The Bellerose Playground is closed. The contractor for the Schools Construction Authority was back at the Playground yesterday. Today the playground gates are padlocked and there are two portable toilets near the comfort station. Some children...
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Borough President Donovan Richards, District Attorney Melinda Katz, and NYC Human Rights Commissioner Carmelyn Malalis hosted a Hate Crimes Forum. Resources The QGA video, answering the question: “How have discrimination, bias, or hate impacted...
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It was great to see so many enjoying our reconstructed playground on some of the recent warm March days. It was re-opened, without fanfare, on October 9, 2020. But the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation did not give the contractor a clean...
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In the fall of 2019 the BCCA obtained bulbs from the NYC Daffodil Project for P.S.133. Early one cold morning, Principal Nicole Colon, teacher Amanda Arcuri and students planted those bulbs. They beautified the front of PS133 last spring, and...
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The Reading Garden project recently moved up from the Design Phase to the Procurement stage. At the February Community Board 13Q Parks Committee zoom meeting, Queens Parks Commissioner Dockett, when asked about the status, thought the project...
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The newly reconstructed Bellerose Playground re-opened on October 9, 2020. Councilman Barry Grodenchik had another on-site meeting with Parks and NYC School Construction Authority earlier this week to push for the re-opening. Midday today the...
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The design for a Reading Garden at the Bellerose Playground was unveiled at the monthly Community Board 13Q Parks Committee meeting (via Zoom) on June 9, 2020. NYC Parks Dept. landscape architect James Mituzas and Parks designer Amber Betances...
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On a mild Friday afternoon, January 10, 2020, NYC Parks & Recreation held a public scoping meeting for the Reading Garden at the Bellerose Playground. Landscape Architect James Mituzas ran the meeting, along with assigned designer Amber...
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On January 9th, BCCA sponsored a free FDNY CPR Program at our regular meeting location (before our Boro President Candidates Forum at P.S.133 later in the evening). It included a 45 minute basic class on compressions-only CPR, practice on...
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On a very cold and windy Thursday, Senator John Liu and Councilman Barry Grodenchik came together with BCCA Board members, PS133 Principal Nicole Colon and students, and neighbors for the official press conference to announce that funding had...
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Early on Aug. 30th, paving of the site began. By late evening the playground area had been completed. The multi-purpose play area was almost completed. A small area back near the handball courts had to wait for the second layer of asphalt. ...
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The multi-purpose play area has been back-filled after a lengthy period of excavation and placement of drainage pipes and dry wells. Actual work at the site by the New Jersey contractor and his sub-contractors appears to be on a more frequent...
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