1/2/36 267. Announcement that the sports carnival will be held on 59th Street lake instead of. Conservatory Lake. 1/2 368. Monthly Recreation Program. 1/3 369. Henry Hudson Parkway Authority received bids today for the con* etruction of the Riverside Drive Connection with the Henry > V* 370. Hudson Parkway. · Announcement that the Winter Sports carnival will be held at 59ta Street Lake. 1/10 371. Board of Estimate has received the Dept. of Parka plans and spec- ifications and estimates of cost for the covering of N.Y.C.B.R. , tracks, continuation of Westaide Highway and park restoration of Riverside Drive. l/ll 572. Announce organization of Junior Park Protective Leagu© under super- vision of park playgrounds, ' . Page 21. BELEASS3 i/n/34 373. Announcement of postponement of winter sports carnival due to lack of ice. 1/15 374. Kindergarten for children of pre«school age will be continued in the Park Department throughout the spring and sunsaer. 1/15 ,375* Hew Schedule for the playground traveling troupe announced. 1/16 376* .Hecreation course for playground directors of the Park Depart** roent. 1/17 · 377. Forestry report of the five boroughs during year 1935, i/i? 378. Announcement of the courses given the playground directors. 1/21 379. Snow sculpture contest in the elty playgrounds announced. 1/23 380. Winter-sports carnival to be held January 26th on the 59th Street Lake. · t 2/25 381. Winter sports carnival to be held January 26th on Central Park Lake. . 1/30* 382. Vfinter sports carnival February 4th at 8*30 P.M. 2/1 383. Winter sports carnival on February 4th at 8*30 P.M. 2/6 384. First meeting of Junior Park Protective League Units. 2/10 385. Monster winter ©ports carnival at Prospect Park, Lincoln*© Birth-* day.. . . 2/11 386, Winter carnival in Brooklyn, Richmond and Bronx. 2/13 387. Greatest winter sports carnival in Central Park February 23, 1936* 2/20 388. Next meeting of Brooklyn League of Park Protectors. 2/20 , .389. Monster winter sports carnival in Central park, February 23, 1936. 2/21. 390. Winter sports carnival in Central Park, February 25rd. 2/26 391* Park Dept* issues a warning to property owners on the care of their trees. 2/27 392* Park Dept* announces that the brown bear cub will be on exhibition in the Prospect Park Zoo ©very day from 2 to 4 P.M. 2/28 393* Park protectors will meet Saturday, February 29th* ^-2/29 394. Plan for Reorganization of Park Department on a self-financing . b a s i s . {.-·»'«·· · · v~ ) 3/9 .395. First monkey to be bred and born in Central Park Zoo. Page 2 2 :· .' ' < . ^ * t . , · ; : · · · · · 3/17/3 * » 395 Agreement reached with VKPA regarding signs la parks* · ' . 3/18 39? Bugby football will be introduced for the first time in Central Park on Ivlarch 21st. . 3/19 393 Rugby football announcement that game will be held on March 21at in Central Park, 3/20 .399 Bugby football game to be shifted from Central Park to Van Cortlandt Park, 3/2? 400 opening of ten new playgrounds by Park Dept. on March £8th» 4/1 401 Monthly'program of Recreation Department. · ' 4/1 402 Announcement of sailbo,at contest for children in the various boroughs. 4/2 403 Dept. of Parks announces that applications for permits to play on the Municipal Golf courses and public Tennis Courts are in order, 4/9 404 Easter Exhibit at the Greenhouses in Brooklyn. 4/9 405 Opening of Mosholu, Clearview and Dyker Beach Golf Courses on Sunday at 6 A.M. 4/9 406 First international Rugby Football Game at "Van Cortlandt Park April 12 at 3 P.M. ' 4/14 407 Opening of golf courses, announcement of dates and courses. 4/14 408 Official opening of Park Dept. Baseball Diamonds. 4/27 409 Gracie Mansion opened for inspection on May 2nd to the public, 4/29 410 Announcement of Arbor Day Tree Planting on May 1st. 4/30 411 Announcement of portable Farmyard Exhibition in the various playgrounds on May 1st. 4/30 412 Schedule of farmyard exhibition announced. £ J^ O-V-^Q- »-o Mr I |) ' 5/4 413 OpeningjDf 13 new playgrounds by the Park Dept. 5/5/ 414 Rugby football introduced in the north Meadow in Central Park on May 9th. 5/7- 415 Park Lake model yacht end motor boat oontest in Central Park on May 9th. 5/8 416 Hurling teams will play in Van Cortlandt Park on May 10th. 5/7 417 Opening of golf courses in Bronx and Queens May 9th at 6 A.M. 5/13 418 Emsrgency truck put into service by the Park Dept. to cover every kind of ezsargency arising in parks, playgrounds or streets under Park Dept. Juris- diction. 5/18 419 Announcement of construction of bicycle paths throughout the City Park System. · ·· 5/18 420 Park Dept. will conduct the final matches of the inter-boro handball oon- tests at Houston St. Playground on Tuesday, May 19th, at 4 P.M. 5/19 421 Park Dept. will conduct final match of the City-wide marble shooting con- at City Hall Park, May 20th. " "Page 85 ' / 5/20/J ^ 422 Park Dept. invites children and grown-ups to participate in harmonical f contest to be held at Roosevelt Plygd. at 4 P.M. May 27th. ^ · 5/24 423 Yictor Herbert Festival at Central Park Mall, Sunday, May 24th, 1936 at 8:30 P.M. \ 5/23 424 Final games of the inter-boro basketball contest at Roosevelt Playground at 4:30 May 26th. ,. 5/25 '425 Final match of the inter-boro horseshoe pitching for boys and men^at Sdgecombe Avenue and 168th Street on May 27th, 1936 at 5:30 P.M. " 5/27 426 Bids received for a contract for the general grading for Flushing Meadow Park at the f i r s t step toward the development of thi^ park, site of the 1939 World's"Fair 6/2 427 Announcement of unveiling of the bust of John Wolfe Ambrose on June 3rd · at Battery Park 428 Dept. of Parks established project for the restoration of monuments in the City · · , 6/5 429 Park Dept. will conduct dances on the Mall, every Tuesday and Thursday starting June 9th. , _ ' 6/3 430 Announcement that concerts will be given by Y 434 Announcement of Portable Theatre Shows to be presented in various parks throughout the five boroughs.' 6/11 435 Folk dance contest for children on Mall, Saturday, June 13th, at 2:30 P.M. ^--.436 Opening of 7 new playgrounds Friday, June 12th. 6/15 437 Dedication of Cunningham Memorial to be held June 16th at 4:00 P.M. 6/18 438 Opening concertsof City Amateur Symphony Orchestra uncfer direction of * Judge L. Prince to be held on Mall, Central Park, June 23rd, 8:30 P.M. 6/18 439 Sunnier series of puppet and marionette shows in the various playgrounds beginning June 22nd. 6/19 440 Removal of the U.S.S. Illinois.to enable construction to go on for West Side Improvement. 6/19 441 Reserved seats for the RandalifB Island Stadium Olympic tryout for men's track and field. ^ 442 Opening of Hanilton Fish Swimming Pool Page 24 · , ' ' ;, 6/19 443 Folk dance contest for children postponed pn account of rain to June 20th. 6/22, 444 City-wide championship harmonica contests on the Mall, Central Park, June 25 8;30 P.M. 5/24 445 Opening of Hamilton Fish Pool. 6/24 446 Bids Marine Parkway Bridge across itockaway I n l e t . ' n 6/25 447 Opening of Thomas Jefferson Swimming Pool. M 6/25 448 . n 11 new playgrounds, Friday, June 26th» 6/25 449 Second annual one-act play contest for children on the Mall, June 27, 2:30 P,M. 6/30 450 Opening of model garden.in Higalantf'P-ark, July lst» fc I DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUNE 30, 1936 TEL, REGENT 4-1000 The Park Department will open a modol garden in Highland Park, Jamaica Avenue & Cleveland Streets, Queens, Wednesday, July 1 at 2 P. M. The first seeds will be planted in the 140 individual gardens by cMldren of the noightoorhood. Summer crops of sweet corn, beans, swiss chard, carrots, beets will bo sown. Those individual gardens are allotted to different child- ren at each planting. The Children's Garden adjoins the old Schenk House, which was built in 1762. This garden was reconstructed in keeping with this old colonial landmark. A 2 room gatehouse, at the entrance to the garden witfc i t s wide clapboards, stone sides, half doors and many panod windows, might well have been built by the original craftsman, who erected the old Schenk Homestead. One room is used for storing miniature spades, rakes, hoes and other juvenile im- plements; the other room serves as a mooting room and display center for items of garden interest. The garden covers about half an acre, with paved walks and bordered flower- beds. Comfortable benches are placed every ten feet for mothers and youngsters. Two dipping-wells, 18 inch deep, arc provided at each end, for the youngsters to f i l l their watering cans. Rows of Sweet Marjoram, Thyme, Sage, Mint, Rue and other old fashioned herbs aro planted on cither side of the gatehouse. Along, the Jamaica Avenue side of the garden 20 exhibition plots 6x6 feet vail be planted with crops of economic-interest, such as tobacco, cotton, wheat, rye, flax, peanuts, broom c ^ The walks of the model garden are bordered by bods of Marigolds, Petunias, Zinnias, Roses, I r i s , Bishop of Canterbury Bells and other old fashioned flowers. / This garden will be opened daily for children to enjoy. Those not having an individual garden, of which there are 140, can participate in the community activities of watering and caring for the flower-beds and at the same time enjoy an old fashioned garden within tho city limits. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUM! 2 5 , 1936 TEL; REgent 4 - 1 0 0 0 The Department of Parks announces that it will conduct the second annual One-Act Play Contest for children on the Mall, Central Park, Saturday, June 27th at 2:30 P.M. This contest i s to determine the best of the productions selected through eliminations within the respective boroughs held during the months of May and June . The contest was restricted to playground children between the ages of 10 and 14 years. The following plays w i l l be given': "The Honor of the Class", "Cabbages and Kinjs", "Peter Pan", "The Golden Goose". Commissioner Paul'Moss of the Department of Licenses, Mrs. Lionel Sutro of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and Mrs. Mary P. Harvey, Teacher of Classics of Hunter College have consented to act as judges. The plays w i l l be judged on the following points: Type, acting, costumes, suitability for the different age groups and delivery. The cast chosen as the best actors in the final contest Will receive a green f e l t banner as a playground award. In addition to the presentation of the plays, the Park Playground Children's Orchestra w i l l make i t s f i r s t appearance and play several selections. # § DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR RELEASE ARSENAL, CLMTRAL PARK JUKE 25, 1936. TEL: REGENT 4-1000 , The Department of Parks will open olovon now playgrounds Friday, June 26th, making a total of 168 playgrounds added to the re- creational system of tho Park Department since January 1934, Prior to that date there were 108 playgrounds in tho park system; twenty of which have boon completely reconstructed and modernized and twonty-nino more of which will be rebuilt before the end of the year. In addition to those rehabili- r tated areas there vri.ll be 70 more entirely nev, recreational areas which will be opened to the public before January 1, 1937. When the present program is completed there will be a total of 325 playground areas under the jurisdic- tion of the Department of Parks. Of the eleven new playgrounds, one will be in Queens, four in Brooklyn and six in Manhattan. yfn Queens tho now College Point playground from 127th to 128th Streets and from 14th Avenue to 20th Avenue not only will be fully equipped with apparatus for small children, but will have a large earth play surface rath two soft ball diamonds and five, double handball courts for oldor chil- dren or adults. · / In Brooklyn there will be two new playgrounds. The area at Sullivan Place west of Nostrand Avenue will be fully equipped with apparatus for small children and a portable shower for use during hot weather, while at Seaside Park in Coney Island there will be eight paddle tennis courts, eight horseshoe courts, ten handball courts, tv-elve shuffloboard courts and a large gravel surfaced play area, all located in the area formerly taken up by tho Dreamland Parking Field. * « - 2 - In Bushwick Parkj Irving and Knickerbocker Avenues, the old play area has been reconstructed and will be completely equipped with ap- paratus and wading pool for smaller children and also basketball, volley / (ft ball, horseshoe and handball courts for older boys./At Avenue-K, West 12th Street and Bay Parkway, the reconstructed playground will have horseshoe, basketball and volley ball courts, a play area for larger boys and a com- pletely equipped play area with wading pool for smaller children. Six of the playgrounds to be opened are in Manhattan. Four of them are marginal areas in Central Park adjacent to Central Park West at / ^ / ~S 81st, 84th, 96th and 100th Streets. These four new perimeter playgrounds for children of pre-school age make a total of fifteen marginal play areas now open in Central Park. Of the other two Manhattan playgrounds, the one located in Thomas F. Smith Park at 11th Avenue and 22nd Street under the Express Highway will have shuffloboard, horseshoe and handball courts for older children and adults, as well as kindergarten swings for small chil- dren. At Chejsea Park, 27th and 28th Streets, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, the reconstructed area will hive a largo play area with one ball field, handball courts, complete play equipment for small children .anda wading pool. END * 4 DEPARIMERT OF PARKS y / f FOR RELEASE THURSDAY ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUNE £ 5 , 1 9 3 6 TEL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 ' Mayor LaGuardia, Park Commissioner jfobert Moses and other / / officials will participate in ceremonies Saturday, June 2?th at 11:30 A.M. in connection with the official dedication of the new Thomas Jefferson Swimming Pool at First Avenue and East 111th Street, Manhattan, This is the second of ten new swimming pools being constructed by the Park Depart- ment with W.P.A. funds to be opened for use this summer. The area includes a swimming pool 100 f t . x S46 f t . , a diving pool 51 f t . x 100 f t . and a wading pool 60 f t . x 100 f t . The pools are equipped to handle 1450 persons at one time. The pool will be open from 10:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M., the s&£ as the Hamilton Fish Pool, which was opened l a s t Wednesday. Children under 14 years of age are admitted free from 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. daily except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with free group swimming and diving classes held each day at 10:00 A.M. After 1:00 P.M. children under 14 years of age will bo admitted for ten cents and a l l others for 20 cents. The f a c i l i t i e s will be operated entirely by uniformed c i v i l service Park Department employees, .'