| No. 61 | Monday, January 14, 2002 |
- Commissioner Stern joins Parks officials, elected officials, and community members at 11 a.m. today for a ribbon-cutting at the historic Highbridge Park in the Bronx to celebrate its $739,000 reconstruction. Renovations to the park include the construction of a stone veneer wall, colored concrete pavement, steps with handrails, and steel bar fencing, as well as the installation of a new seating area, benches, game tables, a drinking fountain, and a thematic spray shower capturing the spirit of the old aqueduct. Highbridge Park is located at 170th Street and University Avenue in the Bronx. More info>>
- Commissioner Stern meets with Parks Supervisors of Maintenance & Operations (SPMO's) in the Arsenal Conference Room from 1:30-3:30 p.m. today. The conference room is located on the third floor of the Arsenal, which is at 64th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan.
- Queens begins a project to process the approximately 600 cubic yards of wood created by removing trees infected with the Asian Longhorned Beetle. A piece of special equipment called a tub grinder, borrowed from the citywide division, will be used to chip the wood into a more manageable size so it can be properly incinerated.
- The Resident Engineers' office space in the Silver Lake Tennis House on Staten Island is being prepared and painted for their return. The tennis house, located at Hart Boulevard and Revers Street, served as the temporary administrative offices for Cromwell while the recreation center underwent a $5 million reconstruction. The center is found at Pier 6 and Murray Hulbert Avenue in Staten Island.
- The storehouses at the Cromwell Recreation Center on Staten Island will be relocated this week to their new home at the rear of the basketball gym there. This is a 5 x 5 project, which entails five Parks divisions and five districts concentrating their skills on a single site in need over a period of five days.
- The years 1994 to 2001 have seen Parks grow by leaps and bounds. Read about the top 25 Parks accomplishments over the past eight years in Parks' other daily newsletter, the Daily Plant.