Media Advisories
Monday, July 09, 2007
No. 107
Parks To Break Ground At City Line Park
DATE: Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
LOCATION: City Line Park / Atlantic Avenue & Fountain Avenue / BROOKLYN (near the border with Queens)
EVENT & PHOTO-OP: Commissioner Adrian Benepe will join City Council Member Erik Martin Dilan, State Senator Martin Malave Dilan and community members to break ground on $1.5 million in renovations at City Line Park.
DETAILS: Thanks to an allocation of $1.5 million from Council Member Dilan, Parks is completely renovating City Line Park.
The redesign of the park will include a new spray shower, tot swings, and play equipment with a subway theme. The handball and basketball courts will be reconstructed. A new sitting area will be created with 1939 World’s Fair-style benches, picnic tables, and perimeter and entrance gardens. New trees and shrubs will also adorn the park.
This parcel of land was acquired by the City in 1886 as the site for the Ridgewood Pumping Station, which brought water to Brooklyn from the Ridgewood Reservoir in Queens. When the Croton Reservoir became the main source of New York City’s water in 1917, there was no longer a need to appropriate water from Queens. This land was then transferred to Parks between 1937 and 1949.
CONTACT: Warner Johnston / Phil Abramson (212) 360-1311