In case you missed it, last night’s CB1 Parks/Landmarks Committee meeting to discuss the McCarren Pool renovations was cancelled. Instead, Parks and the project architect will make a presentation before the full CB1 Board next Tuesday (10 February) at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be at the usual location, the Swingin’ 60s Senior Center, 211 Ainslie Street (corner of Manhattan Ave.). As always, sign up before 6:15 if you want to speak.
As for the pool, less will probably more. Or less.
The drive to turn the People’s Firehouse into the People’s Community Center is picking up steam. Expect to see a lot more announcements in the near future (and a lot more requests for help to make this worthy project a reality).
From a wonderful series of photos at the Times’ Abstract City blog, a 11211-specific slide.
Today’s unseasonably balmy temperatures made it a perfect day to head down to the river and enjoy some fresh air and sunshine. Of course you can’t do that in a state park in Williamsburg, so we had to head to Gantry State Park in Long Island City.
Back here in Williamsburg, the State saved another $444.44 by keeping our state “park” closed for today – the only state park in the city that is closed this winter. The least the state could do is start a shuttle bus service to DUMBO and Long Island City.
(And I bet if our state park was open today it would have had a lot more people than the handful we saw at Gantry.)
