{"id":238221,"date":"2026-05-20T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238221\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:17:06","slug":"news-12-bronx-locals-celebrate-reopening-of-historic-orchard-beach-pavilion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238221\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Locals Celebrate Reopening Of Historic Orchard Beach Pavilion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The historic Orchard Beach Pavilion is reopening just in time for beach season.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">For the first time in 17 years, the public can once again access the Orchard Beach Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The reopening comes after a $114 million reconstruction project led by New York City Parks and New York City Economic Development Corporation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The newly renovated pavilion features improved accessibility and brand-new concession spaces for visitors to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sonya, who\u2019s lived in The Bronx her whole life, has anticipated the pavilion reopening for years.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cWe\u2019ve waited so long for this. The environment, the fun, it\u2019s in The Bronx. We get together the community and it\u2019s so beautiful out here and I\u2019m gonna enjoy it all summer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYC Parks public beaches officially open this Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The historic Orchard Beach Pavilion is reopening just in time for beach season. For the first time in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-238221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238221","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=238221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}