{"id":196360,"date":"2026-04-14T03:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196360\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:14:38","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-west-playground-restroom-construction-enters-11th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196360\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | West Playground Restroom Construction Enters 11th Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It&#8217;s been 11 years since plans were announced to bring a public bathroom to West Playground in Gravesend.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Half of the playground is currently lined with fences and posters that say \u201cwork in progress,\u201d but many neighbors say they haven&#8217;t seen any.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I don\u2019t feel like there\u2019s been any progress,&#8221; Gravesend resident Anthony Short said. &#8220;I haven  \u2019t seen construction or anything. I just see the thing blocked off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbor Aman Habie describes what he has seen over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThey are very lazy,&#8221; Habie said. &#8220;One day working, one week not working. Two days working, two weeks not working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The design phase began in April 2015 and took five years to complete, finishing in April 2020. It then took another two years to choose and register contractors.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the work permits at the site, \u201cIridium Construction Corp,\u201d \u201cAPS Electric Inc.\u201d and \u201cNCA Plumbing &amp; Heating LLC\u201d were all selected for the project. It is currently in the construction phase, which started in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The parks department projected completion for last April, but that date has since been changed on the <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/planning-and-building\/capital-project-tracker\/project\/7025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parks Department website<\/a> to June 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Meanwhile, the sign at the construction site says anticipated completion is scheduled for &#8220;Spring 2027.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 tried calling all three contractors, but no one picked up.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 also reached out to the mayor\u2019s office and the Parks Department and is waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The only acknowledgement of the delays is on the Parks website, which reads \u201cDue to COVID-related impacts, this project may have experienced schedule delays.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been 11 years since plans were announced to bring a public bathroom to West Playground in Gravesend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-196360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}