During Community Board 3's Parks, Recreation, Waterfront & Resiliency Committee meeting last Thursday evening (Oct. 15), Steve Simon, chief of staff for the Manhattan borough office of the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, said funding is available for several pathway projects.
Simon said money secured through Councilmember Harvey Epstein will support repairs to the park's paths, with work likely beginning on the west side.
He also confirmed that funding is already in the budget to redo the Ninth Street transverse, the east-west pathway through the park.
The project had been planned several years ago but was postponed while the Parks Department prioritized construction of the new field house, completed in April 2025.
Simon also mentioned plans to install synthetic turf in the park's large dog run.
No exact timeline was provided for the pathway improvements or the dog run project.
A slide provided during the meeting shows the paths "completed by 2028"... and the dog run next year.
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thank you Harvey - something is better than nothing....
Not entirely irrelevant: I once saw a fistfight break out at a New York Herpetological Society meeting over the use of astroturf as a substrate in reptile tanks. Waste just collects and festers instead of being absorbed, and people have strong feelings about that.
Seems like something similar might happen in a synthetically turfed dog run. (Not the fistfight part.)
At least we have that going for us
Ugh, synthetic turf is PLASTIC and as it wears down, creates microplastics. Is there a better material?
Synthetic turf in the dog run?!?! Is there some law requiring at least one incredibly stupid decision in every NYC renovation project?
Plastic grass aside... WoW! WoW! The pathway potholes are being fixed. I've been on this issue since I caught an elderly woman from faceplanting at the Ave A 9th Street entrance. But what bothers me is how the Parks Dept. deals with construction. If the money was approved years ago why was it held up?
This is a very welcome project, except maybe the large-dog-run astroturf, which seems like it will get very smelly very fast. But I've never tried to maintain astroturf, so perhaps I'm wrong about that.
Can somebody write ‘a day in the grieve’ already?
I also oppose plastic grasses as those microplastics, I’m almost certain, contributed to my dog’s cancer diagnosis. The sun heats up the plastics, and the dogs peacefully resting there right on top, breathe in those toxins and they cause cancer, pretty quickly in senior dogs, so keep your babies moving. Don’t allow them to sunbathe on that plastic crap. It’s just really bad for them. Someone needs to research this move. There is a better solution, perhaps a natural vegetation that is easily maintained?
I thought there was a big movement to stop the use of astroturfing in parks?
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