Posted on 02/21/2021 4:11:47 AM PST by Eleutheria5
The de Blasio administration is planning to eliminate one of two ice skating rinks run by the Trump Organization in the northern part of Central Park, despite strong public opposition.
Over 4,000 people have signed a petition decrying a $150 million plan to refurbish Lasker Rink and Pool near W. 106th Street, saying that it will deprive local residents of much-needed recreation space.
The renovation will reduce the size of the rink area, leaving room for just one rink for skaters, and also make a public swimming pool operated by the city’s Parks Department smaller.
The Trump Organization’s 20-year concession to run the rink ends in 2021, before the project is scheduled to start. A Parks Department spokeswoman said her agency “continues to explore how the facility will be operated in the future.”
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Reps for the Trump Organization did not return messages.
The space currently occupied by the larger rink and pool will be replaced with a nature trail, a stream, and splash pads.
“We’ve heard a lot about a stream but we don’t think that a stream is as important in the park as our hockey rinks. Thousands of kids have been playing hockey at Lasker over the years. Why should they stop now because of a stream?” asked 12-year-old Bronx resident Michaelangelo Windly.
Manhattan resident Susan Opotow also decried the plan.
“What the smaller pool will do is it will be longer lines, extremely crowded conditions for swimming. Nobody goes into a swimming pool expecting a subway car at rush hour. And for skating it decimates half the program,” said Opotow.
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And for skating it decimates half the program,” said Opotow.
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You gotta know your fractions to figure out that one.
Math is racist, dontcha know.
Trump could score some major points if he would open those rinks to the general public at no cost.
The city would have to agree to it, and Wilhelm is closing the rinks six weeks ahead of his contract with Trump expiring, and let the little fellers eat cake. Besides, opening it to the entire public would also mean an end to the Haarlem little league hockey practice.
Proves once again he is a dope
No surprise. The insane marxist maniac had “BLM” painted on a city street to torment Trump. He is unfit for any public office.
Trump knows contracts inside and out.
And if that BLM in front of Trump Tower wasn’t “incitement”, I don’t know what is.
A petulant child.
Yeh, watching Fox. They had the guy over the Harlem hockey youth league on earlier. He was very upset. That’s my point about scoring points by opening the rinks to the public. Trumps contract runs through April I believe was said. Seems like Trumps lawyers could get a stay on DeBlasio’s EO to shut down the rinks early as there’s no justification other than vindictiveness.
Manhattanites would still hate Trump and vote democrat. They are beyond hopeless and pity.
Money
Trump can sue for lost revenue
How many jobs go away with THAT move?
He was proven unfit for public office long before that. He ought to be hauled out of Gracy Mansion in a straight jacket. But BLM on the street in front of Trump Tower alone would be enough to have him certified.
Manhattanites are politically irrelevant. The street theater would be national, global even.
In another article I think I read about 250.
And found at least one article confirming it, Dennis Michael Lynch no less.
http://dennismichaellynch.com/report-de-blasio-to-close-nyc-rinks-to-kids-to-punish-trump/
He’s so CLUELESS, I wish he’d do another absolutely IDIOTIC thing similar to his New Year’s Eve dance with his wife in Times Square. I wish he and his bride would go out there and skate around with nobody else there! That would be awesome!
Playing to the racist stereotype that Blacks can’t swim?
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