.s at the Hamilton Fish Swimming Pool, instead of the customary Ipckors and dressing; room arrangements, a basket system of checking clothes will be used permitting a greater use of dressing room f a c i l i t i e s . The swimming and diving pools11 will hold 1,P80,000 gallons of water, which will be filtered, treated with chemicals, heated to the proper temperature and completely rocirculatod by the most modern machinery every eight hours. Attractive pool shows consisting of swimming and diving ex- hibitions similar to that presented last ^odnosday at the Hamilton Fish Swimming Pool opening exorcises will bo offered periodically. During the spring, f a l l and winters seasons when the pool i s not in operation the bath house vail bo converted into a gymnasium and tho outdoor areas will be used for basketball, volley b a l l , shuffloboard, handball and other active outdoor games. During freezing weather, provision will bo made for ico skating. ft £ -H-fc DEPARTMENT1 OF PARKS I T FOR BivIEDlATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUNE 2 4 t h , 1936 REgent 4-1000 Bids were taken today at 2 P.M. Eastern Standard Time by the Marine Parkwsy iiuthority for the construction of the Marine Parkway Bridge across Rockaway Inlet. « The low bidder on the substructure was Frederick Snare Corporation, 114 Liberty Street, New York City, who sub- mitted a bid of #1,595,337.80. The low bidder on the superstructure was The American Bridge Company, 71 Broadway, New York City, who sub- mitted a bid of $2,139,311.40.· The Marine Parkway Bridge will replace the ferry now running across Rockaway Inlet between the end of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn and Jacob Riis Park in Neponsit. The bridge will be slightly over 4000 feet in length, having three 500-foot spans in the center bridging the channel,, flanked by five shorter spans on either side. The three 500-foot spans will have a clearance of 55 feet above the water at all times and the middle one will lift 95 feet to give a total clearance of 150 feet for the passage of large ships. It is expected that the bridge will be completed about August 1st, 1937. It will provide a new fast route through Brooklyn to the Rockaways as well as a new through route to the south shore of Long Island. - 2 - The Marine Parkway Bridge is an important factor in the development of Marine and Jacob Riis Parks. Jacob Riis Park at the present time is being entirely remodeled by the Department of Parks and the Marine Parkway Authority working in cooperation with each other, both organizations being headed by Commissioner Robert Moses. When the reconstruction work in Jacob Riis Park is completed, large areas of low land will have been reclaimed, a 72-acre parking field will have been provided, the beach will be greatly enlarged and will be bordered by a promenade over the entire length. Recreation facilities will be provided along the inshore side of the promenade. New road- ways to provide easy access to the parking fields and to the Rockaways will be built and the entire perk will be properly landscaped. The Marine Parkway Authority is financing theix portion of the work through a $6,000,000. bond issue which was completed last December. The bonds will be amortized by the collection of a 15$* toll on the bridge and a 25$* parking fee. DEPABTMJSNT OF PARKS · FOR RELEASE WEDNESDAY ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUNE 24TK, 1936 TEL. B3XJINT 4-1000 Mayor LaGuardia, Park Commissioner Robert Moses and Works Progress Administrator Victor Ridder participated Wednesday in ceremonies in connection with the official opening of the Hamilton Fish Swimming Pool at East Houston and Sheriff Streets, on the lower east side of Manhattan. The Hamilton Fish Pool is the first of ten new swiraning pools now under construction to be opened. They are being built by the Park Department with W.P.A. funds. This area in- cludes a swimming pool 100 ft. x 165 ft., a semi-circular pool 100 ft. wide for skilled divers and a wading pool 50 ft. x 100 ft. for small children. These three tanks accommodate 1700 people at one time. The pool is open from 10:00 A. M. to 10:30 P. M. and children under 14 years of age are admitted free from 10:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. every day except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with free group swimming and diving classes held daily at 10:00 A. M. After 1:00 P. M. children under 14 years of age are admitted for ten cents and all others for SO cents. The pool is operated entirely by uniformed civil service Park Depart- ment employees. Instead of the customary lockers and dressing room arrangements a basket system of checking clothes is used which permits a greater use of dress- ing facilities. Boys and girls, men and women may use the pool at the same time, permitting antire families to onjoy recreation together. Nino other new swimming pools are scheduled to open. At Thomas Jefferson Park, located at First Avenue and East 111th Street, Manhattan, there will be a swimming pool 100 ft. x 246 ft., a diving pool 51 ft. x 100 ft. and a wading pool 60 ft. x 100 ft. These facilities will bo opened on June 27. They will accommodate 1450 people at one time. / The Tompkinsvillo Pool at Arriotta Street and Pier 6, Sttiton Island, will accoiamodate 2800 people. The swimming pool will bo 100 ft. x 165 ft., the diving and wading pools will bo 68 ft. x 100 ft. It is scheduled to open July 2. The Astoria Pool at Hoyt and Ditmars Avenue, Quoons, formerly the site of a large earth bottom wading pool, will have a swimming pool 165 ft. x 350 ft. and semi-circular diving and wading pools 165 ft* wide. The tanks will accommodate 6670 people at one time and are scheduled to open July 2. \ . The remaining six pools are being rushed to completion as rapidly as possible for opening -fchi3 summer. In Highbridge Park, at 'Amsterdam Avenue and Wost 173 Street, Manhattan, thore will be a swiraning pool 166 ft. x 228 ft. and a pool 97 ft. x 228 ft» - :aafflodating 4880 people. 9 The Colonial Paris. Pool at Bradhurst Avenue and West ^.4? $$*©et, Manhattan, will be 93 ft. x 328 ft. and will accommodate 4090 people, At crotona park, 173 Street and Fulton Avenue, the BJ?pnx, the swimming pool will be 125 ft. x 330 ft., the wading pool 100 ft. x 100 ftf and the semi- circular diving pool 100 ft. wide. The tanks will accommodate 4265 people. In Brooklyn the pool in Red Hook, at the foot of He»ry Street on Gowanus Bay, will be 130 ft. x 350 ft. and the diving pool will be 65 ft. x 150 ft, They will accommodate 4460 people. The new swimming pool in Sunset Park at Fifth Avenue and 41 Street will be 165 ft, x 256 ft., the semi-circular diving and wading pools 165 ft. wide and will accommodate 4850 people. In McCarron Park, at Nassau Avenue and Lorimer Street, the swimming pool will be 165 ft. x 330 ft., with semi-circular diving and wading pools 165 ft. wide at either eifd. The three tanks will accornmc-- date 6800 people. The swimming pool in Betsy Head Memorial Playground, at Hopkinson and Livonia Avenues, is being reconstructed; when reoponed it will be 165 ft. x 330 ft. and will accommodate 1200 people. These pools are the most modern in the world. The swimming and diving tanks are designed and constructed for the maximum safety of bathers. The total area of all the pools is thirteen acres which, if placed between the building lines along Fifth Avenue, would extend northward from the Public library at 42nd street to Central Park at 60th Street. Their total capacity - 14,445,000 gallons - is suffi- r cient to float either the Rex or Europa or supply pities like Albany or Utica one day's supply of water. The water is filtered, treated with chemicals, heated to the proper temperature and recirculated by the most modern machinery and undergoes a complete turnover every eight hours. The pumps, piping and filters have been ar- ranged for the most convenient inspection and maintenance. The filters have been arranged so they ce.n be cleaned while the pools are in operation. All diving and swimming pools aro equipped with underwater floodlights for night use. They will bo operated entirely by uniformed civil service Park Department employees andjwill be opened to the public the same hours and at the 3ame charge as at Hamilton Fish Pool. Attractive pool shows consisting of swiaaing and diving exhibitions similar to those given at Jones Beach will be offered periodically to patrons of the pools. During the seasons the pools will not be in operation the bathhouses will be equipped as gymnasiums and the pool areas will be used for basketball, volley ball, handball, shuffleboard, etc. During freezing weather they will be flooded for ie& skating. Sad. HAMILTON FISH 3VJIIi!ING POOL Statistical Data Hamilton Fish Park and Playground, prior to i t s recon- struction, was divided into two separate areas by Willet Street. It had a hard b a l l baseball diamond, and play area with earth surface for older boys and & playground for g i r l s and small children. Toere wes also a large wading pool which was used during the spring, fall and winter seasons for rollcjr and ice skating. The building now used for dressing rooms, ticket office, etc. had public showers, men and women's comfort stations, which were inadequrts, unsanitary and the plumbing defective beyond repair. There were also men and women's gymnasiums. Surrouid.ing the building were passive recreation areas with shede trees end benches for adults. The old building hr.s been remodelled and lies on the women's side e. tiled shower room containing ten saowors, o comfort station raid lavatories. O n the ground floor room, 42 dressing cubicles have been provided. On the men's side the tiled shower room has sixteen showers and r comfort s t r t i o n . The men dress in one large room provided with double benches. loo lockers are provided for r.nd patrons' clothes ere checked cud stored in 1700 wire baskets. The park rrea h&s been redesigned and reconstructed end now contains r, swimming pool 100 f t . x 165 f t . cud a semi-circular diving pool 100 feet wide. The swimming pool holds 485,000 gallons of water ?:nd the diviag pool 375,000 gallons, making a t o t a l of 860,000 gallons of water. Fifty pounds of chlorine gr.s, seventeen pounds of ammonia gas, sixty pounds of alum sulphate and sixty pounds of soda ash ere used drily in purifying the w t e r in fiese pools, wiiich re-circulates through th'3 pumps and f i l t e r s every eight hours. The reconstructed :prrk r rea also contains a playground for girls and snail boys complotely equipped with swings, slides, see-saws, jungle gyms, c 1; rge xme cror. and a v;cding pool 50 f t . x 100 f t . Volley ball rud shuffle board courts, play apparatus and a large plcy crea where soft ball may be played is provided for lc rger boys. Park areas with shade trees and benches are provided for adults. During the spring, f a l l and winter months th.j building will be converted into a gymnasium by removing the dressing and stor- age room equipment and installing play apparatus. The pool areas will be dr.-ined rnd converted into paddle tennis, hand b a l l , volley ball and shuffle board courts. During freezing weath, r there will be ice skating. 444- DSPARTIviENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUNE 22, 1936. TEL: REGENT 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces that a city-wide champion- ship harmonica contest will take place on the Mall in Central Park Thursday, June 25th at 8:30 P. M. During the past three months elimination contests have been taking place in all boroughs and the winners of the respective boroughs will compete for the championship. Each contestant will play two musical selections. There are three age classifications competing in this con- test - under 16 years of age, 16 to 18 years and over 18 years of age. Marjorie Haug, 13 years of age, who won first place in the Borough of Richmond, representing Clove Lakes Playground, will be one of the five finalists. Marjorie is the only girl harmonica player who succeeded in reaching the final contest, and a large delegation of her loyal fol- lowers from Richmond will attend hoping that she vail win the champion- ship. Another youthful contestant to reach the finals is John Mendelsohn, 16 years of age, 923 Hoe Avenue, The Bronx, representing Lyons Square Playground. Johnny has won many cups in connection with his mouth-organ playing. In fact, each contestant has quite a reputation in his neighbor- hood. As an added attraction to the championship, five harmonica bands organized in the various boroughs by playground directors will com- pete in a band contest. Judges for the contest are Ralph Wurlitzer, President of the Wurlitzer Music Company, William Dougherty, Editor of Music Trades Mag- azine, Guiseppe Creatore, Conductor of the New York State Symphonic Band, Borrah Minnevitch, founder of the Harmonica Institute of America, and Arthur M. Abell. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUNE 19TH, 1936 Tel. REgent 4-1000 The Folk Dance Contest for children which was ter- minated last Saturday on the Mall, Central Park because of the rain, will be held at Roosevelt Playground, Chrystie and Forsythe Streets, Block 2, Saturday, June 20 at 2:30 P. M. Eliminations were held in the various playgrounds within the five boroughs for children in three age groups, viz. 10 to 12 years 12 to 14 " 14 to 16 » The final contestants will compete in folk dances of many lands to determine the best dancing group in each age classification. Two hundred children will take part. Colorful costumes have been made by the playground directors. John O'Brien, Ella Sonkin and Daniel Cranford Smith of the Folk Festival Council, will act as judges. A green and gold banner will be awarded to the best dancers in each of the three divisions. Program-is attached. CITY OF NSW YORK DEPARTMENT OF PARKS CHILDREN'S FOLK DANC2 CONTEST SARA DELANO ROOSEVELT PLAYGROUND JUKE 2 0 , 1 9 3 6 CHRYSTIE & FOESYTHS STREET ELOCK 2 2 : 3 0 P . M. PROGRAM 1. Selection Children's Park Band 2. Polish Dance Cherry & Vandervoort Ave. & McCarren Playgrounds 3. American Medley Payson Ave, & Dyckman S t . , Playground 4. Irish Lilt Clove Lakes Playground 5. Indian Dance Flushing Memorial & Jackson Heights Playground 6. Dutch Dance Mosholu Playground 7. Folk Dances Czechoslovakian Group 8. Tarantella DeMatti Playground 9. Japanese Dance Q1 Cornell Playground . 