Psych Center plan includes $1.2 million for Little League
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ÂÂ ÂÂ The state is planning to move two Little League fields on the campus of the Bronx Psychiatric Center at a cost to taxpayers as much as $1.2 million, Gannett News Service has learned.
The project is part of a plan, which could cost as much as $350 million, to overhaul theÂÂ center, which is in northeast Bronx close to the Westchester border.
Assembly Republican leader James Tedisco, R-Schenectady, said Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli should look at the move, to see if the state can afford it.
“This is an illustration of old habits dying hard,’’ he said.ÂÂ “I’m all for little leagues and boys’ clubs – they’re fantastic,’’ he said. “But when we’re facing an $8 billion deficit, I’m not sure this is the best way to spend our money.’‘
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no taxpayer dollars should be spent on this kind of stuff now.
I think you can get bipartisan support for that, 7! What we need right now is more logic and less party partisanship.
We have a 110 acre park that has 2 baseball fields that have been usurped by soccer fields in Ferry Point Park…
We have been working to deversify this park to be used by all sports and not exclusively soccer.
Visitors that use the greenway for bicycling, jogging, and dog walking are not comfortable amoung the Hispanic Soccer Leagues frenzy each weekend for 7 months of the year.
Many illegal vendors, gambling and drinking make it a “clicky” bunch of people that are suspiciuos of any non hispanic park users. The Hindus use of the waterfront for illegal ceremonies including animal sacrifices are reasons for unwanted visitors as well.
Lets open this beautiful piece of land that now holds the 300 sapling trees donated by the Prince of Monaco for a living 9/11 memorial Forest and the Flowering Hilltop Viewshed 9/11 grove to everyone.
Spend less money
keep the teams local
open up this park to my diversified, safer uses
It is not fair that our Park is filthy for half of the week after each weekend while the Parks Department works hard to clean up after these teams.
Why not put a rush on the comfort station that is pending and has dollars put aside from the croton dollars and then reconstruct the existing ball fields to offer the little leagues a neighborhood place to practice and play???
why do they have to come up with bus fare each game???
Why would their parents have to pay a toll and gas each game?
This is rediculous, these fields were originally an ammenity given during the construction of the Bronx State facility.
Is this where the 31 story office buiding is planned?
on filled in land that used to be Westchester Creek?
There uses to be a septic field on that Water Street location, where does that sewage go now?
Is our Westchester Creek Protected?
There is also the Horrific Mess of a “Golf Course” at Ferry Point park that must have some room for a few baseball fields for our children and grandchildren in the 220 acres that are being used as a landfill.