A rendering of the full renovation project that is underway at Plane Tree Park in Ozone Park, which is centered around a brand-new 10,350 square-foot skate park. Rendering courtesy of NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation.
The skate park itself is depicted in this rendering. Renderings courtesy of NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation.
The city Parks Department released the rendering of the giant skate park that is set to be built at Plane Tree Park in Ozone Park.
The 10,350 square-foot skate park is only part of a huge renovation of the park that is on Atlantic and 95 avenues between 88 and 89 streets.
The renovation, which will cost a total of $1.7 million and is funded by both Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), will also include two refurbished basketball courts, and a walking track, adult fitness equipment, sitting areas, trees and shrubs.
Ulrich, who contributed $723,000 to the project according to a spokesperson at the Parks Department, said that skate park will be a much welcome addition to the neighborhood. Kids, who often used the nearby parking lot at the Pathmark shopping center as their makeshift skating rink, can now use a brand new skating park and they don’t have to leave the neighborhood, he said.
“Rather than chase the kids away, they actually have a place to go now,” Ulrich said.
He added that the new park will also benefit the people who go to the shopping center and complained about teenagers skating in the parking lot. Ulrich first announced the renovations at the Our Neighbors of Ozone Park Civic Association meeting back in February.
As for what the skate park will consist of, according to a Parks Department spokesperson, the design of the park will feature two-, three- and five-star sections, grind rails, hubba ledges, a stamped brick quarter pipe and a number of banks and slopes.
According to the rendering of the renovation project, it will also consist of a new layer of asphalt pavement along the outer edges of the skate park, a new 12” high chain link fence surrounding one of the basketball courts and a new bike rack. It will not touch the existing handball courts that are to the left of the soon-to-be skate park or the playground to the right of the park.
The Parks Department spokesperson said that the estimated completion date of the Planetree Park renovation is the fall of 2013.
By Luis Gronda
