PROSPECT HEIGHTS — If you had a million dollars, how would you fix up your local park?
That’s what the Parks Department wants to ask Prospect Heights residents on Monday at a community input meeting to talk about Stroud Playground, one of six sites in Brooklyn earmarked to receive part of $130 million set aside this year to improve 35 parks across the city.
The funding is part of the Community Parks Initiative, an effort to improve and renovate public spaces in “densely populated, growing and lower-income communities,” the department said. Many of the Initiative’s planned capital projects are located in central Brooklyn, the South Bronx and upper Manhattan.
For Stroud, located directly next to M.S. 353 and P.S. 316 on Park Place between Classon and Grand avenues, the Parks Department said it hopes to rebuild and “re-imagine” the space “using 21st-century designs and materials,” according to an event flyer, and are “looking for neighborhood input and feedback on the kind of park you need and want to see.”
“Parents have already suggested a sandbox, big kid swings, a five-story twisty slide … a climbing wall and a parkour obstacle course,” wrote Tarrah Lantz of the P.S. 316 Parent Teacher Association. “This is our community park, so please come out and share your ideas!”
Stroud Playground will be reconstructed with a budget of $3.6 million from the Community Parks Initiative, according to the Parks Department.
The community input meeting for Stroud Playground will take place on Monday, Dec. 8 at 6:30 p.m. the Elijah G. Stroud School at 750 Classon Ave. To sign up to participate, visit nyc.gov/parks, email emily.sherrod@parks.nyc.gov or call (718) 965-6991.
