The Sunset Park Recreation Center is expected to reopen after years of renovations.<\/p>\n
The facility closed in 2023 to undergo construction, which included restoring the rotunda and installing a new HVAC system.<\/p>\n
The Parks Department website said the $11.5 Million project faced several delays due, in part, to COVID-19-related impacts. A spokesperson also told News 12 that the city paused construction during pool season so residents could access the facility.<\/p>\n
Julio Pena, chairperson of Community Board 7, said the project was scheduled for 18 months and turned into almost three years.<\/p>\n
“They give us one timeline, it turns out to be completely different; and the community is left with an empty bag of promises,” said Pena.<\/p>\n
Pena said the renovations are vital because it’s not only about having a pool and a gym, but it’s about giving the community the resources that they need.<\/p>\n
“Sunset Park is already very limited in the public spaces we have and community centers, and not having this place open really impacts all of us,” said Pena.<\/p>\n
“It does represent a really important community center and place for people to move around, especially those with less resources,” said Owen MacDonnell, of Sunset Park.<\/p>\n
“We have the YMCA, but that’s in Park Slope, so it’s a little hike to get there,\u201d said Jonathan, of Sunset Park, who only provided his first name. \u201cEverybody who lives around the area definitely looks forward to coming [to the Sunset Park Rec Center].”<\/p>\n
The Parks Department website said the center is now expected to reopen this February, while a spokesperson told News 12 that it will open this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sunset Park Recreation Center is expected to reopen after years of renovations. The facility closed in 2023…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,38018,44315,7125],"class_list":{"0":"post-94710","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","14":"tag-recreation","15":"tag-recreation-center","16":"tag-sunset-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94710","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=94710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}