Date Changed to February 24th for DOME Playground Visioning Meeting

Here's why you should come: It's a popular park*, in desperate need of repair.  Not only is it well-used by neighborhood adults, parents and kids but it draws the handball players from Avenue I, the basketball players, exercise bar denizens, and others from Coney Island Avenue to Boro Park, and perhaps farther.  With some love and attention, it's stage could host singers, and its lawn could be Kensington's green commons. Kensington has no other.

The NYC Dept of Parks will have $950,000 to spend on Dome's renovation. Councilmember Brad Lander got the money for this project added to the NYC budget last spring, and Boro President Marty Markowitz added more.


The Visioning Meeting on February 24 is the first step in the redesign and renovation of DOME PLAYGROUND.




Please encourage all your friends, family, playmates, neighbors, sports team, classmates, your neighborhood association, mosque, synagogue, church, coworkers, etc.—everyone—to come.

DOME Playground survey
Last August approximately 70 people filled out the DOME survey/questionnaire—either in person at DOME or here. The survey asked how people spent their time at Dome Playground, how often they visited, what they liked/disliked about it, improvements and wishes for its future. It even asked people who didn’t go to DOME, why not.

Some improvements to think about
These are ideas suggested by Kensington/Boro Park residents who answered the survey. Please feel free to add your own.

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Entrances to Dome from both sides of park triangle (Dahill and 38^th)

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Better and more courts (handball, and basketball)

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Benches on handball court

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Tournaments for handball and basketball

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Set aside time for girls basketball, volley ball

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Exercise equipment

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Benches in oval grass area

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Nicer landscaping. More flowers, bushes.

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Picnic/game tables.  More shade.

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Restroom

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Entranceway spray shower? Does that still exist? Does it work?  Is it useful?

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Toddler playground improvements

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Bigger wading pool for kids

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Improvements to stage—for both performances and evening social dancing

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Performances on stage by local groups

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Art classes

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Exercise classes; tai chi

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Sports and recreation areas for girls 10-14

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Soccer field w/ times set aside for girls to play.

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More play equipment for 5-10 yr olds

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Repair of swamp in front of stage

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Ability to buy snack or drinks, ice cream close by.  A café?

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Grills for food

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More drinking fountains

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Spots for couples, grown singles of both sexes, families, and the elderly to visit, hang out or read.

How will this renovation work?
1. First a public meeting—the Visioning Meeting, February 24—to tell Brooklyn Parks what you would like to see at DOME for an improved, more attractive, useful green space.
2. Next, NYC Parks will start work on its design taking what you’ve said into consideration.
3. Possibly an additional public meeting next summer once NYC Parks has prepared conceptual plans, with a chance for further community comment.
4. NYC Parks starts renovation.  From design to digging could take as long as year and a half before it’s “shovel ready.”
5. A year to two later, first stage of renovation completed.
6. Another year before second and final stage of renovation completed.

*Please mark this meeting on your calendar.
*Please come and speak at it.
*Tell NYC PARKS how to make DOME Playground/Park a better and more appealing playground and green space for the Kensington/Boro Park area.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/B151/highlights/10974
*Situated on the northeast corner of 38th Street and Dahill Road, Dome Playground is named in honor of community activists Charles (1904-1984) and Jessie Dome (1904-1987). Bounded by 15 Avenue on the Northeast, off Cortelyou and Dahill roads.