10. Highland Fling West 59th Street Playground 11. Irish Four Hand Reel Bay Parkway & Kelly Memorial Playgrounds 12. Russian Gypsy Dance Zimmerman Playground 13. Selection Children's Park Band 14. Tarantella Riverside 96th Street Playground 15. Russian Dance McDonald Playground 16. Mexican Dance Jackson Heights & Von Dohlen Playgrounds 17. Russian Dance Now Lots & Betsy Head Playgrounds 18. Japanese Dance S t . Mary's East DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUNE 1 9 t h , 1936. TEL: RSgent 4-1000 Tha Department of P a r k s announces t h a t r e s e r v e d s e a t s f o r t h e F i n a l American Olympic.Men's Track and F i e l d Tryouts t p be held at the R a n d a l l ' s Island Stadium, J u l y 11th and 1 2 t h , w i l l go on p u b l i c s a l e Monday, June 22nd, a t 10:00 A.M. at two c e n t r a l loc a t i ons» Reserved s e a t s a t 75 c e n t s , $1.00 and $2.00 may be purchased at t h e Department of P a r k s , Arsenal B u i l d i n g , Room 100, 64th S t r e o t and F i f t h Avonuo, and a t t h e o f f i c e of t h e Olympic Committee, ?Joolworth B u i l d i n g , 233 Broadv/ay, 22nd floor.. F i n a l s a r e scheduled t o b e h e l d a t the Stadium on b o t h days. # ML 440 DEPARTMENT OF PARKEM A RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PART , -->, ^KJRSDAY, JUNE 18TH T e l . REgent 4 - 1 0 0 0 On Friday, June 19, after almost a year of negotiations, the U. S. S. "Illinois" (armory of the First Battalion Naval Militia) will be towed "by the George W. Rogers Construction Company from West 96th Street and the Hudson River, to the bulkhead at the foot of West 135th Street and the Hudson River. This change in location is essential in order that contract work, based on plans prepared by the De- partment of Parks, can proceed on the West Side Improve- ment. The work involves the covering of the railroad tracks and the further extension of the West Side Parkway northward through Riverside Park. After removal of the U. S. S. "Illinois", the Park Department will continue the erection of the stone seawall on the bulkhead line, which has been extended fifty feet into the river by the War Department's per- mission. When this fifty foot strip has been filled in from 72nd to 129th Streets, a distance of slightly over three miles, twenty acres of land will have been added to Riverside Park. N D +39 DEPARIMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AR3MAL BUILDING June 18, 1936 REGENT 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces that the summer series of puppet and marionette shows will be presented out of doors in various playgrounds in New York City, beginning June 22nd at Gulick Playgretmd, Columbia, Delancey and Sheriff Streets, Manhattan and McKibben Playground, McKibben and White Streets, Brooklyn and on June 23rd at McDonald Playground, Forest Avenue and Broadway to W. Brighton Street, Richmond. Among the shows that -will travel to these play areas through- out the suE.ser are such old favorites as "Robinson Crusoe," "Oliver Twist," "Treasure Island," and also original fabrications such as "The Birthday Party," "The Brass Trumpet" and "Snee Zee." Last year over 350 puppet and marionette shows were given in the playgrounds of Greater New York. They were a source of delightful entertainment to thousands of children and their parents. It is expected that more locations will be covered this year. At- tached is the itinerary for Manhattan, Brooklyn and Richmond. ## # ## MAN K A T T A N S C H E D U L E " O L I V E R T W I S T" PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS 6-22-36 Gulick Playground, Columbia, Delancey, Broomo & Sheriff Streets .4.00 P.M. 6-23-36 Roosevelt Tlayground, Canal and Houston Streets 4:00 P.M. 6-24-36 Coleman Playground, Cherry and Market Streets 4:00 P.M. 6-25-36 I. S. No. 83, Roosevelt, Rutgers and Henry Streets 4:00 P.M. 6-26-36 Ccrloor's Hook Playground, South Cherry, Jackson & Corlears Sts..4:00 P.M. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * · * * * * * * * * 6-29-36 Cherry Playground, Monroe and Gouveraeur Streets 4:00 P.M. 6-30-36 Columbus Playground, Baxter and Worth Streets 4:00 P.M. 7- 1-36 Scward Playground , Canal and Jefferson Streets 4:00 P.M. 7- 2-36 Sauer Playground, East 12th Street near Avenue "CM ..4:00 P.M. 7- 3-36 J. J. Murphy Playground, East 17th Street, East River & Ave. "C".4:00 P.M. ******* ******** ******** 7- 6-36 East 28th Street Playground - Near Third Avenue 4:00 P.M. 7- 7-36 St. Catherine's Playground, 67th Street & First Avenue 4:00 P.M. 1- 8-36 John Jay Playground, 76th Street & Cherokee Place 4:00 P .M. 7- 9-36 Carl Schurz Playground, 84th Street & East End Avenue 4:00 P.M. 7-10-36 Sutro I layground, 93rd Street and Central Park West 4:00 P.M. ******* ******** ******** 7-13-36 Yorkville Playground, 101st Street and Second Avenue 4:00 P.M. 7-14-36 Morningside Playground, 123rd Street and Morningside Avenue .....4:00 P.M. 7-15-36 McCray Playground, 138 Street bet. Fifth and Lenox Avenue 4:00 P.M. 7-16-36 St.Nicholas Terrace Playground, 129th St. and St. Nicholas Terr..4:00 P.M. 7-17-36 Annunciation Playground, 135th Street and iixsterdsm Avenue 4:00 P.M. ******** BROOKLYN SCHEDULE "THE BRASS TRUMPET" UNIT I I I - H PiiRKS & PLAYGROUNDS 6-22-36 McKibben P l a y g r o u n d , McKibbon & TShite S t r e e t s 4 : 0 0 P.M. 6-23-36 Bushwick P l a y g r o u n d , Knickerbocker Avenue & S t a r r S t r e e t . . . . 4 : 0 0 P.M. 6-24-36 Tompkins Playground, Tonipkins & L a f a y e t t e Avenues 4:00 P.M. 6-25-36 New L o t s P l a y g r o u n d , R i v e r d a l e Avenue &, Sackman S t r e e t 4:00 P.M. 6-26-36 Betsy Head Playground, Hopkinson & Dumont Avenues 4:00 P.M. ******** 6-29-36 Leiv Erickson P l a y g r o u n d , 5th Avenue & 67th S t r e e t 4:00 P.M. 6-30-36 Sunset P l a y g r o u n d , 6th Avenue & 4 4 t h S t r e e t 4 : 0 0 P.M. 7- 1-36 Red Hook P l a y g r o u n d , Richard & P i o n e e r S t r e e t s . 4 : 0 0 P.M. 7- 2-36 Cowcnus Playground, Third S t r e e t & F o u r t h Avenue . . . . . 4 : 0 0 P.M. 7- 3-36 City Playground, F l u s h i n g Avenue & Navy S t r e e t . 4 : 0 0 P.M. ******** 7- 6-36 K e l l y Memorial P l a y g r o u n d , Avenue " S " and E a s t 14th S t r e e t . . 4 : 0 0 P.M. 7- 7-36 Dyker Beach P l a y g r o u n d , 86th S t r e e t & 14th Avenue 4:00 P.M. 7- 8-36 C a r r o l l Playground, C a r r o l l & Smith S t r e e t s 4 : 0 0 P.M. 7- 9-36 Lindsay I l a y g r o u n d , Johnson Avenue & Lorimor S t r e e t s . . . 4 : 0 0 P.M. 7-10-36 McKinley P l a y g r o u n d , 7th Avenue & Bayridge Parkway 4 : 0 0 P.M. ******** 7-13-36 Gravesend I l a y g r o u n d , 18th Avenue & 56th S t r e e t 4:00 P.M. 7-14-36 Unnamed Bay Parkway P l a y g r o u n d , Ocean Parkway t o Gravesend :.·>· A v e . . . 4 : 0 0 P.M. 7-15-36 D r i e r Off ersian, Cropsoy Avenue & 27th Avenu© 4:00 P.M. 7-16-36 McLaughlin Playground, Jay & T i l l o r y S t r e e t s . 4 : 0 0 P .M. 7-17-36 Sheridan I l a y g r o u n d , 80-100 Grand S t r e e t 4:00 P.M. ******** RICHMOND, S. I. SCHEDULE "ROBINSON CRUSOE" PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS 6-23-36 McDonald Playground, F o r e s t Ave. & Broadway,W.Brighton,S.I 4 : 0 0 P.M. 6-24-36 Model Playground, J e w e t t & Cast l e t on Avenues 4:00 P.M. 6-25-36 Faber Playground, Richmond T e r r a c e & Faber St 4:00 P.M. P o r t Richmond, S. I . 6-26-36 Rosebank P l a y g r o u n d , V i r g i n i a Avenue and Bay S t r e e t 4:00 P.M. Rosebank, S . I . ******* **************** ******** 6-30w36 De M a t t i Playground, Tompkins Avenue, Rosebank, S. 1 4:00 P.M. 7-1-36 S t a p l e t o n Playground, Grove S t r e e t & Gordon Avenue, S . I 4:00 P.M. 7-E-36 . Ricttmond Playground, Arthur K i l l & Richmond Road, 4:00 P.M. Richmond, S. I . 7-3-36 Clove Lake Playground, Slossen Avenue & Victory Blvd 4:00 P.M. Brighton, S. I. ********************** 458 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL BUILDING JUNE 1 8 , 1936 TEL: REgent 4-1000 The opening c o n c e r t of t h e "Cicy Amateur Symphony O r c h e s t r a " under t h e d i r e c t i o n of Judgo Leopold P r i n c o w i l l be h e l d on t h e Mall, ?2nd S t r e e t and C e n t r a l P a r k , Tuesday June 23rd, a t 8:30 P.M. This o r c h e s t r a was formerly known a s t h e "Symphonic Ensemble". I t comprises one hundred m u s i c i a n s , b o t h men and women. The s e r i e s h a s been extended t h i s year to include t e n c o n c e r t s . Five of the s e r i e s , with t h e exception of t h e opening c o n c e r t , will bo presented Saturday evenings on the Mall, C e n t r a l Park and five c o n c e r t s Sunday afternoons a t the Music G-rovo, Prospect Park. Following i s tho s c h e d u l e : ON TEE MALL PROSPBCT PARK CENTRAL PARK BROOKLYN June 23 8;30 P . M. June 2 8 3:00 P.M. June 27 8:30 P . M. July 5 3:00 P.M. July 11 8:30 P. M. July 12 3:00 P.M. July 18 8:30 P. M. July 19 3:00 P.M. July 25 8:30 P. H. July 26 3:00 P.M. Judge Prince has chosen for his concerts this season a well balanced array of musical soleetions, which include scores of both the old and the now masters. The following is the program for the opening concertjon tho Mall, June 23rd. f >' PROGRAMME ON THE MALL -- JUNE 2 3 , 1 9 3 6 . Wobor. Freischutz Overture Schubert. Unfinished Symphony a - Allegretto modorato b - Andanta con moto Moussorgsky Two Pieces l_Entr'acte from Khovantchina 2-Gopak Grieg ,, Peer Gynt Suite #1 a - Morning Mood b - Death of Ase c - Anitra's Dance d - In the Hall of the Mountain King Sarasate Zigeunerwoisen (Mr. William Kymanson, violinist) Lecuona Spanish Suite 1 - Andulucia 2 - Malaguona Strauss Waltz: Voices of Spring DEPARTMENT OF PARKS m FOR IMMEDIATE; R:ISASS 437 ARSStTAL, CENTRAL PARK Tel. REgont 4-1000 1 JUHE 15TH, 1956 The Department of Parks announced today that the dedication of the new Cunningham Memorial will be held June 16 at 4:00 P.M. This Memorial, located in Hillside Park on the Grand Central Parkway, was constructed by the Long Island State Park Com- mission from a design furnished by the City Park Department. The Memorial consists of a flagpole, set in an ornamental bronze and stone base, and placed in a formally landscaped area in front of the restaurant building on the north side of the park- ing field in Hillside Park. The l a t e Major W. Arthur Cunningham was Comptroller of the City of Now York from January 1, 1934, to May 5 of the same year. The unveiling of the Memorial plaque will be attended by a formal m i l i - tary r i t u a l , with field music furnished by the Band of the 165th In- fantry (old 69th) Wow York, Major Cunningham's old regiment. Speakers at the ceremony will be Mayor LaGuardia, Comptroller Frank J . Taylor, Park Commissioner Robert Moses, Borough President Ingorsoll of .Brooklyn" and Borough President Harvey of Queens. The Department of Parks i s inviting the r e l a t i v e s , friends and former associates of the deceased Comptroller to be present at t he c er omoni es. If if ff if if ir fr if if if V · DEPARTMENT OF PARKS / , j FOR RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL ?AJ£ ' / / />7/) ^ June 1 2 , 1936 TEL, RSgent 4-1000 The Department of Parks will op'en seven new playgrounds Friday June 12, This will make a total of 157 playgrounds added to the recrea- tional system of the park Department since January 1934. Prior to that date there were 108 playgrounds in the park system, seventeen of which have been completely reconstructed and modernized and thirty-two more will be rebuilt before the end of the year. In addition to these r e - habilitated areas there will be 78 entirely new recreational areas which will be opened to the public before January 1, 1937. When the present program i s completed, there will be a total of 325 playground areas under the .jurisdiction of the Department of Parks. In Manhattan a completely equipped small children's playground v will be located on park Avenue between 121st ard 124th Streets, and the new playground at Lexington Avenue and 106th Street will have horseshoe pitching courts as well as an open play area for adult children. In Brooklyn two reconstructed areas will be opened, one in Canarste park, Soaview Avenue and East 92nd Street, fully equipped with play apparatus for young and older children, ant the other in McLaughlin playground, Cathedral and Jay Streets, where the g i r l ' s playground will be fully equipped with play apparatus, basketball, volley ball and paddle tennis courts,. In Q.ueeIls there will be two new and one rsconstructed playgrounds. - S" The new playground at 149th Street and 15th Avenue v/ill be fully equipped with play apparatus for small children and also provide basketball, volley ball and horseshoe pitching courts for older children. The other new play- ground in Crocheron Park at 34th Avenue and 214th Place will have a large central grass panel surrounded by play apparatus for small children. The 1 6 ft r e c o n s t r u c t e d a r e a a t Myrtle Avenue and 80th S t r e e t , F o r e s t P a r k , w i l l c o n t a i n a wading p o o l , complete equipment for s m a l l c h i l d r e n and a p l a y a r e a with a soft b a l l diamond and h End o r s e s h o e p i t c h i n g c o u r t s f o r boys* DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUNE 11TH, 1936 TEL. REgent 4-1OOO The Department of P a r k s announces t h a t i t w i l l p r e s e n t f o r t h e f i r s t t i m e a "Folk Dance Contest" f o r c h i l d r e n , which w i l l be held on t h e M a l l , C e n t r a l P a r k , S a t u r d a y , June 1 3 t h , a t 2:30 P . M. Eliminations were held in various playgrounds within the five boroughs for children in three age groups, namely:- 10 to 12 years 12 to 14 years 14 to 16 years The final contestants will compete in folk dances of many lands to determine the best dancing group in each age classification. Color- ful costumes have been made by the playground directors. John O'Brien and Ella G. Sonkin of the Folk Festival Council will act as judges. A green and gold banner will be awarded to the best dancers in each of the three divisions. Program i s below: 1. Selection Children's Park Band 2. Polish Dance Cherry & Vandervoort Ave. Plgd. & McCarren Plgd. 3. American Medley Payson Ave. & Dyckman St. Plgd. 4. I r i s h Lilt Clove Lakes Plgd. 5. Indian Dance Flushing Memorial & Jackson Heights* Plgd. 6. Dutch Dance Mosholu Plgd. 7. Folk Dance Chechoslovakian Group 8. Tarantella De Matti Plgd. 9. Japanese Dance 0'Connell Plgd. 10. Highland Fling W=st 59th Street Plgd. 11. I r i s h Four Hand Reel Bay Parkway & Kelly Memorial Plgds. 12. Russian Gypsy Dance Zirmierman Plgd. 13. Selection Children's Park Band 14. Tarantella Riverside 96th Street Plgd. 15. Russian Dance McDonald Plgd. 16. Mexican Dance Jackson Heights & Von Dohlan Plgds. 17. Russian Dance New Lots & Betsy Head Plgds. 