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Seen & Heard: Collect Pond Park Is Delayed Again
••• Collect Pond Park is now not expected to open till the end of 2013, says the LMCCC.
••• The Battery Park City Parks Conservancy is closing the Stuyvesant High School community center in December. It’s a shame to see a swimming pool go offline to the public.
••• From Stephen Pile, he of the construction cat: “I did see Duco a couple days ago after a month of nothing. One of the traffic workers told me that she is, unfortunately, pregnant again.” (That’s his photo at right.)
••• I just did a big, fast cross-country drive, and I have an app recommendation: HotelTonight, which gathers very last-minute hotel deals for various cities. (I stayed at a terrific new resort in Vail, the Sebastian, for $139.) When you sign up, use the code ETORKELLS and we both get $25 off—you upon sign-up and me when you book your first room. When I first learned of HotelTonight, I never thought I’d need the app—but it has turned out to be super handy, and I suspect I’ll use it again. (Speaking of which, you really should get the Uber app, too. Use this code and we both win: 5ihlj.)
••• From the LMCCC: “The Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse soon will be getting a new entrance pavilion to help accommodate high visitor volume to the building. The new construction will begin in November 2013 and continue for approximately 18 months, through May 2015. Designed by architects at Gruzen Sampton for easier security screening, the pavilion will be made of glass and steel, with special design elements to accommodate the ventilation-system components on the plaza where it will be erected.” There’s a small rendering, if you click the link.
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Collect Pond Park is now not expected to open…
Fixed.
It was actually going to be the BPCA who was closing the Stuyvesant High School Community Center but it seems the Authority does not have the Authority to close it. The center has to stay open:
“Battery Park City Authority cannot close the Stuyvesant High School center, because the authority has an “ironclad” agreement with the city to keep it open under a deal that let the city open the high school in the first place.
Silver’s office has showed the original agreement and subsequent lawsuit to four lawyers, and they believe that the BPCA must continue operating the facility and is not allowed to close it, a spokesman for Silver said.”
I question the ulterior motives behind the closure. What happens to the space if they are allowed to close? Who takes over then? People are speculating that the BPCA allowed the pool to fall into disrepair with the notion that membership would decline and they would then be able to close it for good due to the lack of support from the neighborhood.
We need more options for recreational space, not less. Closing this facility is a ridiculous option. Fix the pool and get the place up and running again.