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Senator Golden concert series is in its final month. Be sure to make it to one of the free concerts.

Friday, June 13th was groundbreaking ceremony for the new Carmine Carro Community Center.

The new Marine Park Community Center will be the Parks Department’s first state-of-the-art Green Building. With solar panels, a geo-thermal heating and cooling system, and a planted roof, this building is an example of the City’s commitment to an environmentally-friendly 21 st century.

The future Community Center will be named after Carmine Carro, the late President of the Marine Park Civic Association. It will feature multipurpose rooms for recreation and community programs to serve people of all ages. It will also include fully-accessible bathrooms, a kitchen, skylights and administrative offices and storage space.

The Center is funded in the amount of $11 million with $8 million from Mayor Bloomberg, $1.4 million from Council Member Fidler, $1.1 million from Senator Golden, $500,000 from Assembly Member Maisel and $30,000 from Assembly Member Weinstein.

Here is a Photo Gallery of the Event

The Marine Park Junior High School Band was there for some great entertainment.

and as always the ceremonial groundbreaking.

[Marine Park Family Day/Flickr]

Via SenatorGolden.com

Here is the new 2008 summer concert schedule to be held in the parks around our area. The concert series is presented by the Bay Ridge & Bensonhurst Beautification & Preservation Alliance,the Community Energy Response Team CERT1NYC and New York State Senator Marty Golden.

“Bring a blanket, a chair, your family and friends”
Concerts are FREE and open to the public.. All concerts begin at 7pm. Family days are 5pm to 8pm.
In case of poor weather, cancellations will be posted on the Concert Hotline by 5pm. Hotline # 718 236-7547

In bold are the Marine Park events.

Produced by MBS Music

Well the other night I went to the Marine Park Meeting to find out more about the kids that cried.

It was a festive meeting, they had an opening ceremony with Marine color guards accompanied by the Boy Scouts and a Veterans group, then they played taps.

All of the politicians were there, telling everyone about their upcoming events and recent accomplishments, thats all typical and mostly boring.

The most interesting and un-boring out of all of the news was the Marsh Reconstruction being done by Anthony Weiner. They will be regrading the sand behind the nature center, replanting marshes to filter water, and adding more trails. As this was being said I couldn’t help but notice that I got more Gerritsen Beach news at this Marine Park meeting. I did try to ask for more information about this project via email to Weiners office but they haven’t really responded yet.

On to the kid “sadness” park, there was a group of about 10 neighbors that patiently waited to speak their mind about the park. When they started to ask the question, they were “politely” cut off by the president who then explained what was going to happen.

He explained that there will be a private meeting to “get ideas down on paper” sometime next week between the Marine Park Civic, the Local PTA and the Principal. Then they will hold a public meeting to discuss the park, after which they will finally present their concerns/ideas to the National Park Trust.

Some of their concerns are: People coming in from outside the neighborhood, kids drinking and breaking bottles in the park, and public access to the basketball hoops. The residents also want the NYPD to lock up the park at night at a set time at night instead of the “Dawn till Dusk” rule.

Here is a small photo gallery.

Last year, Verizon started putting up utility poles for its new fiber-optic cable network in Marine Park. This completely surprised the residents. Homes that never had utility poles in front of their homes now had a 45 foot pole in front of their homes. Residents wanted to keep the community character by keeping the poles in the back homes.

With the help of local politicians the residents were able to get Verizon to work with the community.

Marine Park Civic formed a coalition of residents to work with Verizon, who is surprisingly working with the group. The group worked a deal with Verizon to have the work done in the back of the homes as long as people consent. There are a few blocks within Marine Park that have not yet signed the consent form, if they don’t sign by June 3rd, the compromised work cant be done and those blocks will be getting some nice utility poles in the front of their houses.

A $111 million plan, part of the mayor’s PlaNYC initiative, schoolyards to playground, aims to add over 200 acres to the city’s parks by 2010 by opening 290 schoolyards to public use playgrounds after school hours and during the weekend.

When school is out of session, local residents will have free reign of the playgrounds, with the the usual 8 a.m. until dusk restrictions. During the school year, the spaces will stay open on weekday evenings and all day during the weekend.

Marine Park’s P.S. 207 (4011 Fillmore Ave) is one of the schools that are part of the mayors plan. At the most recent Marine Park Civic Association meeting, the kids who had a part in designing the park, were there to show off and present their designs to the community. Then when the plans were introduced at the meeting by the children residents of Kimbal and Coleman Streets started to protest the park. The kids were obviously sad, they were just there to show off their designs to what they thought was an open community, after all who would protest a park?

The next scheduled Marine Park Civic Meeting will be May 20th @ 8:00 P.M at P.S. 207. However, there will be a meeting specifically to discuss this project with the Marine Park Civic Association and the P.S. 207 principal, yet to be scheduled.

Here is some more info on Schoolyard to Playgrounds.

To increase the amount of open space, Mayor Bloomberg has pledged to open 290 schoolyards in underserved neighborhoods and has committed $111 million in capital funding for playground improvements. The schoolyards will be open after school, on weekends, and during school breaks. Opening these spaces after hours will make playgrounds available to approximately 360,000 New York children by 2010. Sixty nine of these playgrounds were opened July 1, 2007.

The Parks Department has teamed up with the Department of Education and the Trust for Public Land (TPL), which works in cities across America to conserve land in order for people to enjoy local parks, playgrounds, and natural areas. Working together, the Parks Department, the Department of Education, and TPL will turn the remaining 221 schoolyards into model community parks through a participatory design process designing with ideas that are generated by the school community, including children, parents, and teachers. This design process facilitates exciting inter agency and community coordination and opens up dialogue to ensure continued success.

Continuing with our “one of these things doesn’t belong” game; up next is 3415 Fillmore Avenue. They completely squared off the front of the house then and added a floor. While walking down Fillmore you will immediately notice its out of character profile.

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Brand new on Avenue U is a Clean Rite Center Super Laundry Service Superstore right where the Marine Park Camera store used to be.

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I found this in Marine Park on E36th and Avenue T. I especially like that there is a second guy in a pen that says “I Agree!!”

I love these notes that people place on each others cars, its like a subtle road rage. I think I found my new thing that im going to take more pictures of.