18. Japanese Dance St. Mary's East -f-3-f * DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ^ ' FOR IMMEDIATE RELHASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUNE 11th, 1936. TSL. REgent 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces t h a t ths P o r t a b l e Theatre Shows w i l l b e presented a s a weekly f e a t u r e i n t h e following p a r k s w i t h i n the f i v e boroughs. Manhattan Fridays Washington Square Park Saturdays Roosevelt Park Brooklyn Tuesdays Owl's Head Park Wednesdays Gravesend Park Fridays Prospect Park Queens Mondays Forest Park Tuesdays King Park Saturdays Astoria Park Bronx Mondays St. Mary's East Tuesdays Crotona Park Thursdays Franz Siegel Park Richmond Tuesdays Silver Lake Park The play season in the parks will o f f i c i a l l y open Tuesday, June 16th, a t 8:30 P. M. with the following performances; Tues. June 16th "The Barker" · King Park - Queens " "The Conjure Man Dies" Crotona park - Bronx " "The Emperor's New Clothes" Silver Lake Park - Richmond " "The Comedy of Errors" Owl's Head Park - Brooklyn The shows w i l l c'ontinue to play in the respective boroughs for one week, touring from one borough to another u n t i l the completion of the cycle. The Portable Theatre Shows have been presented i n the Parks for the past two years with great success. Last y e a r ' s attendance for the e n t i r e summer was recorded a s 1,999,075 persons. A variety of plays will be offered t h i s year ranging from tragedy to light operettas. Several Gilbert & Sullivan producti ons, which were very popular l a s t year, will be repeated. All p l a y s are presented by the Draim Department of the Works Progress Administration. # H33 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR RELEASE FRIDAY ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JUKI 12TH, 1936. T e l . - R e g e n t 4-1000 S a t u r d a y , June 1 3 , Jacob R i i s Park w i l l be opened t o t h e p u b l i c f o r t h e 1936 s e a s o n . S e v e r a l major changes i n t h e development of t h i s park have been completed or a r e under c o n s t r u c t i o n . The beach w i l l be i n - creased from an a r e a of 8 a c r e s a t high t i d e t o an a r e a of 2 4 . 2 a c r e s by t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n of a new s e a w a l l which curves back i n t o t h e park 500 f e e t on t h e w e s t e r l y h a l f of t h e beach. Along t h e t o p of t h e new sea w a l l i s a 44-foot promenade which, when completed, w i l l be con- t i n u o u s a c r o s s t h e whole ocean f r o n t of t h e p a r k . The o l d dusty c i n d e r p a r k i n g s p a c e , most of which has been e l i m i n a t e d by t h e widening of t h e beach, w i l l be r e p l a c e d by a new c o n c r e t e p a r k i n g a r e a t o t h e n o r t h of t h e b a t h h o u s e . When completed, t h i s new f i e l d w i l l accommodate 13,600 automobiles a s compared w i t h a capacity of 3,800 cars in the old field. When the park i s opened much of this work will be going on and will continue through most of the summer. All of the new beach area south of the present roadway has been completed and is ready for use. During the summer the road west of the bathhouse will be diverted to the north and the balance of the new beach will then bo completed. The promenade along the back of the beach will not be ready for use u n t i l later in the season and, although the available parking space at present i s somewhat smaller than the old area, i t s size i s increasing daily at the rate of one-third of an aero. J -t - 2- DEPARTMENT OF PARES FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK Tel, Regent 4-1000 Although construction will be going on in the park during the summer the bathhouse, parking field, and beach will not be affected and there will be no serious interference with the public on account of construction operations. The construction of the sea wall, promenade, and concrete surface of the parking field is all being done with relief labor. The clean white sand used to enlarge the beach and fill the parking area is being pumped from the bottom of Jamaica Bay under a contract let by the Marine Parkway Authority. June 24 the Authority will take bids for the construction of a bridge across Rockaway Inlet from the foot of Flatbush Avenue to Jacob Riis Park. Li' FCB IMMEDIATE SSUMS* AHSEKAL, CHTCRitt. PARK JUKI 11TH 1936 TEL: RT"GKNT 4-1000 Recently Congress passed an appropriation of $129,000,000* t o be spent through the Sar Department ?o~ t h e iKprovemtffit of r i v e r s and harbors and Tel. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 ~f 0 JP FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A p r i l 2t 1936 The Department of Parks announces that applications for permits t& play the Municipal Golf Courses and to use the Public Tennis Courts will be received at the following offices: The Bronx - Zbrowski Mansion, Claremont Park Brooklyn - Litchfield Mansion, Prospect Park Manhattan - The Arsenal, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street, Central Park Queens - The Overlook* Forest Park, Kew Gardens, L.I., N.Y. Richmond - Olove Lakes Parkj Victory Blvd. and Clove Road, S.I., N.Y. Permits will be issued as follows: GOLF: Season Permit - $10,00 - Good for any day that course i s opened to play. Limited Season Permit - $5.00 - Good for play Monday to Friday inclu- sive, excepting holidays. Junior Permit - $3.00 - Issued to players up to and including 16 years of age. Good for play week days, Monday to Friday, inclusive, excepting holidays. Daily Fee - Monday to Friday, inclusive, excepting holidays - $.75 Saturday, Sunday and holidays - $1.00 Season Locker - $5.00 Daily Locker - $0.25 Permit holders may reserve starting time for SaturdayV Sunday and h o l i - days during the calendar week prior to the day of play. Reservations for foursomes only may be made by personal application or by telephoning the Borough Park Department office in which the course is located. The name of each player in the foursome w i l l be required, Reservations are limited to one-fourth of actual play. Fee for reservations w i l l be $1.00 a foursome. Courses under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks are: Bronx:' Van Cortlandt, Mosholu, Split Rock, Pelham Brooklyn: Dyker Beach Queens: Clearview, Kissena, Forest Park . i Richmond: Silver Lake, La Tourette Applicants are required to submit with application, a photograph of themselves, size 1 3/4" x 1 3/4". DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK Tel. REGENT 4-1000 April 2, 1936 Page 2. Permits w i l l be issued as follows: TENNIS: Season Permit - Adult i|3.00 Junior (under 17 y e a r s ) . . 1.00 Season Locker Permit 2,00 Daily Locker Permit (for one day only). . . .25 Courts may be used for a period not exceeding ONE hour. Applicants are required to submit with application, a photograph of themselves, size 1 1/2" x 1 1/2". Tennis courts under t h e j u r i s d i c t i o n of the Department of Parks a r e : Borough of The Bronx: Bronx Park, Crotona, Macombs Dam, ivlacombs Extension, S t . James, S t . Mary's East, Van Cortlandt, Woodlawn. Borough of Brooklyn: Betsy Head, canarsie, Fort Greene, Gravesend, Kelly Memorial, Liev Eiriksson, Lincoln Terrace, McKinley, Prospect Park Borough of Manhattan; Central Park, Fort Washington Park a t Riverside Drive & W. 173rd S t . Borough of Queens: Anawanda, Forest Park, Flushing Memorial, Howard Beach, S t . Albans Memorial, Kissena, Highland, Wayanda, and a t 30th Avenue and 48th S t . , Astoria. Borough of Richmond: Walker Park, Silver Lake Park ^-DEPARTMENT OF PARES u f-< - > Telephone: Regent 4- The Department of Parks announces that it will conduct a sail boat contest for children who have not reached their sixteenth birthday in all boroughs, in accordance with the following schedule: Borough Eliminations; Brooklyn - prospect Park, Saturday April 25th at 2:30 P. M. Cueens - Kissena Park, Saturday April 25th at 2:30 P. M. Richmond - Martlings Pond, Clove Lake, April 25th at 2;30 P. M. Bronx - Macombs Dam, Wading Pool, April 26th at 2;30 P. M. Manhattan- Conservatory Lake, Central Park, May 2nd at 2:30 P. M. Final Contest Conservatory Lake - May 9th at 2:30 P. M. (In the event of rain, May 10th. · CLASSES Sail Boats: 1. Boats from 12 to 18 inches 4. Boats from 26 to 30 inches 2. Boats from 18 to 22 inches 5. Boats from 30 to 36 inches 3. Boats from 22 to 26 inches 6. Constructed models to 30 inches Motor Boats - . 1. Electric and spring-powered boats. 2. steam and gasoline driven boats. Arrangements have been made with the French Line to permit winners of this contest, as well as winners of the Park Department contest in 1935, to inspect the S.S. NORMANDIE May 12th. A Puppet and Marionette show aboard the N0RMANDI3 will also be given for the entertainment of the winners, who will be accompanied by their parents. Light refreshments aboard ship will be served. Winners of the final sail boat contest will be awarded Park Depart- ment medals. E*ight 10-inch models of the N0RMANDIE will be awarded the champions of the, respective classes by Captain Rene Pugnet, who will inspect the winning boats aboard the N0RMANDIE. Entries can be forwarded to the Park Department Borough offices as follows: Bronx: zbrowski Mansion, East 173rd Street & Claremont Parkway, Claremont : Park, Bronx, N. Y. _ Brooklyn: Litchfield Mansion, Prospect Park West and 5th Street, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. Manhattan: The Arsenal, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street, Central Park, New York, N.Y. Queens: The Overlook, union Turnpike and Park Lane, Forest Park, Kew Gardens, L.I., N.Y. Richmond: Clove Lakes Park, Victory Blvd. and Clove Road, Staten Island, N. Y. r :·.«*· MONTHLY PROGRAM RECREATION DEPARTMENT · APRIL, 1936 DEPARTMEM1 OF PARKS, NEW YORK CITY CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF PARKS BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN ACTIVITIES Baseball Inwood P a r k Dewitt Clinton J a s p e r Oval Hudson N o r t h Meadow Corlears Hook C e n t r a l P a r k Lawn P l a y g r o u n d Queensboro Oval Horseshoe Pitching Highbridge & 168th St. 10:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. Daily North Meadow it it it 175th St. - East of Amsterdam Ave. Basketball Tournament - Boys 16 years and under J. Hood Wright April 1 4:00 P.M. Hamilton P i . tt 1 tt W. 59th St. H 1 ii Roosevelt « 1 it Gulick II 1 it « Seward II 1 York & 67th S t . tt n 1 Yorkville If n 1 Hamilton P i . It 3 Roosevelt It 3 Gulick tl 3 York & 67th St. If 3 Roosevelt 11 6 York & 67th St. ft 6 Roosevelt It 9 Handball Tournament - Boys up to 16; 16-21; over 21 Cor 1 ear April 4 3:00 P.M. Gulick 4 it It n E. 6 7th S t . 4 tt ti E. Houston & 1st 4 n Hudson It 4 ti W. 59th St. II 4 it Jasper It 4 n J. Hood Wright w 4 n Corlear It 11 tt ti E. Houston 11 n W. 59th St. It 11 it Jasper tt 11 n Corlear It 18 Jasper tt 18 Houston & 1st It 25 Borough of Manhattan ACTIVITIES Roller Hockey Central Park-Center Drive April 1 4:00 P.M. Roosevelt " 4 3:00 P.M. Rugby Contest Central Park-North Meadow April 4 NY Rugby Club vs Princeton 1:00-5 P.M. «' ft tt M " 25 Pilgrims vs L.I.University" " Gymnasiums - 3:00 to 6:00 P.M. for neighborhood children 6:00 to 10:00 P.M. for groups and clubs by T>ermit West 134th S t . John Jay West 59th S t . East 54th St. West 28th S t . Rutgers St. Carmine St. Cherry & Oliver S t s . Mothers' Clubs Carmansville April 30 - 8 P.M, St. Nicholas & 140tU St. Thursdays - 8 P.M. Sauer Tuesdays 1 - 3 P. M. W. 134th S t . Gym. !Riesdays 7 P.M. Me Cray Mondays 8 P. M. Morningside & 123rd S t . Every second Roosevelt Fridays 8 - 9 P. Wednesday 1-3 P.M. Harmonica Band McCray Mondays 4-5 P.M. Gulick Thursdays 4 5 P.M. tt Roosevelt Tuesdays Carmansville Fridays Yorkvilie Wednesdays John Jay Saturdays alee Club & Folk Dancing - Children Carmansville Mondays 3:30 P.M. West 17th S t . Thursdays 3:30 P.M. Roosevelt Fridays 3:30 P.M. Glee Club - Adult Group Carmine S t . Gym. April 1, 15, 29 10:00 A.M. Junior Park P r o t e c t i v e League Highbridge 189th S t . April 11 and 26 2:30 P.M. Carl Schurz tt 11 " 26 2:30 P.M. Colonial tt 11 " 26 2:30 P.M. 96th S t . & Riverside tt 11 " 26 2:30 P.M. Fort Tryon tt 11 " 26 2:30 P.M. Morningside & 12Srd St. tt 11 " 26 2:30 P.M. Oorlears Hook tt 11 26 2:30 P.M. DeWitt tt 26 2:30 P.M. J. Hood Wright tt 11 26 2:30 P.M. Central Park Unit at Heckscher Foundation 11 26 2:30 P.M. Borough of Manhattan ACTIVITIES Traveling Troupe - "Jiggs & Anna" Momingside & 123rd St. April 18 3:00 P.M. Lewis & Rivington " 22 4:00 P.M. Gulick ". 25 3:00 P.M. Puppet-Making Class Payson Ave. Wedne sdays 3:00 P.I Puppet Show - "The Brass Trumpet" W. 28th St. Gym. April 20 - 4:00 P.M. W. 59th St. Gym. Apr. 27 - 4:00 M Carmine St. Gym. " 21 - " W. 17th St. Gym. " 28 tt Rutgers St. Gym. " 22 - " Roosevelt Plgd. " 29 tt E. 54th St. Gym. " 23 - " 83 Roosevelt St. " 30 n John Jay Gym. " 24 - " Special Meeting Grant's Tomb April 26 Union Veterans 2:30 P.M. Bicycle Dress Parade Central Park - Center Drive Anril 11 10:0C A.M. Egg-Rolling Contest & East Egg Hunt Central Park - Sheep Meadow April 12 2:30 P.M. Dancing Carmine St. Gym. Fridays 7:30 - 9:30 P. M. THE CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF PARKS BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN ACTIVITIES Kindergarten Classes - 10:00 A.M. to 12 Noon Daily Betsy Head Heckscher McKinley Bay Parkway Fulton-Classon New Lots Drier-Offerman Kelly Memorial Sheridan G-owanus Lindsay Schermerhorn Gravesend Taaffe Place Dancing Classes Dreier-Offerman Mondays 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. McKinley Mondays 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. Schennerhorn Mondays and Fridays 3:30 - 4:30 P.M. Betsy Head Tuesdays 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. New Lots Tuesdays 4:00 - 5tOO P.M. Sheridan Tuesdays 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. Bushwick Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. Kelly Memorial Thursdays 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. Lindsay Thursdays 4:00 - 5:00 P.M. Amateur Hour Fulton-Classon Thursdays 3:30 - 5:00 P.M. Taaffe Place Thursdays 3:30 - 5:00 P.M. Dreier-Offerman Fridays 4:00 - 5;00 P.M. New Lots Fridays 3;30 - 5:00 F.M. Lindsay Fridays 3:30 - 5:00 P.M. Betsy Head Saturdays 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M McKinley Saturdays 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M Heckscher Saturdays 2:00 - 3:00 P.M. Sheridan Saturdays 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M Greenpoint Saturdays 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M Junior Park Protective League - Boys and Girls between the ages of 12 and 16. Bay Parkway and Avenue P. April 4 and 18 2:30 P.M. Bedford Ave. & Avenue X " 4 " 18 2:30 P.M. Betsy Head " 3 " 17 4:00 P.M. Bushwick Park " 4 " 18 2:30 P.M. Bushwick Playground " 4 " 18 2:30 P.M. Carroll Park " 4 " , 18 2:30 P.M. Cooper Park " 4 " 18 2:30 P.M. Douglas & Third Avenue " 4 " 18 2:30 P.M. Dre i er-Offerman " 4 " 18 2:30 P.M. Dyker Beach " 4 " 18 2:30 P.M. Eleventh St. & Second Ave, " 4 n 18 2;30 P.M. Fifty-sixth St. & Second Ave. " 4 " 18 2:30 P.M. Gowanus - 3rd St. & 4th Ave, " 4 " 18 2:30 P.M. BOROUGH of