On Saturday morning, Parks officials and local City Councilmember Harvey Epstein are hosting an in-person meeting to discuss the project. (The city took recommendations in January and February.)
The meeting is set for 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Attendees can gather on the Ninth Street walkway near the basketball courts over closer to Avenue B.
Here's an aerial view of the area that will eventually be under construction along 10th Street and Avenue B...
The fitness area serves a large community of users, including people of every gender, age, income, race and fitness level, who meet year-round, all-weather, day and night. The equipment is well-known among calisthenics practitioners, and many travel to train there.
As for the pool... in August 2024, Gov. Hochul announced nearly $150 million in capital grants through the New York Statewide Investment in More Swimming (NY SWIMS) initiative.
As part of that, Tompkins Square Park was awarded $6.1 million for a new in-ground pool, which will double the capacity of the current above-ground trailer park model... as seen last week, waiting for the leaf blower ...
Other areas of the park have undergone renovations... last April, the field house and restrooms reopened after more than 18 months of rehab work.
In 2023, reconstruction of the multipurpose courts took place.
8 comments:
I think if there going to spend all this money on a new pool I hope it's not just for kids but for all ages other wise just leave it alone and put new benches and repave the walkway all ready me being disabled it be nice to enter the park on level grounds
They removed the sprinkler system from behind the bathrooms, so I hope we can get some kind of water feature (for adults as well as kids) to cool off in summer.
Maybe invest into nice benches around the park first.
i like the shade trees there and that its not on ground level with the rats..
The roadway running fron one side of 9th Street to the other is in desperate need of repaving. Someone can easy get hurt and sue sue, sue! It should be included in the budget
How long is this proposed project actually going to take? And how does that compare to the previous renovations? I've lived in the East Village for six years, and am I the only one who remembers the ugly scaffolding and fencing that surrounded parts of this park for YEARS? The field house renovation alone was supposed to take 18 months and ended up running closer to two years, with the restrooms shuttered and porta-potties out for even longer than that.
The park is finally in a pleasant state for once. If this new pool project is going to drag on past my next lease and means another multi-year stretch of the park being torn up and in disrepair, I'd honestly rather move to a different part of town. Residents deserve a realistic timeline upfront, not a projected completion date that quietly slips by a year or more.
Why can't they do basic, quick, relatively inexpensive maintenance on the rest of the park? Repair benches, repave the asphalt...just basic upkeep (that other parks seem to get)
"involving the Tompkins Square Park mini-pool"
AKA the "cement pond". :)
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