The Park Slope Armory will reopen in mid-January, project officials told
the Brooklyn Paper, and this time, they say, the deadline is a real
one. The newly-purposed recreation facility’s debut has been postponed time and
again, but the city has now completed all necessary building
inspections, said Sean Andrews, executive director of the Prospect Park YMCA.
Within roughly one week, the YMCA expects to take over the building from
the Department of Homeless Services. It will take between six and
eight weeks to turn the building into a gym and school
recreation center, Andrews said. The space will open for
schoolchildren first, then to members of the gym, whose $40-per-month
dues will be used to subsidize the Armory’s offerings for kids,
seniors and low-income families. Thousands are slated to converge upon
the new space for Borough President Marty Markowitz’s State of the
Borough Address Feb. 3. [Brooklyn Paper via Post]