BROOKLYN ACTIVITIES Junior Park Protective League (Contd.) Gravesend April 4 and 18 2:30 P.M. Greenpoint 4 18 Kelly Memorial 4 tt 18 Leiv Eiriksson 4 " 18 Lincoln Terrace 4 it 18 McCarren 4 it 18 McKinley 4 tt 18 New Utrecht & 70th St. 4 it 18 Nostrand & Montgomery 4 »» 18 Ocean Parkway & Avenue P. 4 it 18 Picnic House, Prospect Park 4 " 18 Prospect & Greenwood 4 it 18 Riverdale & Snediker 4 tt 18 Schermerhon St. & 3rd Ave. 4 ii 18 Stillwell Ave. & Avenue U. 4 it 18 Sunset Park 4 it 18 Clubs Gravesend Nature Study Mondays 3:30 P.M. McLaughlin Apparatus Mondays 3:00 - 4:00 P.M Bushwick Junior Police Wednesdays 3:30 P.M. Taaffe Place Stamp Club Wednesdays 3:30 P.M. Dyker Thursdays 3:30 P.M. Gowanus Mothers Thursdays 3:00 P.M. Fulton-Classon Choral Fridays 3:30 P.M. Cooper Saturdays 3;00 P.M. Dreier-Offerman Saturdays 3:00 P.M. Schennerhorn Saturdays 4:00 P.M. Gowanus Girls' Scout Meeting Saturdays 2:30 P.M. Gravesend Soap Sculpture Saturdays 2:00 P.M. Nostrand & Montgomery Nature Sundays 3:30 P.M. Hand Ball Contest - Boys not over 16 years of age. Borough Semi-Finals Sheridan Playground April 21 Eastern Division vs Southern Division 4 P,I Gowanus " 21 Western Division vs Northern Division 4 P.I Borough Finals Gowanus Playground April 25 2i00 P.M. Marble Shooting Contest Boys and Girls - 12 yrs. and under Borough Finals McLaughlin Park April 25 2:30 P.M. BOROUGH of BROOKLYN ACTIVITIES Horseshoe Contest - Young Men over 16 years of age. Gowanus April 30 4:00 P.M. Puppet Show - "The Brass Trumpet" McLaughlin Playground April 3 4:00 P.M. Red Hook " " 6 4:00 P.M. Sheridan " " 7 4:00 P.M. Kelly Memorial" " 8 4:00 P.M. Gravesend " " 9 4:00 P.M. w Dreier-Offerman Playground 13 4:00 P.M. New Lots " "14 4:00 P.M. Gowanus " " 15 4:00 P.M. Lindsay " "16 4:00 P.M. Classon-Fulton" " 17 4:00 P.M. One-Act Play Sheridan "The Three Wishes" 4pril 18 2:30 P.M. Gowanus " tt tt tt 25 2:30 P.M. Traveling Troupe - "Jiggs & Anna" Bushwick April 4 3:00 P.M. McKibben " 8 4:00 P.M. New Lots " 11 3:00 P.M. Childrens' Band Gowanus Saturdays 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 M Harmonica Band Betsy Head Practice Daily 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. Hopkinson & Dean tt tt 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. HecksCher tt tt 4:00 - 7:00 P.M. Riverdale & Snediker Sundays 3:00 P.M. New Lots tt 3:00 P.M. Singing - Southern Spirituals Fulton-Classon Fridays 3:30 P.M. Social Dancing Prospect Park (Picnic House) Tuesdays 8 :00 - 10:30 P, Gotham Dance Orchestra « tt it " Thursdays 8:00 - 10:30 P,·LI. Knickerbocker Dancing Orchestra DEPARTMENT OF PARKS BOROUGH OF BRONX D i v i s i o n of R e c r e a t i o n ACTIVITIES K i n d e r g a r t e n Classes - 10 A.M. to 12 Noon. Mullaly St. Mary's E. Lyons Square Ciccarone 141st Street S t . Mary's W. Crotona West Zimmerman Mosholu Fort #4 Dancing Classes Lyons Square Mondays 4 - 5 P. M. St. Mary's E. Mondays 4- 5 P. M. Mosholu Tues.& Thurs. 4 - 5 P. M. 141st Street Wednesdays 4 - 5 P. M. Fart #4 Thursdays 4 - 5 P. M. Mullaly Fridays 6 - 7 P. M. CLUBS S e n i o r Boys Zimmerman Tuesdays 8:00 P.M. Lyons Square Tuesdays 8:00 P.M. Mosholu Fridays 8:00 P.M. Mullaly Fridays 8:00 P.M. S t . Mary1 s East Fridays 7:00 P.M. Crotona West Saturdays 1:00 P.M. Senior Girls Mosholu Mondays 5:00 P.M. Mosholu Tuesdays 8:00 P.M. Mullaly Tuesdays 4:00 P.M. Crotona West Thursdays 4:00 P.M. Zimmerman Fridays 8:00 P.M. Junior Boys St. Mary's East (Art Club) Sundays 11:00 A.M. Cauldwell Avenue Tuesdays 4:00 P.M. St. Mary's West Wednesdays 3:30 P.M. Mullaly Thurs. & F r i . 4:00 P.M. Mosholu Fridays 4:00 P.M. Mosholu Saturdays 11:00 A.M. Claremont Saturdays 1:00 P.M. Junior Girls Mosholu Tuesdays 4:00 P.M. Cauldwell Avenue Wednesdays 4:00 P.M. Crotona West Thur sdays 4:00 P.M. Mos holu Fridays 4:00 P.M. Ciccarone Fridays 4:00 P.M. Claremont Fri days 4:00 P.M. -- 2 ·· Clubs Contd. Mothers * Club s S t . Mary's E. Mondays 3:00 P . M. Mullaly Tuesdays 1:30 P. M. Lyons Square Tuesdays 2:30 P. M. 141st S t r e e t & Brook Tuesdays 7:00 P. M. St. Mary's W. Wednesdays 2:00 P. M. Mullaly Thursdays 4:00 P. M. Mullaly Saturdays 11:00 A. M. Girls Scouts Lyons Square Fridays 8:00 P . M. Drama St. Mary's E. Fridays 8:00 P . M. Lyons Square Fridays 8:30 P . M. Zimmerman Fridays 8:00 P . M. Mosholu Fridays 8:30 P . M, % Mullaly Saturdays 10:30 A.. M. Aquarium Club Crotona West Sundays 2:30 P . M. Glee Club Mullaly Tuesdays 4:00 P . M. Sundays 2:00 P . M. St. Mary's E. Harmonica Clubs Mondays 4 - 5 P . M. Lyons Square Mondays 7:30-8: 30 P . M 141st Street Playground Tuesdays 4 - 5 P . M. I 4 l s t Street playground Wednesdays 4 - 5 P . M. Mosholu Thursdays 4 - 5 P . M. Mosholu Thursdays 7:30-8: 30 P . M Mullaly Fridays 4 - 5 P . M. Mullaly Fr idays 7:30-8: 30 P. M Saturdays 4 - 5 P . M. Crotona West Chess & Checker Club Fridays 9:00 ' ?· M. St. Mary's E. Newspaper & Literary Club Fridays 8:00 P . M. St. Mary's E. Art Club Saturdays 1:30 P . M. S t . Mary's E. Sundays 11:00 A. M. tt MM - 3 - Clubs Contd. JuniorBirdmen of America 141st Street Friday 8:00 P . M. Mullaly Friday 4:00 P. M. Leather Craft. Club Mullaly Friday 4:00 r . M. Junior Protective League Crotona East Apr. 11-25 1 1 : 00 A.M. tt Crotona West tt tt 1 1 ; 00 A.M. Claremont n tt 2: 30 P.M. tt Mo sho lu tt tt tt tt Fort #4 Tt it tt tt ti Mullaly 'ft tt « tt tt Macombs ft n tt tt tt St» James ,, ,. tt tt ft Van Cortlanlt tt Handball Semi-Finals Mullaly Apr. 1 4:00 P.M. Finals Mullaly Apr. 4 2:00 P.M. Roller Skating Ho dee y Semi-Finals 164th S t . & Jerome Ave. Apr. 6 4:00 P.M. tt ft Crotona West " 11 2:00 P.M. 164th S t . & Jerome Ave. Finals Apr. 12 2:00 P.M. Crotona West Outdoor Basketball Finals Mullaly Apr. 5 2:30 r.M. Soccer - Football Semi-Finals (A) Winner of I v s . I I (Claremont) Apr. 16th 10:00 A.M. (B) Winner of I I I v s . IV. " ·' " 2:00 P.M. Finals Winner of A. vs. B. (Claremont) Apr. 18 10:00 A.M. - 4- ACTIVITIES Horseshoe P i t c h i n g (Boys and Young Men over 16 Years) Finals Winner of A. .vs. B. (Crotona) Apr. 26 2:00 F . M. Marble Shooting Contest Quarter F i n a l s A vs. B (Fulton) Apr. 25 10:00 A. M. w C vs. E (Teasdale) " 10:00 A. M. D vs. L (Mullaly) " 27 4:00 P. M. F vs. G- (Pulaski) " 29 4:00 P. M. J vs. K (St. James) " 30 4:00 P, M. H vs. I (Mullaly) May 1 2:00 P. M. Junior p r o t e c t i v e League Trip t o Botanical Garden Apr. 4 10:00 A. M. Puppet Show - ''The Brass Trumpet" 141st S t r e e t Apr. 1 4:00 P . M. Mullaly Apr. 2 4:00 P . M . Special Puppet Show Mullaly Apr. 14 2:00 P . M. G i r l Scout Meeting Mullaly Apr. 18 2:00 P. M. Vaudeville - "Memories on Parade" By Federal Theatre Project THE CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF PARKS BOROUGH OF $JEENS ACTIVITIES K i n d e r g a r t e n C l a s s e s - 10:00 A.M. t o 12 Noon d a i l y , except Sundays Jackson Heights F l u s h i n g Memorial O'Connell Corona - 102nd S t r e e t Von Dohlen John Andrews R o l l e r Hockey Contest Semi-Finals - A p r i l IS 2 : 3 0 P.M. Victory Field Bridge Plaza Finals April 25 2:30 P.M. Victory Field Horseshoe Pitching Contest Finals - Singles and Doubles - April 25 - 2:30 P.M. Bridge Plaza Dancing Classes Von Dohlen (Junior) Mondays 3:00 - 5:00 P.M. Anawanda « Mon. & Wed. 3:00 - 5:00 P.M.' Jackson Heights it Tuesdays 3:00 - 5:00 P.M. O'Connell M Tues. & F r i . 3:00 - 5:00 P.M. Corona - 102nd St. n Wednesdays 3:00 - 5:00 P.M. Rainey w Thursdays 3:00 - 5:00 P.M. John Andrews ti Saturdays 10:00 - 12:00 Noon Von Dohlen (Senior) Mondays 8:00 - 9:00 P.M. Jackson Heights it Thursdays 8:00 P.M. Puppet Class Von Dohlen Fridays 3:30 - 6:00 P.M. Dramatic Clubs Anawanda (Junior) Tuesdays 3:30 P.M. Corona - 102nd St. rt Tuesdays 3:30 P.M. tt Rainey Park Tuesdays 3:30 P.M. Von Dohlen n Wednesdays 3:30 P.M. Jackson Heights n Thursdays 3:30 P.M. ti Flushing Memorial Fridays 3:30 P.M. t» Flushing Memorial Friday, April 3 - "Red Riding BOROUGH OF gJEENS ACTIVITIES Dramatic Clubs - c o n t d . Corona - 102nd St. (Senior) Tuesdays 8:00 P . M. Von. Dohlen " Wed. & Thurs. 8:00 P . M. Jackson Heights Thursdays 8:00 P . M. Flushing Memorial Fridays 8:00 P . M. Harmonica Clubs Rainey Mondays 4:00 5:00 P .M. John Andrews Mondays 8:00 - 9:00 P .M. Kissena Tuesdays 4:00 - 5:00 P .M. Corona - 102nd Street Tuesdays 8:00 - 9:00 P .M. Anawanda Wednesdays 4:00 _ 5:00 P .M. Von Dohlen Wednesdays 8:00 - 9:00 P .M. O'Connell Thursdays 4:00 - 5:00 P .M. College Point Fridays 4:00 - 5:00 P .M. Jackson Heights Fridays 8:00 9:00 P .M, Senior G i r l s ' Clubs Corona - 102nd Street Mondays 8:00 P . ,M. Jackson Heights Fridays 7:30 P . ,M. O'Connell Saturdays 11:00 A.M. Boys' Clubs Rainey Park Mondays 7:00 P.,M. Von Dohlen Tues. & Thurs. 8:00 P , ,M. College Point Wed. & Fri. 5:00 P . .M. Mothers' Clubs Jackson Heights Mondays 7:00 P, .M. John Andrews Mondays 7:00 P , .M. O'Connell Wednesdays 1:30 P,.M. Corona - 102nd Street Wednesdays 2:00 P..M. Von Dohlen Fridays 2:00 P .M. Archery Clubs Jaakson Heights Sundays 11:00 A · M. Flushing Memorial Sundays 2:00 P .M. Stanro Club Corona - 102nd Street Sundays 1:00 P .M. Anawanda Sundays 1:00 P .M. BOROUGH OF QJEENS ACTIVITIES Soap Carving Club Corona - 102nd S t . Fridays 3:30 P.M. Rainey P a r k Sundays 2:00 P.M. C a l i s t h e n i c s Club Von Dohlen (Girls) Mon. & Wed. £:00 P.M. " " (Boys) Tues. & Thurs. 8:00 P.M. .American Indian Councils Jackson Heights Sundays 10:00 A.M. Jackson Heights Tuesdays 3:00 P.M. Rainey Wednesdays 10:00 A.M. 0'Connell Thursdays 3:00 P.M. F l u s h i n g Memorial Thursdays 7:00 P.M. Corona - 102nd S t . Fridays 3:00 P.M. Von Dohlen Saturdays * 10:00 A.M. Junior Park P r o t e c t i v e League - Saturday - A p r i l 4 a t 2:30 P.M. Anawanda Jackson Heights 0'Connell Baisley Jackson Pond O'Connor College P o i n t Newtown St.Albans Memorial Flushing Memorial Kissena Laurelton Highland Rainey Bowne Von Dohlen Evening Recreation (Adolescent Group only) Nightly except Sundays-6:00-10:00 P.M. Jackson Heights . Flushing Memorial John Andrews Corona - 102nd S t . Von Dohlen S o c i a l Evenings and P a r t i e s F l u s h i n g Memorial Wed., A p r i l 1 April Fools P a r t y Corona - 102nd S t . Wed., April 1 « « « Jackson Heights Wed., A p r i l 1 " " " w Traveling Troupe - Jiggs & Anna" Corona - 102nd S t . April 15 4:00 P.M. # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS BOROUGH OF RICHMOND Division of Recreation ACTIVITIES Handball Contest McDonald (Men's) April 4 2:00 P. M. McDonald (Juniors) tt 15 2:00 P. M. McDonald n 5 2:00 P. M. McDonald 8 9 8, 4:00 p. M. Snuffleboard Contest (Final Game ) Faber "18 2:30 p. M. Stunts McDonald it 18 3:00 P. M. Horse Shoe Contest Stapleton it 27 4:00 P. M. Athletic Events Model tt 11 3:00 p. M. Story Telling Hour Model ,, 12 3:00 p. M. Stapleton tt 18 2:00 p. M. Junior Park Protective League Clove Lakes ,, 4, 25 2:30 P. M. Richmond " 8, 21 4:00 p. M. Amateur Show Model it 25 3:00 P. M. Richmond it 16 3:00 p. M. Model Yacht Races Martlings Pond (Clove Lakes) it 25 2:00 p. M. Parties DeMatti - April Fool's Day Party " 1 3:00 p. M. DeMatti - Girls' Club Party "25 7:30 P. M. DeMatti - Kindergarten Exhibition " 29 1:30 P. M. DeMatti - Kindergarten party(Easter) 9 lj30 P. M. Walker - Social "25 8:00 p. M. # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS BOROUGH OF'RICHMOND Division of Recreation ACTIVITIES Boy's Clubs Clove Lakes April 18 2:00 P. M. Model " 7, 14, 21, 28 8:00 P. M. Mariner Harbor " 7 4:00 P. M. Stapleton " 3 4:00 P. M. Walker " 30 3:30 P. M. Girl's Clubs DeMatti tt 11 3:30 P. M. Faber tt 4, 11, 18, 25 10:30 A. M. Model ti 10, 24 7:30 P. M. Stapleton tt 14 4:00 P. M. Young Men's Club Mariner's Harbor 17 5:00 P. M. Richmond 4 7:30 P. M. Stapleton 24 4:00 P. M. Handicraft Club Mariners Harbor 24 M. Harmonica Club DeMatti tt 2,6,9, 13,16,20,23,27,30 4:00 P. M. Faber tt 4, 11, 18 , 25 4:00 P. M. McDonald n 1,7,8,14,15,21,22,28,29 4:00 P. M. Richmond . tt 3, 25 5:00 P. M, Junior Faberites Club Faber tt 4, 11, 18 , 25 10:00 A. M. Fencing Club Faber tt 4, 11, 18 , 25 11:00 A. M. Library Club DeMatti n 4 1:30 P. M. Newspaper Club Clove Lakes tt 8 4:00 P. M. Mariners Harbor tt 20 4:00 P. M. McDonald tt 6, 13, 20 , 27 7:30 P. M. Stapleton tt 22 4:00 P. M. Walker tt 18 10:30 A. M. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS BOROUGH OF'RICHMOND Division of Recreation ACTIVITIES Mothers' Club DeMatti April 2 1:30 P. M. Faber " 9, 16, 23, 30 2:00 P. M. Model " 2, 16, 23, 30 8:00 P. M. Ri chmond " 17 8:00 P. M. First Aid Class Stapleton it 7 4:00 P. M. 1! Faber 16 4;00 P. M. Nature Study Hike Class McDonald II 11 1:00 p. M. II Richmond 30 3:30 P. M. Safety Class Mariners Harbor II 15 4:00 P. M. Paddle Tennis If Mariners Habor 10 4:00 P. M. II Model 9 4:00 P. M. II Model 18 2-.00 P. M. II Richmond 15 2:00 p. M. Ping Pong DeMatti It 16 2:00 P, M. Faber tl 4 2:30 P. M. Model II 5 26 5, 11:00 A. M. Roller Hockey Clove Lakes II 11 2:00 P. M. Volley Ball Clove Lakes II 29 4:00 p. M. Model II 4 11:00 A. M. Punch Ball Clove Lakes II 15 4:00 P. M. Model It 30 4:00 P. M. Basket Ball McDonald 23 4:00 P. M. McDonald II 4 2:00 P. M. DeMatti (Boys vs Girls) II 21 4:00 P. M. II Mariners Harbor 3 4:00 P. M. Mariners Harbor tt 25 2:00 P. M. Richmond It 14 2:00 P. M. Richmond II 24 3:30 P. M. Stapleton It 11 2:00 P. M. Department of Parks For Release Arsenal - Central Park March l936 Tel: Regent 4 - 1000 The Department of Parks will open ten new playgrounds Saturday, March 28,making a total of 125 added to the recreational system in two years. Seven are in Brooklyn. At Remson Avenue, Winthrop to Clarkson Streets, there will be a hard ball baseball diamond, a football field, four hand- ball courts, three basket-ball courts, horseshoe, quoits and Boccie courts; at Smith Street/ between Luqueer and Nelson Streets there will be kindergarten swings, see-saws, a jungle gym, a sand table and six play houses; at Smith Street be- tween Nelson and Huntington Streets there will be four shuffle-board courts, to /^- three horseshoe courts and one basket-ball court; at Whrce, McKibben and Bogart Streets there will be three hand-ball courts, three shuffle-board courts, three horseshoe pitching courts, three basketball courts and swings; at Smith" Street, Carroll Street and First Place there will be four hand-ball courts, four shuffle- board courts and six horseshoe courts; at Jay and Nassau Streets there will be one hand-ball court, four see-saws, six junior swings, eight kindergarten swings, a play slide, a kiddie slide and a jungle gym; at Owl's Head Park there will be a wading pool, an area for group games, four slides, six kindergarten slides, kindergarten swings, large swings, see-saws, a jungle_gym and a baby jungle gym. In the new Rosebank Playground at Virginia and Vermont Avenues in Richmond there will be a basketball court, garden swings, junior swings, kinder- garten swings, shelters, play houses, a sand table, see-saws, a jungle gym and a portable shower. In Manhattan there will be two new playgrounds: At East Houston,'Elizabeth Street and Bowery there will be two hand-ball courts, three horseshoe pitching courts, parallel and horizontal bars and an open play area for games, end at 106th S'UKSet East of Fifth Avenue there will be junior swings, kindergarten swings, see-saws, slides, a jungle gym, a junior horizontal bar, two sand tables, two play houses and an open area for games. All of these playgrounds were constructed es Works Progress Ad- ministration projects. