Prospect Park Alliance Details $60 Million Project
At the Community Board 6 meeting on Wednesday night, the head of the Prospect Park Alliance, Tupper Thomas, fleshed out some of the details of an exciting new project called Lakeside Center. Slated to cost $60 million, the 18-month effort will re-landscape 26 acres of parkland from the intersection of Parkside and Ocean Avenues to…
At the Community Board 6 meeting on Wednesday night, the head of the Prospect Park Alliance, Tupper Thomas, fleshed out some of the details of an exciting new project called Lakeside Center. Slated to cost $60 million, the 18-month effort will re-landscape 26 acres of parkland from the intersection of Parkside and Ocean Avenues to Lincoln Road and Breeze Hill; a skating rink next to the existing Wollman rink and an area dedicated to roller-skating. The Alliance currently has about half of the required funds lined up. In addition to the embarking on the Lakeside project, the Alliance plans a $1.8 million refurbishment of the Vanderbilt Playground, a pet project of Councilman DeBlasio. The Parade Ground is also getting a tune-up and new bathrooms added.
A More Visitor-Friendly, Scenic Prospect Park [Brooklyn Eagle]
The Tupper Lady happens to be one of the unsung heroes of Brooklyn, an incredibly dedicated public servant (and Brooklynite) and steward of this amazing treasure. I have met her before a parks concert, alone and sans entourage, picking up trash. The Lakeside Center has some debatable features (none of which are set in stone yet), but in its broad outlines it does represent a visionary evolution for a dated, deteriorated, and underachieving component of the park. Know before you dis.
I’m in the park at least 2x per day (all year) but I sure as hell don’t think it needs a 60m “upgrade.” somebody needs to send the Tupper Lady back to Connecticut where she can play with her horsey set.
I feel you slick i love the whole park but the lefferts side is more interesting.
I think a lot of people have been in the park, but many have confined their exploration to the long meadow and other areas close to Park Slope.
However, the Lefferts Gardens side is far more interesting.
“LM” beat me to it, but the Lakeside center will be a big plus for PLG 🙂
I can’t speak for my get-in-the-Volvo-wagon-and-head-to-the-country-house-in-Connecticut-every-weekend neighbors that you all seem to think exclusively populate Brooklyn Heights, but at least among my friends, we all regularly head to the park to go running, bike riding, skating, play soccer, go to the zoo and carousel, listen to music at the bandshell, or just hang out. It’s a ten minute subway ride to Grand Army Plaza, a 15-minute bike ride and a 25-minute run. I do admit that we don’t use the playgrounds since we have many here and in Dumbo. As Brooklyn Bridge Park gets built, maybe we’ll go to Prospect Park less for general recreation and more for special events like skating or concerts. We head into Manhattan for lots of things but parks are almost never the reason.
How tragic for the benighted inhabitants of Williamsburg, Greenpoint and the Heights! More greensward for the rest of us!
I would like to be wrong about that but Williamsburg and Greenpoint and the Heights even aren’t all that close and many people head towards Manhattan rather than into Brooklyn.
“I would guess that many Brownstoner readers haven’t spent much (if any) time there.”
Are you serious?