look at East River Park from google earth, they've carved out the band shell and killed every living thing down there.
Yeah it's a total bummer. Last couple years had some awesome "non-permitted" shows/djs/events. Looking through pics of it earlier this week.
Same benches as the rest of the park just not painted green!
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