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ^ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE .ARSENAL, CENTRAL PAlte REGENT 4-1000 7 *-? *¥ 7 ^ MARCH 20, 1956 The Department of Parks announces that owing to the poor playing pitch at North Meadow in Central Park due to recent heavy rains, the rugby football game featuring the New York Rugby Club and college stars from Long Island University has been shifted to Van Cortlandt Park where the teams will clash Saturday, March 21 at 5:00 P.M. The game will mark the first of a series of three in which the New York Rugby Club will meet college and amateur rugger clubs on Department of Parks fields. The French Club will be encountered at North Meadow in Central Park, Saturday, March 28, while the Princeton Rugby Club will be met Saturday, April 4, at the same site. Several thousand spectators are expected to thrill to the famous English sport. # # # # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS MARCH 19TH, 1936 ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGENT 4-1000 Rugby f o o t b a l l w i l l make i t s debut i n North Meadow C e n t r a l P a r k t h i s Sunday, March 2 1 s t , a t 3:00 o ' c l o c k w i t h t h e s t r o n g fifteens of t h e New York Rugby Club and New York U n i v e r s i t y furnishing the c o m p e t i t i o n . The Department of P a r k s w i l l sponsor t h e match. The game w i l l be t h e f i r s t of a s e r i e s of t h r e e i n which t h e New York Rugby Club w i l l meet t h e o u t s t a n d i n g amateur clubs on t h e E a s t e r n seaboard. On Sunday, March 2 9 t h , t h e French Club w i l l make i t s appearance a t North Meadow f o r a match w i t h t h e New Yorkers while on Saturday, A p r i l 4 t h , P r i n c e t o n ' s Rugby Club w i l l t r a v e l here t o engage the locals. A r e g u l a t i o n rugby f i e l d has been l a i d out i n North Meadow between 99th and 100th S t r e e t s o f f C e n t r a l P a r k West. The Department of P a r k s p l a n s t o i n v i t e t h e i n v a d i n g Oxford U n i v e r s i t y squad t o u r i n g t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s i n t h e summer t o compete in several international exhibition matches. t ## <\ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK MARCH 18, 1936 TEL. REGENT 4-1000 The Department of P a r k s announces t h a t rugby f o o t b a l l w i l l # · be introduced to the general public for the f i r s t time at the North Meadow, Central Park. The New York Rugby Club, one of the outstand- ing amateur organizations in the metropolitan d i s t r i c t , will engage in a series of three games, the opening game being scheduled Saturday afternoon, March 21, at 3:00 o'clock, with New York University's colle- giate squad. Sunday, March 29, the New York Rugby Club will play host to the French Club and Saturday, April 4, the New York team will oppose the strong Princeton Rugby Club. These games will be staged at the North Meadow field in Central Park. The Department of Parks plans to invite leading English teams visiting the United States to engage in several international exhibition matches later in the season. The sport i s spectacular and considered as fast and exciting as modern American football. End t DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK MARCH 17, 1956 TEL. REGENT 4-1000 SIGNS IN CITY PARKS The agreement with the Works Progress Administration reached in the Mayor's office yesterday as to signs in City parks has been carried out by the Park Department. This includes the placing of one 30 x 50 placard at each of the new swimming pools and a similar sign on each other major construction project. In the course of this controversy, statements without founda- tion have been made as to other existing signs in City parks. These signs have been placed in areas from which the public has been excluded on account of temporary construction and where numerous inquiries have boon received as to what is 'going on and at such places as temporary exits and entrances on the West Side development and at the end of Riverside Drive where the Henry Hudson Parkway begins. None of these signs have included the name of the Park Commissioner or anyone else connected with the Park Department. A few contractors* signs have beon put up but only whore there wag some legal basis for doing so under contracts. On the other hand, thousands of signs have beon taken dorm throughout the park system. In ordor that thore may be no misunderstanding c.s to the attitude of the Park Department, all signs of c. temporary nature indicating construction work including contractors' signs and signs shov;ing plans of construction work, except those recently agreed on v.ith the Works Progress Administration, have been cvrdored taken down. The principle will, there- fore, be carried out without any exceptions whatever. Robert Moses \V.-\- / COPY DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR II.f/ISDIATS RS.EASS A r s e n a l , C e n t r a l Park March 9 , 1936 T e l . Regent 4-1000 The Department of P a r k s announces t h a t t h e f i r s t monkey t o b e bred and b o r n i n t h e C e n t r a l Park Zoo a c c o r d i n g t o t h e memory of t h e o l d e s t k e e p e r , was born t o G e r t r u d e , one of t h e Rhesus monkeys, a t 9 o ' c l o c k t h i s morning. Gertrude was a c q u i r e d i n F e b r u a r y 1935, and. h a s been noted f o r her termagant qualities. She has been the iron-fisted boss of her cage and her fellow occupants have always shown her the greatest respect. For this reason, the baby, which was born in the hospital room of the monkey house, has been returned with his mother to the large cage where he may be viewed by the public. The baby is perfectly formed, stands about 6" high, and weighs 15-is- ounces. There will be no diet prescribed for the new- arrival as i t is being nursed by i t s mother. Gertrude, however, will get delicacies not usually the fare of the primates during the next few weeks. -end- DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FEBRUARY 28, 19S6 TEL. REGENT 4-1OOO The enthusiasm of the children of Manhattan over the formation of a League of "Park Protectors" continues at high pitch. The next meeting of all Man- hattan Units will be held Saturday, February 29. Patrols already are reporting a willingness on the part of adults as well as children to respect Park Department ordinances when violations are courte- ously brought to their attention. Each League Unit is industriously making and erecting a handsome replica of -che Oath of Office, which will be displayed in their meeting rooms. A prize will be awarded for the best. End, DEPARTMENT OF PARES FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FEBRUARY 27, 1936 TEL. RB3-ENT 4-1090 The Department of Parks announces that beginning Saturday, February 29, and until further notice, the brown bear cub, which on that day will be sixteen days old, will be put on exhibition in the elephant house at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, between 2:00 and 4:00 P.M. Between those hours the little fellow will be placed in a glass incubator, fed and handled by the human hand, something that never before has ever been attempted. Probably there are fewer than 100 people in Greater New York who have ever seen a cub of his age, size and weight. END DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FEBRUARY 26, 1936 Tel, Regent 4-1000 The Park Department issues a warning to property owners who have trees in front of their houses, that specific attention must be given to trees where large quantities of rock salt and calcium chloride have been used to remove snow and ice from side- walks . The tree experts in the Department state that there is danger of the rock salt and the calcium chloride mixed with water being absorbed by trees and destroying them. It is unlikely that these chemicals will kill well-established trees at once. However, there is a danger that these materials will weaken them and cause trouble later in the season. Particular attention should be given to young trees that have been planted within the.past few years. The Park Department recommends that during the thaw the soil around these trees be given a liberal watering with a hose, if possible three times a week. This will dilute the strength of the rock salt and calcium chloride and will lessen the possibility of injury to the trees. # # # # # # \ \ DEPARTMENT OF PA] ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 21, 1936, Tel. REgent 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces that over twenty thousand fans are expected to attend the City Championship Ice Skating Races and Winter Sports Carnival to be held this Sunday afternoon at 2 P.M. on the 59th Street Lake, Central Park, Features of the elaborate program include fancy skating, ice skating races, figure skating, novelty races, a costume parade and other events. The following stars have been invited to appear: Herman Lamazar, Rae Racine, Charlie Jewtra, Dick Williams and Wilbur Meyer. Ray Murray, former Speed Skating Champion, will lead a fox chase in which children of the various playgrounds will participate. Another event that will appeal to the young and old will bring together Sam See, 80 year old speed skater and Jimmy Schnell, the four year old boy wonder. The following races will be held* Juvenile Boys - - - - 8 to 12 Years -- 100 Yards Junior Boys 12 to 14 Years -- 100 Yards & 200 Yards Intermediate Boys 14 to 16 Years -- 220 Yards & 440 Yards Senior Boys 16 to 18 Years -- 220 Yards & (880 Yards Juvenile Girls 8 to 12 Years -*- 100 Yards Junior Girls 12 to 14 Years -- 100 Yards & 220 Yards Intermediate Girls 16 to 18 Years -- 220 Yards & 440 Yards Senior Girls 16 to 18 Years -- 220 Yards & 880 Yards Unlimited Class -> Men One Mile Unlimited Women 220 Yards Senior Men (closed M.A.S.A.) Two Mile Senior Women (closed M.A,S,A.) 880 Yards Prizes will be awarded those finishing one, two and three in the various races. Beautiful cups or trophies will be presented to the champion of each individual event. The program will finish with a hockey game between the Borough Champions of Queens and Manhattan t© determine the Park Department Ice Hockey Championship. A point scors vri.ll be kept to determine the individual borough championship. Arrangements have been made to accommodate the hu^e crowd. END DEPART! EFT OF II-1-TZDIATS RELEASE S89 ARSENAL, CENTRAL lUA'rtY 2 0 , 1936 Tel. Recent 4-1000 KOFSTER VII'TILR SPORTS CARFIVAL The Department of Parks announces that an ANIHJAL FOF- STSR "JITTER SPORTS CARFIVAL will be held at 59th Street Lake, Central Park, Sunday, February 23, 1936, at 2 P.M. The carnival will open with a parade of competitors and others in costumes. Eighteen speed races are scheduled. Winners who placed 1-2-3 in events of the borough carnivals held recently, will be eli- gible to compete for the city championship. Two events are closed to the winners registered with the Fiddle Atlantic Skat- ing Association and the remainder for the Park Department cham- pions. These races will be conducted over an eight lap track. Juvenile Boys ·- 8 to 12 Years -- 100 Yards Junior Boys - 12 to 14 Years -- 100 Yards & 200 Yards Intermediate Boys - 14-16 Years -- 220 Yards & 440 Yards Senior Boys - 16 to 13 Years -- 220 Yards & 880 Yards Juvenile Girls - 8 to 12 Years -- 100 Yards Junior Girls - 12 to 14 Years -- 100 Yards & 220 Yards Intermediate Girls - 16-18 Years -- 220 Yards & 440 Yards Senior Girls - 16 to 18 Years -- 2£0 Yards & 880 Yards Unlimited Class - Men One Kile Unlimited Women 220 Yards Senior Fen (closed K.A.S.A.) Two Kile Senior Women (closed K.A.S.A.) 880 Yards. In the Park Department championships the winners will be awarded silver engraved cups. Winners of the closed events will receive engraved plaoues, and silver and bronze medals will be given to those who finish 2nd & 3rd. Page #2 Added features will include fancy skating exhibition by Herman Lamazar and Rae Racine, Figure skaters representing the Manhattan Skating Club will be led by Robert Fenn. Joe Moore, former Speed Skating Champion, will lead a fox chase in which 50 Playground children v/ill participate. The Race of the Century will bring together Samuel See, 80 Year old skater against little Jimmy Schnell, 4 years of age, Among others invited to take part are Charlie Jewtraw, former Olympic winner, Dick Williams and his Beginner's Act, Bobbie Hearn, famous barrel jumper, Wilbur Meyer, and Ray Murray, The program v/ill close with a hockey game between the borough champions of Q,ueens and Manhattan to determine the Park Department ice hockey championship. All skaters will report at 1 P.M. sharp. The public is invited and admission is free. ####### DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Arsenal,. C e n t r a l P a r k February 2 0 , 1936 T e l . Regent 4-1000 The Department of parks announces that the next meeting of the Brooklyn League of Park Protectors will be held Saturday, February 22nd, 1936, Patrols already are reporting a willingness on the part of adults as well as children to respect the ordinances of the park Department where violations are courteously brought to their attention* Each League Unit is now industriously making and erecting a handsome replica of the Oath of Office which will be displayed in their meeting ro*msf A prize will be awarded for the best, DEPARTMENT1-OF PARKS FEBRUARY 13, 1936 ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGENT 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces the greatest winter spirts carnival of the 1935-1936 winter sports season. This monster carnival will be staged on the Fifty-Ninth Street Lake in Central Park on Sunday afternoon, February 23rd, at 2 P.M. The carnival will be featured by 18 boy and girl speed skating events for the city parks championships. Winners of the recent carnivals held in Manhattan, Queens, Richmond, Brooklyn and The Bronx are eligible for these titular affairs. Prizes in forms of trophies will be awarded* In addition to the park speed races, a second series closed to members of the Middle Atlantic Skating Association will be contested. These races, open to senior men and women, are expected to bring out the leading contenders of the present season. Exhibitions in figure skating, barrel-jumping, a waltz contest and an inter-borough hockey match between playground teams also are scheduled on the program. Ideal skating weather and the great interest exhibited by the public in winter sports this year have been responsible for the most successful carnivals staged by the Department of Parks, END "58 b DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FEBRUARY 1 1 t h , 1936» REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 The Department of Parks will sponsor a series of borough winter sports carnivals on Lincoln's Birthday, Wednesday, February 12th, at 2 P.M. Brooklyn) Richmond and The Bronx will see hundreds of speed skaters, fancy skating stars and playground hockey teams in action on programs of assorted events» The Brooklyn carnival will be stager! on the Prospect Park Lake. The Richmond and Bronx meets, postponed i'roia Sunday, will be held at Clove Lakes Park and Van Cort- laclt Park, respectively* In Richmond more than 15,000 are expected to witness the Richmond County speed skating championship* This meet has attracted the entries of leading boy and g i r l skaters in Richmond* In Brooklyn speed skaters from the Middle Atlantic Skating Association will compete in the speed skating series, A fancy costume contest will be one of the highlights of Brooklyn carnival* Ten events and a hockey game between teams from Mullaly and De Voe Playgrounds will feature the Bronx carnival. Skaters who wish to compete in any of these three series are urged to report at 1 o'clock for registration. