From NY1:Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and professional skateboarders attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday at Flushing Meadows Corona Park's new skate park.
The park was opened as part of the "Adopt-a-Park" program, where small businesses, community groups and individuals provide funds to refurbish city parks.
The $1.1 million for the park, which is located at the old Astral Fountain from the World's Fair, came from the Maloof Brothers, who own the Sacramento Kings and the Palms Casino in Las Vegas.
"We decided let's take advantage of it, build a beautiful park for the kids, and donate it to the kids,” said Joe Maloof of Maloof Companies.
"We brought them around, showed them some locations, and they just fell in love with this spot at the fountain at the site of the state pavilion and the unisphere,” said Queens Borough Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski. “It's a beautiful spot in Flushing Meadow."
Skaters are giving the park rave reviews.
Note: If you live in an area of Queens without waterfront towers, you are forced to rely on the generosity of strangers. Elsewhere in this City, taxpayers actually foot the bill for park construction...
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Yet the NYS Pavilion remains abandoned as Lewandowski and other pols praise the new skate park.
Will the city require helmets to be worn while using this dangerous park facility? You know these daredevils don't wear them. What was the city thinking???
Why is New York City becoming like Los Angeles (or California for that matter)?
Manhattan has the elitist poshy phony vibe to it. Now QUeens is getting a skate park...
RIP NYC
It's a nice skateboard park - the city has plenty of money for the new Brooklyn Park - which developers demanded to give their nearby projects a sales boost. When will Tank Park in Elmhurst ever be finished? It looks like they halted construction and it is overgrown with weeds.
whats up with all the hating? its about time something like this was invested into. Instead of the kids destroying public and private property now they have a great place to skate. Queens is the best borough!! we deserve it!
I agree that it's nice for the kids to be able to hang out in in a park with clean air surrounded by grass and trees, as opposed to in an urban jungle.
I'd rather have a skate park then some dumb metal domes stupid hipster parents let their accidental kids play on in 90-degree weather.
That's great. I wish something like this was around when I was kid. Instead wherever we went with our boards we got chased away by the cops or something. All we wanted to do was ride our skateboards...
Anonymous said...
I'd rather have a skate park then some dumb metal domes stupid hipster parents let their accidental kids play on in 90-degree weather.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Those are well off apathetic or right wing yuppie parents. Theres plenty of them that work in the financial sector and work for the Wall St Journal paper.
I dont think that makes NYC into Los Angeles by having a skate park at all.
That sounds ridiculous.
Some people make a good career out of skateboarding and they work their asses off for it too. They shouldnt have to just hang around Union Sq where theres not much to skate and they get arrested anyways.
NYC is the last to get bike lanes and one or two lousy skate parks out of this much space with 8 plus million people not to mention the 7 million people on Long Island.
And yes skate parks require you to wear protective gear and sign papers.
I think the skate park is long over due.
It'll keep the kids off the street and givethem somewhere safe to do something constructive.
My nephew use to travel to brooklyn and manhattan
with his friends and i thought that it was too far.
now he is closer to home and i feel more bettter about his safety.
Manhattan has the elitist poshy phony vibe to it. Now QUeens is getting a skate park...
Skate parks aren't elitist. I saw one in western NY in Jamestown - hardly an "elitist" town.
Just a bunch of small town kids having a good time.
do u have to pay to get in?
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