Year-Round Ice Skating Rink Proposed for Uptown Playground Updated March 15, 2012

Year-Round Ice Skating Rink Proposed for Uptown Playground Updated March 15, 2012

March 15, 2012 7:57am | By Carla Zanoni, DNAinfo Social Media Editor

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez has proposed that the Parks Department convert a storage building in the playground into a year-round children's recreation center. (DNAinfo/Carla Zanoni)

UPPER MANHATTAN — Despite this year’s unseasonably warm winter, City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez is thinking up ways for kids to have fun uptown when the cold weather returns.

The Councilman has proposed the Parks Department refurbish a former storage building in Anne Loftus Playground into a year-round children’s recreation center, complete with activities for kids to stay warm and entertained.

And for children who are feeling a bit more adventurous, Rodriguez would like to see the department install an ice skating rink in the center of the playground, which now has spray showers in place of a former wading pool.

Rodriguez said he would like to see a rink just like the ones in Central or Bryant Park.

“We need to bring more winter activities uptown, and I think by doing something like this we could bring more people outside during the winter,” Rodriguez told DNAinfo. 

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