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK February 10, 1936 Regent 4-1000 The Depertrnent of Parks will sponsor c monster Winter Sports Cernival, the fourth of a series of borough ice carnivals this winter, at Prospect Perk Lake, Brooklyn, Lincoln's Birthday, Wednesday, February 12 at 2:00 P.M. Speed sketing events open to skaters of all ages will feature the program. Teams from the Brooklyn Ice Palece, high schools end public schools and Brooklyn playgrounds will compete in the speed skating races over distances ranging from 100 yerds to two miles. Exhibition hockey gr.iaes between playground sixes ?>nd fancy sketing exhibitions ere clso listed on the borough csrnivfl program. All skaters wishing to compete in the meet ere requested to appeer end register .-t the course ft one o'clock Wednesday s fternoon. End DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ,J FEBRUARY 6, 1936. ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK 1? ° 7 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGENT 4-100C The Department of Parks announces that the first meetings of the Junior Park Protective League Units, recently organized under the supervision of park playground directors, will be held Saturday, February 8, at 2:30 P. M., at forty-one field houses throughout the five boroughs. More than 3,000 prospective junior members are expected to attend these meetings. The conferences Saturday will be devoted to organization and the election of officers for each junior group. The aims of the Junior Park Protective League will be fully explained and a badge presented to each memb er. The League is limited to school children between the ages of 12 and 16 who receive "A" in conduct and are recommended by their school principals. The members of the League will aid regular park forces in call- ing the park ordinances and regulations to the attention of park patrons throughout the city park system. They will make reports at their regular meetings, which are scheduled twice a month. 0-ther important functions of members of the League include the prevention of vandalism, the sanitation of parks and playgrounds and the cooperation of children and adults. The project, sponsored for the first time by the Department of Parks, has aroused great interest among the chil- dren. *************** 585 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FebrulPy i , 1936. CENTRAL PARK, ARSENAL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGENT 4-11D00 A Winter Sports Carnival Under the Stars will be sponsored by the Department of Parks at the Fifty-Ninth Street Lake, 59th St. and Fifth Ave., Manhattan, on Tuesday evening, February 4. The carnival which will be open to the general public will feature several novelty events in addition to speed skating events and a hockey game. The prof.raia will get under v;ay ax 8j30 P.M. The card vrill consist of a waltzing contest on skates, a costume parade, a wheelbarrow race, a sled race and the hockey game between playground sixes. The leading speed skating stars of the Metropolitan district have been invited to compete in a two mile exhibition race* An added feature will be the awarding of prizes to the winners of the Metropolitan championships and the Park Playground ice skating championships recently staged at Central Park. ### DEPARTMENT OF PARKS^ r/\ ^n* J A M J ^ 30, 1936, ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK ^ \f .i* FOR B3JEDIATE RELEASE REGENT 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces a Winter Sports Carnival Under the Stars which w i l l be held at the Fifty-Ninth Street Lake Tuesday evening, February 4 t h , 1956, at 8:30 P.M. The carnival w i l l be open t o the general public and in the event there i s skating that night, exhibitions and novelty events w i l l take place. Included among the features scheduled Tuesday night w i l l be a waltzing contest on ice skates, a costume parade, a wheel- barrow r a c e , a sled race and a hockey game. Speed skating champ- ions have been requested to p a r t i c i p a t e in a two-mile exhibition race. An added a t t r a c t i o n w i l l be the awarding of p r i s e s to t h e winners of the recent Central Park Winter Sports Carnival. Public skating w i l l follow the carnival. $d DEPARTISNT OF PARKS IMMEDIATE RELEASE F 0 R ARSENAL - CENTRAL PARK JANUARY 2 5 , 1 9 3 6 . REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 The Department of Parks announces that the twice-postponed annual Winter Sports Carnival will be staged this afternoon, Sunday, January 26, 1936, at the Fifty-Ninth Street Lake, 59th St, and Fifth Ave., Manhattan. Several hundred speed skaters recruited from playgrounds and skating centers will compete in eighteen events over an eight lap track. Added features will include figure skating exhibitions, a hockey game and the presentation of prizes to the winners of the recent Snow Sculpture contest sponsored by the Department of Parks. Juveniles, Juniors, Intermediates, Seniors and Unlimited Age contestants will flash their speed in races over distances ranging from 100 yards to a half mile. Gold, silver and bronze medals will be awarded the one-two-three finishers in each speed skating event. The skaters will, appear in. two races limited to each division. The leading senior boys of the metropolitan district will battle in a 220-yard sprint and. an 880-yard fixture. Through the courtesy of Joseph K. Savage of the United States Figure Skating Association, a bevy of leading fancy skaters will exhibit in singles and pair skating events. The hockey game will be between representa- tive playground center teams from Manhattan and Queens. This game will close the winter sports carnival program. All skaters who wish to compete today e.re invited to report at the course at 1 o'clock sharp. Admission is free both t o the competitors and the public. # # # # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS O " FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JANUARY 2 3 , 1 9 3 6 . REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 The Department of Parks announces that i t s annual Winter Sports Carnival will be staged Sunday afternoon, January 26, 1936, on the Fifty-Ninth Street Lake, 59th St. and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, starting promptly at 2 o'clock. Eighteen speed skating finals, figure skating exhibitions and a hockey game between representative playground squads will comprise the program. Juvenile, junior, intermediate, senior and unlimited age skaters from playgrounds and skating centers throughout the five boroughs will compete in the speed skating events. The skaters will con- test over distances ranging from 100 yards to a half mile. Skaters who qualified in elimination tests several weeks ago will advance to the finals without having to start in the t r i a l heats. All other featers who wish to compete are invited to report and register at the course at 1 o'clock. An eight lap track has been laid out on the northeast end of the lake. The Park Department Band will furnish music before and during the carnival. ## # # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK FOR IMMEMTE RELEASE 579 JANUARY 2JST, 1 9 3 6 . TEL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 Yesterday's heavy snowfall makes it possible to complete the "Snow Sculpture Contest" that xvas begun by the Department of Parks , December 30th in all city playgrounds. This is the second annual snoxv sculpture contest sponsored by this department. City-wide competition to determine the best example of snow architecture and sculpture in each borough is being held the first week of January. Eliminations in this contest have been confined to the six best models submitted from each borough. The playgrounds are as follows: MMK&TTAN: East 28th St. St. Catherine's W 130th St. & Amsterdam Ave. Columbus Fort Tryon J Hood Wright Ave A & 3rd St. QJJEErlS: Kissena 0'Connell Van Dohlen Rainey Jackson Heights Flushing Memorial Victory Field, Forest Park BRONX: Mosholu Kullaly Crotona West Spofford Ave. St Mary's E. Cauldwell Ave. Fort #4. BROOKLYN: Montgomery & Nostrand Gravesend Plygd. McKinley Dyker Beach 3rd St & 4th Ave. Kelly Memorial RICHMOND: De Matti McDonald Model Mariners Harbor Walker Park Clove Lakes Park Page 2- Their ingenuity is shown in such sculpture as a replica of Gowanus field house, a temple, a sea monster, Father Time and the Baby 1936, a polar bear on a cake of ice, a hippopotamus, seal and lion. Eliminations to determine the best snow model in eaoh borough and the city winner will be held in the park grounds January 21st to 23rd. A committee of judges will select the best examples of this art Wednesday and Thursday, January 22nd and 23rd. Judging will be determined from the following: 1. Subject matter* 2. Skill and workmanship. 3. Originality 4. Conformity to prescribed rules of the contest. Prizes, furnished by Janamaker'3, will be awarded to winners for the best structure built by group effort as well as for individual ability. Sweaters will be given winning playground contestants and leather jackets will go to finalists. The prize awards will be topped by a grand prize of a complete sportman's outfit, with a suitably engraved cup which yanamaker's vail award the winner for the best display of sncw structure to be found in the city. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR BiihiDIATE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JANUARY 17TH, 1936. TiSL. REGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 . 'V, The Department of Parks announces it will give a Recreation Course at the Carmine Street Gymnasium, Clarkson Street and Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, beginning January 22 to and including Inarch 4» Classes are from 10 to 12 A.1.1. There will be one evening lecture and demonstration February 19 from S to 8 P.Li. This course is for the benefit of all Works Progress Administration Playground Directors, who are performing such duties in our park playgrounds. This course is also open to regular Civil Service Playground Directors, who will be excused to attend the lecture whenever their absence does not interfere with the regular recreational program of the playground. The Park Department is anxious to increase the efficiency of its playground staff because the children become the ultimate bene- factors. All courses are in the form of lectures and, whenever possible, demonstrations will be given on different subjects, Sams-of the courses are: 1. General Duties, Responsi- 7. Folk Dancing. bilities, Organization 8. Tournaments. and Administration, 9» Tennis and Paddle Tennis. Control, Courtesy, Con- 10. Baseball. tact with Public, and 11. Basketball. Sanitation of a Playground. 12.. Dramatics. 2. Kindergarten Organization 13* Handcraft. and Activities. 14. Group Games. 3. Athletics. 15. Stunts. 4. Club Organization. 16. Puppets and I.arionettes. 5. Scout Organization, Purpose, 17. F i r s t Aid. Program. IS. 3\;usic. 6. Day Camps. COPY UF PARiS i/ilj CBSEHAL PABK FOR BMSOTE RELEAJ3S TIL. R%ent 4-1000 January 17th, 1936 The Department o Parks announces that during 1935 an average of 750 Civil Service and W.P.A. man were employed on forestry work in t h e five boroughs. This program called for the removal of dead and damaged t r e e s , pruning of dangerous or obstructing limbs, insect and disease eradications and f e r t i l i z a - tion of trees to keep them i n a healthy growing condition. A sunmary of reports from t h e five boroughs shows t h a t approximately 120,000 t r e e s were pruned to b e t t e r t h e i r condition or t o eliminate poor v i s i - bility at traffic lights or intersections. In cooperation with the State and Federal Conservation Departments the park foresters detected 989 cases of Dutch Elm disease. 