Bushwick Inlet Soccer Pavilion In The Works
[nggallery id=”51088″ template=galleryview] The soccer field at Bushwick Inlet Park at North 9th Street and Kent Avenue in Williamsburg opened for business last January. The second phase of the project—a pavilion with a new North Brooklyn headquarters for the Parks Department as well as rest rooms along with some other kind of community facility on…
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The soccer field at Bushwick Inlet Park at North 9th Street and Kent Avenue in Williamsburg opened for business last January. The second phase of the project—a pavilion with a new North Brooklyn headquarters for the Parks Department as well as rest rooms along with some other kind of community facility on the roof—has only recently gotten underway. In fact, we’d forgotten that this building was in the works until we biked past the site yesterday and saw a rendering posted to the plywood fence. The roof looks like a combination of some kind of plantings and photovoltaics. Pretty slick.
PS – what would be really fantastic is if they built out the river edge of this section of the park. Right now, the soccer field ends at a chain-link fence, not the spiffy waterfront access and pier shown in this rendering.
I’m pretty sure that this project is funded by the city – no OSA money involved in the capital work.
Yeah… slick 🙂
nice.
“OSA (Open Space Alliance) is the North Brooklyn equivalent of Prospect Park Alliance. That’s where the money from the concerts is supposed to be going.”
yeah – we better be seeing something nice with all that concert money. $50 to see a show where you get herded like cattle is NOT cool.
OSA (Open Space Alliance) is the North Brooklyn equivalent of Prospect Park Alliance. That’s where the money from the concerts is supposed to be going.
Most of the nice parks are maintained by primarily private funds (Central Park, Prospect Park). Don’t know about this park or the new one on the pier. Probably can assume the same… but you’re right. If no one is paying for it, it ain’t gonna be the NYC Park Dept with their current funding.
I’m thrilled that the City is creating new parks and recreation facilities but I really wonder where the money is going to come from to maintain these new additions. As it is, the Parks Dept. budget is a tiny (less than 1%) portion of the City budget and any park without major private money receives minimal attention. More new parks just stretches an already bare bones budget even farther.
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park (http://www.bushwickinletpark.org/) have more images (click on image gallery for a slide show, the last 4 or 5 slides are of this project). The slanted green part of the roof has terraces and walkways, and is to double as a viewing stand for events below.