Photos by Stacie Joy
The Tompkins Square Park dog run has received a $400,000 investment thanks to the New York State Assembly.
The Assembly-directed funding will go to upgrade and resurface the large dog run.
On Tuesday, Manhattan Borough Commissioner for Parks Tricia Shimamura, Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade organizer Joseph Borduin, Assembly Member Harvey Epstein, and the city's first honorary Dog Mayor Sally Long Dog, were in the park to make the announcement...
Said Shimamura: "This funding will enable our agency to continue transforming and enhancing Tompkins Square Park, providing East Village residents — both humans and dogs — with a state-of-the-art dog run."
No word just yet when the upgrades might commence.
9 comments:
Gee, that sounds like an awful lot of money.
$400k?! How on earth could it cost $400k to resurface the dog park? I got there with my dog regularly and I am still offended by this.
That’s a laughable amount for a dog run. Adopt a cat people.
Vote for one of these dogs for president in 2028--on the Bow Wow ticket. Woof woof!
That large dog run has been in desperate need of an overhaul for a long time now. It's basically just a huge dusty pit and could easily do with some upgrades. Good on Harvey for directing something that benefits the neighborhood's public parks and the (increasing number of) dog owners in the neighborhood
it is a lot of money - that dog run smells really bad - I'm not surprised it would take that much cash to clean it up!
Has a decision been made to make sure portions of Tompkins Square are always closed? The field house renovation, which closed that entire area even though there was no work being done outside the field house, was scheduled to be finished when? There have been very few workers on site for the duration of that job so far. They seem to be addressing the big trench that has more of the park closed after digging the hole, putting up fencing and then letting it sit for a while (marinate?). And the kid pool will be replaced and that should take as long as imaginable if not more.
I'm all for getting the work done, and the two athletic areas were finished efficiently, but wouldn't it be best to finish the field house before closing whatever to renovate the dog run?
I have a very bad feeling that when this dog run is closed for renovations dog owners will move to take over a nearby children's park. For those already contemplating this idea, think again, we parents of human children won't let you in.
Oh wow. He looks so much taller in his campaign posters.
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