New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi, and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Sue Donoghue recently announced a renovation and investment plan for the Brownsville Recreation Center at 1555 Linden Boulevard in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The plan sets aside $160 million to fully rebuild the 70-year-old building and is a part of New York City’s $112.4 billion fiscal year 2025 adopted budget.
The Brownsville Recreation Center features a number of publicly accessible amenities, including an indoor pool, fitness equipment, and community spaces. Its renovation plan is part of a broader, ongoing effort to invest in New York City’s parks and recreation centers.
Brownsville Recreation Center, via Google Maps
Beyond renovation plans, the city has also announced plans to invest $15 million to hire 240 full-time maintenance and operations staff who will provide a second shift of cleaning service at 100 hotspots in 62 public parks across all five boroughs.
“New Yorkers across the five boroughs deserve public recreation spaces that feel safe and welcoming,” said Deputy Mayor Joshi. “This investment in the Brownsville Recreation Center and 62 parks citywide, helps the Adams administration deliver them. When people walk into their local recreation center or take their kids to play in a park, they should be able to feel the care and attention that has gone into those spaces: a symbol of a city that is joyful, safe, and attended to.”
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It’s interesting how Mayor Adams can come up with $160 million to renovated a dilapidated rec center in Brownsville, but he can’t find $20 million to restore the 100 year old Tony Dapolito Recreation Center in Chelsea which is a historic LANDMARKED building. Constituents don’t have a collective I.Q. of -2. Obviously some developer has Adams’ ear about building a tower on that expensive corner and he’s willing to demolish a landmarked building that the community loves and served them for 100 years and which the city hasn’t done diddly-squat to repair and restore.
TP, not in Chelsea, but at the very bottom of the West Village!
We locals have always simply called it the Carmine Street Pool.
And I agree 1000%. It’s a sin to see this much loved and used
community space vacant and decaying.
Thankyou for bringing attention to this matter.
I can’t tell if you are serious or trolling.
Are you really advocating to defund a rec center in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city to pay for a pool in one of the richest and most exclusive neighborhoods where half the residents have access to private pools and where all of the working class population has been declining for decades?
Spoken like a true American Racist
I am from this Community. I had a Private school education and moved away and have been very successful. I’d venture to propose a bet, if we take an IQ test and mine is higher than yours, YOU contribute to the fund to improve our recreation center. There are some very skilled, unique, proud and dangerous people here. A real mix, true gumbo soup if you will. You know like Mike Tyson?! I’d be mindful of the level of disrespect you post on line.