The Parks Dept is planning to renovate Stroud Playground which extends from Park PL to Sterling PL bw Washington and Classon Aves (adjacent to PS 316/MS 353). The project will involve capital improvements and a new design. Stroud is one of 6 community parks in Brooklyn that have been identified for an upgrade. Two events are scheduled. One is a celebration (11/24) and the other is a scope meeting (12/8) for the community to share their input and ideas about their playground needs and wants. Sandbox? Big kid swings? 5-story twisty slide into a sandbox of big kid swings? Maybe a climbing wall and parkour obstacle course. See details about the launch and public scope meeting below.
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The Community Parks Initiative (CPI)
http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/framework-for-an-equitable-future/community-parks-initiative is launching soon at Stroud Playground- and we would like to invite you! Through CPI, NYC Parks is investing more resources- money, staff, recreational programming, and community partnership building- in parks in communities that need it the most. NYC Parks will spend $130 million to rebuild 35 community parks- including 6 parks in Brooklyn.
We would like to invite you to the official CPI Launch in Brooklyn at Stroud Playground on November 24th from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This event will be a celebration of the launch of the Community Parks Initiative in Brooklyn and the first round of planned capital improvements.
Two weeks after the launch of CPI, NYC Parks will be holding a public scope meeting for the design of Stroud Playground. We invite community members to attend this scope meeting to provide community input and feedback on local needs and your ideas on Stroud Playground can better serve the neighborhood. The Stroud Playground scope meeting will be on Monday, December 8th from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at Elijah G. Stroud School (MS 353 / PS 316) 750 Classon Avenue. The school entrance is on Sterling Place between Classon and Washington Avenues.
We hope you can join us! Please also share with your networks. Please RSVP for the CPI launch event to 718-965-8912 and email me at emily.sherrod@parks.nyc.gov mailto:emily.sherrod@parks.nyc.gov to RSVP for the Stroud Playground scope meeting.
For more information on the Community Parks Initiative and the Framework for an Equitable Future, please check out: Framework for an Equitable Future
http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/framework-for-an-equitable-future/community-parks-initiative.
Event details:
· Launch of the Community Parks Initiative
Monday, November 24th from 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Stroud Playground (Entrance on Park Place between Washington and Classon Avenues)
RSVP to 718-965-8912
· Scope Meeting for Stroud Playground
Monday, December 8th from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Elijah G. Stroud School (MS 353 / PS 316) 750 Classon Avenue (Entrance on Sterling Place between Classon and Washington Avenues)
RSVP to emily.sherrod@parks.nyc.gov mailto:emily.sherrod@parks.nyc.gov or 718-965-6991
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To say nothing of the pot-smoking teens and other surly individuals who hang out there. I enjoyed being pelted by water balloons by said teens as I walked through one recent summer night.
I just found them on the web.
Look, I don't like broken glass and trash either, and I understand why the playground would make you uncomfortable. But there's already a kiddie fortress all of one block away, and no equivalent public space (for all the public) closer than Eastern Parkway.
Have you talked to the guys playing dominoes and asked their opinion about what improvements they want? They certainly spend more time there than anyone else and have earned the right, I would think, to be involved.
May 5, 2015 - 6:00pm
Sponsored By:
Brooklyn Community Board 8
Location:
St. John's Recreation Center
1251 Prospect Place Brooklyn
NY
United States
Description:
At the May 5 CB8 Parks Committee meeting, designers from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation will present a detailed layout of a new proposed design for Stroud Playground, located on Park Place between Washington and Classon Avenues. The presentation follows a public scoping meeting held in December where community members gave input regarding local needs.
Stroud Playground is one of six Brooklyn parks being renovated under the Parks Department's Community Parks Initiative.
Open to:
General public
http://phndc.org/events/community-board-8-parks-committee-meeting
http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/34189/friends-of-underhill-playground-meeting-saturday-august-20/p1
From Day 1 of the playground's reopening, the weed smokers were out numbered by nannies, parents and children.
I think we all know what crownheightster is getting at though...
aka tomorrow
http://phndc.org/events/community-board-8-parks-committee-meeting
Instead, I imagine them being like a NYC version of the show Parks and Recreation.
NYC Parks to present plans for renovation of Stroud Playground at CB8 Parks Committee meeting
When: TOMORROW, Tuesday, June 9, 6:00PM
Where: CNR-Center Light Health Care Center, 727 Classon Avenue (corner of Park Place)
We have announced this presentation twice before only to have it rescheduled, so hopefully the third time will be a charm. Designers from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation will present a detailed layout of a new proposed design for Stroud Playground, located on Park Place between Washington and Classon Avenues. The presentation will take place at a meeting of the CB8 Parks Committee to be held at CNR tomorrow night, June 9, at 6PM. The design is based upon input collected from the public at a community meeting held in December.
"The design calls for an asphalt walking track to be built around an
all-new artificial turf field and two new basketball courts on the east
side of the green space.The new playground will also include two play areas
— one for toddlers and another for grade school-aged kids — with
fountains, water “bubblers” and a handball court. Adult fitness
equipment and game tables are also slated for the park.
The renovated playground will also include an "outdoor classroom," with a a
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150615/prospect-heights/prospect-heights-playground-redesign-features-track-turf-waterworksrain garden that students from the adjacent Elijah Stroud campus, which
houses M.S. 353 and P.S. 316, can use. The play space will also be
decorated with new trees and flowers, the plan shows."
The design is now set:
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151119/crown-heights/heres-final-design-for-44m-stroud-playground-renovation
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/11/20/crown_heights_playground_gets_a_5m_sustainable_revamp.php
"The design calls for an asphalt walking track to be built around an
all-new artificial turf field and two new basketball courts on the east
side of the green space.The new playground will also include two play areas
— one for toddlers and another for grade school-aged kids — with
fountains, water “bubblers” and a handball court.
--->Adult fitness
equipment and game tables are also slated for the park. <----
The renovated playground will also include an "outdoor classroom," with a a
rain garden that students from the adjacent Elijah Stroud campus, which
houses M.S. 353 and P.S. 316, can use. The play space will also be
decorated with new trees and flowers, the plan shows."
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150615/prospect-heights/prospect-heights-playground-redesign-features-track-turf-waterworks