Ocean Breeze Park
Ground was broken today at the $70 million Ocean Breeze Track and Field
Complex at Ocean Breeze Park in Staten Island, one of eight regional
parks being improved as part of PlaNYC and the first public indoor
track and field facility in the borough. The 135,000-square-foot
complex in South Beach will feature a 200-meter eight-lane track, two
long jump pits, a pole vault, a high jump and two shot-put areas. The
facility, which will have seating for 2,500 spectators, will be located
on a 10-acre parcel of the 110-acre Ocean Breeze Park. Construction is
slated for completion by the end of 2012. Other city parks that will be
developed as part of PlaNYC are the High Bridge and Fort Washington
Park in Manhattan; Soundview Park in the Bronx; McCarren Pool and
Calvert Vaux Park in Brooklyn; and Highland Park and Rockaway Beach in
Queens. TRD
