TONIGHT: McGolrick Playground Meeting

McGolrick Playground is closing this year for renovations to install new new play equipment, spray showers, pavement, fencing benches and plantings.

The design is already set, and according to the Parks Department, the project has already been awarded to a contractor. It’s now undergoing approval by the comptroller’s office.

The project, with funding from the mayor’s office, borough president’s office and the City Council, will take 12 to 18 months to complete.

Where will local kids play in the meantime?

The McGolrick Park Neighborhood Alliance is organizing a meeting tonight to bring together parents, volunteers and children together to discuss alternative play spaces.

With the Greenpoint Library branch also closed for renovations, kids in north Brooklyn will surely need a place to keep busy and active.

The meeting is tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Park Church Co-op (129 Russell Street).

For more information, see here.