'Hie only method of eradi- cation for this disaasa is to destroy the infected tree. Every elm tree in the five boroughs has been spotted and i s being closely watched to prevent further spread of this menace which is threatening to destroy the American Sba. At intervals throughout the year over two and a half million gallons of spray solution were used on four hundred thousand trees in all boroughs. This was the largest program of spraying for insect and disease eradication ever carried out by the Park Department, destructive pests were conspicuous by their absence in localities which had been sprayed. Two boroughs reporting on tent caterpillar eradication show over ten thousand nests destroyed during the early aunmer. This i s in addition to the countless thousands of egg masses destroyed by spraying with penetrating oils* A healthy tree is less susceptible to disease. Twenty-five thousand trees were treated with three hundred and fifty tons of fertilizer. A still larger program of tree feeding is planned for this year. - 2- n Cortlan&t Park and vicinity wore thoroughly gone over to detect tlie presence of Gypsy Moth, one of our most destructive pests. This work was done trader the direction of the State Conservation Department, About two hundred aeraa of woodland were fine-eoxabod and approximately thirty thousand, shade trees in- spected in parks and along streets, resulting in an application of fifty thousand pounds of arsenate of lead to ©radicate the peat. 376 January 16, 1936. To; Borough Directors Borough Supervisory FROM: James V. Mulholland SUBJECT: Recreation Course In order to increase the efficiency of our play- ground directors, this Department will conduct a Recreation Course at The Recreation Building, Carmine Street Gymnasium, Clarkson Street & 7th Avenue, January 22 to March 4, 10-12 A.M. It is compulsory for all Playground Directors who entered this Department subsequent to September 20th, 1935, to attend this course. The various instructors selected to lecture have been chosen for their superior ability in a particular subject and they are directed to prepare an instructive and intelligent lecture. The Supervisors of Recreation are directed to notify all playground directors mentioned above to attend this Course, Miss Mary E. McKenna, Manhattan, will designate a representative to keep an accurate attendance record during the entire period* Attached find schedule of classes. JAMES V. MOLHOLLAND Director of Recreation JVM:IHM f RECREATION COURSE DEPARTMENT OS1 PARKS A W Carmine S t . Gymnasium Clarkson S t . & 7 t h A v e . , N.Y. DATE HOURS COURSES INSTRUCTORS .Jan. 10-12 A.M. General Duties, R e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s , Organization J.V.Mulholland 22 and Administration, Safety, Discipline, Control, Courtesy, Contact with P u b l i c , Sanitation of a Playground - (Man and Women) 24 10-11 Kindergarten (Women) -- A.Buckley H.Goldberg 11-12 Music (Women) ~ M.Kimball . A.DeCesare 29 10-11 Puppets and Marionettes-(lecture and demonstra--K.Henderson tion (Women) -O.Gallston 11-12 Folk Dancing ( l e c t u r e and demonstration (Women) - S . Naftalen - I . Oblas ' 31 10-12 Aims, Organization & Purpose of a Scout C.Weingarten Program (Women) C.Thompson Feb. 10-11 Handcraft (Men and Women) ; A.Ficareff 5 _ J.Sarych 11-12 F i r s t Aid (Men and Women) R.A.Learned _. F.Jaeger 7 10-11 P a t r o l System, Troop Recreation : C.Weingarten 11-12 Community Organization (Women) , C.Thompson 11 10-11 Baseball (lecture & demonstration) (Men) J.O'Donnell E.Cummins 11-12 Basketball (lecture &· demonstration) (Men) M.O'Connell J . Gorman 14 10-12 Nature Program & Crafts M.Gaidette < C.Marsh 19 6-6:50 P.M. Group Games (lecture & demonstration) (Men and M.Hemley - Women) --A.Rosenberg 6:50-7:10 J u n i o r Park P r o t e c t i v e League-Aims, Purpose & ' Organ i z a t i on G, Feathers tone 7:10-8 T a c t i c s , Marching, C a l i s t h e n i c s ~ R.Stahl-H.Haas 21 10-12 A.M. Day Camps & Program (Women) K.Engle Co-op.with Boro Counsel-Eoro S t a f f Mem.bers C.Weingarten '. 26 10-11 , Athletics (lecture and demonstration) J.Downing ' (Men and Women) J.McCahill -' 11-12 Club Organization (lecture) (Men and Women) G.Coughlin J.T.Murtha 28 10-11 Tennis-paddle tennis (lecture & demonstration)-'--C.Starke-J.Roche 11-12 Dramatics (Men and Women) M.Flood-A.Lemke Mar. 10-11 Stunts (lecture and demonstmtion) (Men) E.Singer-M.Cohen 4 11-12 Tournaments (lecture)-,-- ·, ---. J.McCormack (Men) -- > J.Murray 375 Department of Parks For Release Arsenal, Central Park January 15, 1936 PRESS RELEASE - TRAVELING TROUPE The Department of Parks announces a new schedule for the J Playground Traveling Troupe, featuring "Jiggs and Anna" the perform- ing chimpanzees. The revue which also stars clowns and a clever magician has proven tremendously popular since starting its tour of playgrounds and parks in the five boroughs two months ago. The schedule from January to April: Jan. 25 at 3:00 P.M Faber, Richmond. Jan. 29 4:00 P.M McDonald, Richmond. Feb. 1 3:00 P.M DeMatti, Richmond. 5 4:00 P.M McCray, Manhat can. 8 3:00 P.M Payson Ave. & Dyckman St., Manhattan. 11 4:00 P.M Highbridge, 189th St., Manhattan. 15 3:00 P.M Zimcierman, Bronx, 19 4:00 P.M 141st St., Bronx. 86 4:00 P.M Gowanus, Brooklyn. 29 3:00 P.M Fulton & Classon, Brooklyn. Mar. 4 4:00 P.M Lindsay, Brooklyn. 7 3:00 P.M John Andrews, Queens. 11 4:00 P.M.. Flushing Memorial, Queens, 14 3:00 P.M Model Playground, Richmond, 18 4:00 P.M Yorkville, Manhattan. 21 3:00 P.M....... 83 Roosevelt, Manhat can, 25 4:00 P.M Carmine "st. , Manhattan. 28 3:00 P.M ..Mosholu, Bronx. Apr, 1 4:00 P.M Ciccarone, Bronx, 4 3:00 P.M ..Heckschor, Brooklyn. 8 4:00 P.M McKibben, Brooklyn. 11 3:00 P.M New Lots, Brooklyn. 15 4:00 P.M.. Corona 102d St., Queens. 18 3:00 P.M. Morningside, 123d St., Manhattan. 22 4:00 P.M Lewis & Rivington St., Manhattan, 25 3:00 P.M.......Gulick, Manhattan. 29 4:00 p.M Drier-Offerman, Brooklyn. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR RELEASE - J e n . 15 P1ESS K E L E ^ L KIKDGERGARTENS, Department oi^Barks Manhattan--Carmansville, Morningside & 123rd St. , W. 134th St. Gymnasium, Riverside & 96th S t . , 83 Roosevelt S t . , Highbridge & 180th St., Roosevelt Playground, Highbridge & 189th St., Sauer Play- ground, W . 17th St., John Jay, Payson Ave. & Dyckman St. Bronx--Fort #4, Mosholu, Mullaly (Recreation Bldg.), 141st. St., St. Mary's E., St. Mary's W., Crotona park W., Ciccarone, Zimmer- man, Lyons Sq., Crotona E., Claremont, Echo, Cauldwoll, Spofford & Faile, Mccombs, St. James, 163d- St. & Tinton Ave. Brooklyn--McLsughlin, Gowanus, Sheridan, Fulton & Classon, N ew Lots, Kelly, Red Hook, McKinley, Drior-Offorman, Heckscher, Gravosend, Betsy Head, Lindsay, Bush'vide. Queens--O'Connoll, Von Dohlen, Corona 102d St., Jackson Hts., Dry Harbor, Anawanda. Hiebmond-- Fafoer Park, Model playground, McDonald Playground, DEPARTMENT OF PABKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PAEK January 11, 1936 Tel. Regent 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces that the Winter Sports Carnival, scheduled at Fifty-ninth Street Lake in Central Park for Sunday, January 12, has been indefinitely postponed due to leek of ice. The carnival will be held on forty-eight hours' notice. End DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL,, CENTRAL PARK "January 1 1 , i936 TEL. REGENT 4-1000 The Department of P a r k s announces t h e organization of a Junior Park Protective League un- der the supervision of the park playground directors. Membership in the league will be limited to school children between the ages of 12 and 16 who receive a grade of "i." in conduct and who are recommended by the.school principals. There ·will be separate league groups for fifty-five important parks in the five boroughs end 3,000 membership blanks will be distributed by the play- ground directors Monday, January 13th. The f i r s t meet- ings will be held Saturday, February 8th at 3:00 P. M. Members of the Junior Park Protective League will aid the regular park forces in calling the park ordinances and regulations to. the attention of the park patrons. They will make reports to the playground directors at their regular meetings to be held at the recreation buildings. Each member of the league will be given a special badge which has been paid for by the donation of private funds. - END- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 10th, 1936 The Board of Estimate and Apportionment has rec- eived the Department of Parks' plans ana specifications and estimates of cost for the covering of the Nev; York Central Railroad tracks, continuation of the West Side Highway and park restoration through the entire lengtfe of Riverside Park. The item appeared on today's Calendar for reference to the Chief Engineer and Corporation Counsel for report before the January 24th meeting. The plan calls for the complete covering of the New lork Central Railroad tracks through Riverside Park and the covering is used for promenades and overlooks banked by trees and landscaping. The West Side Express Highway is continued from 72ni Street to St. Clair Place with access and exit drives at 72nd Street, grade crossing eliminations and access drives at 79th Street, access to Riverside Lr-ivc at 95th Street, direct access to 96th Sti-ect including grace eroding el inunctions, and connections with St. Clair Plac^ and the Viaduct which if the continuation of Riverside Drive at this point. The Express Highway throughout the "length of the park is laid out as a park- way with no crossings · t grade end v.lth proper landscaping. At 83rd Street it swings off the covering of the tracks and follows along the Hudson River shoreline. This vdll provide a safe, fast route extending from Canal Street to St. Clair Place where it connects with Riverside Drive leading to the Henry Hudson Parkway starting at Eyckman Street. The Henry Hudson Parkway will continue the route through Inwood Hill Park across the Harlem River and through the Bronx to the City Line where it will connect through the 3av; Mill River Parkway to the Tvestchester Parkway system. Riverside Park will be properly developed and land- scaped from end to end. The plans include playgrounds, tennis courts, wading pools, walks and overlooks, landscaped areas and boat basins. - end - 1 01 DEPARTMENT OF PARIS J a n u a r y 4 1936 Regent 4-1000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE FOR SUNDAY PAPERS The Department of Parks announces t h a t t h e f i n t e r Sports Carnival w i l l be held at 59th S t r e e t Lake, Central Park, Sunday, January 5 at 2 P.M. T^ere w i l l be figure s k a t i n g e x h i b i t i o n s by Olympic s t a r s headed by Robin Lee of Minneapolis, National Men's Figure Svating Champion. Others who ·will give figure skating exhibitions are the following: E r i e R e i t e r , runner- up t o Robin Lee, Howard Meredith and Marjorie Parker of Brooklyn who w i l l give a p a i r skating e x h i b i t i o n and Miss N e t t i e F r a n t e i l , Ardele Kloff, George 3 0 l e r e n and J o seph K. Savage who w i l l demonstrate s k i l l and grace i n a group exhibition. Approval has been obtained from the Middle Atlantic Seating Asso- ciation to hold the Metropolitan Skating Championships in connection with this Winter Sports Carnival. At the present time, there are 5- fr inches of ice on the 59th Street lake. T^ere will be races for juveniles, juniors, intermediates and seniors from 100 yards jo two miles. Winners of the Park Department Borough Eliminations will not be required t o compete in the t r i a l heats during the morning. All others who have not competed in Borough Eliminations must report at the tent at the 59th Street lake by 9:30 A.M. sharp. Following the exhibitions and the races, there will be an exhibition hockey game between teams representing Manhattan and Queens and music will be furnished by the Manhattan Concert Band in the morning and the Brooklyn Con- cert Band in th-3 afternoon. ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK " JANUARY 3 r d , 1 9 3 6 . TEL. RSGENT 4 - 1 0 0 0 The Henry Hudson Parkway Authority, which is headed by Park Commissioner Robert Moses, received bids today for the construction of the Riverside Drive Connection with the Henry Hudson Parkway at Riverside Drive and Staff Street in the Borough of Manhattan. The contract includes the Riverside Drive Bridge carrying the Henry Hudson Parkway over the access, which will handle southbound Riverside Drive t r a f f i c , and a steel viaduct alongside Riverside Drive which w i l l carry the access drive up to the level of Riverside Drive. A low bid of $277,772 was submitted by P-, T. Cox Contracting Co., 154 Nassau Street, Few York City. This is the l a s t of a series of contracts for the construction of five bridges between Riverside Drive and Riverdale Avenue in the Bronx. This section of Henry Hudson Parkway is being constructed by the Henry Hudson Parlept 24th'.at 5:30 P.M. . 4 Page 26 9/25/56 - 500 - Introduction of football in Randalls' Island 9/26/36. -10/1/36 - 501 - Opening of 4 new playgrounds - Fort try on pkj S^tuy. Square Pkj Tompkins square Pk and Central Park - 10/2/36. · · ' x 10/2/36 -. 502 - Unveiling of Sophie Irene Loeb Memorial at Hechscher Pig. 10/3/36. TOlOSi.nQLO/3/36 - 505 - Comm. Moses statement regarding!budget. 10/5/36 - 504 - H swimming pools converted into playgrounds. · » ' . ·» 10/6/36 - 505 - B.Somervell's reply to Comm.Moses1 request for $2,000,000 relief approp. 10/7/36 - 506 - Handicraft exhibit of park playgrounds at Mullaly Keer. Building. , 10/6/56 - 507 > - Hew Recreational areas which have been developed from the swimming s pools to be open 6 days pr wk - acct.of shortage of personnel. ' ·· 10/8/36 - 508 - Comm. Moses' statement to press regarding resignation from Worlds Fair C"^y r · ------- ^ l 10/15/56 - 509 - Repairs and restoration of 7th Reg. Memorial on 5th Ave. & 65th St. , 10/21/36 - 510 - Presented to the Zoo - Black bear - by il .O.R.Kelly. . 10/26/36 - 511 - Swimming pools to be converted into play areas. f .10/23/36 - 512 - Hallowe'en to be celebrated. on«$all-Uentrux Park, 10/30 at 6 P-.irt. 10/29/36 --513 - Chrysanthemum show - Prospect Paric greenhouse . ·> 10/3J/36 - -14 - Marine Parkway Autiicrity -'bids en contract ii%. 10/30/36 * 515 - Stover Memorial dedication en $ov.x 5th at 3s SJ P.Ji. ia Ueatrai i'ark 11/2/36 - 516 - Social dancing in various regreuti.n areas starting 11/5/36. , "' J' 11/7/36 - 517 - Opening of 4 new playgrounds By the Park ^epart;*snt il/ii/36 - SIS - Open 2 new playgrounds in the Bronx on Wov.li, i936 il/12/36 - 519 - Interboro roller skating contest in Central Park Hov.14,1936 11/16/36 - 520 - Survey of concessions maiie'by'Parks Department · 11/16/56 - 521 - Bids for reconstr.of 4U0J ft, of Grand C.Pkwy .Extension'of F,Meadow rk. 11/19/36 - 522 - resaapti n of work on «s4af r in'e Park, Staten islancf r ll/lS/36 - 523 - Received two oceibts in Zoo froj M.O.^.Uomez of Columbia,. S.-a. · f 11/13/36 - 524 - 3rd annual inspection of Cjivil Service personnel and equipment 11/20 36 - 525 - Open.new pluy^round in Manhattan 86th St. and ^.corner of Gr.liawn. ll/2"l/56 - 526 - 10 municipal .gplf courses to be closed Uov. 29th, 1936. · ' · " / · : · V ·· · . . · · . / ' · · :. ? ~. Page. 27 · " " ' ^ 11/24/36 - 527 - Bids opened by State Dept.of P.Works in Albany, 'tor. construction of bridge to carry the L.I.ft.R.over the E.Serviceftd.influshing Meadow Park, Queens. 12/4/56 - 528 - Open.of new Geo.Cromwell Recr.Centre on Pier 6, Toapkinsviile, S.I. 12/4/56 - 529 - Open.of 1 new playground, 2 redesigned and reconstructed playgrounds another section of new playgr.previously opeaed and 2 reconstr. park areas. ·v 12/11/36 - 530 - Bids received for the constr.of bridge to carry Northern Blvd. over ' the east Service Rd. of the Gr.Central Pkwy.Extension in .Fi.Meadow Pk. 12/11/36 - 531 - Open. 2 remodeled playgrounds, another section of a new playground - previously opened and 2 renovated buildings 12/11/36 - 532 - Henry Hudson Parkway willvbe opened to public, Dec. 12th. - . 12/19/37 - 533 - Cenreaonies in connec. with" 25 Christ.trees erected in various bores. _. 12/23/36 - 554 - Newspaper playground contest in all the 5 boros. » Ti . - ' · 12/23/36 - 535 - Coma. Reply to Bx. Bd.of i'rade, regarding Bronx Parkways future pxans ,12/30/36 - 536 - Qn 12/31 Park ^ept. open.l new playground,'2nd half of 2 remodelled < playgrounds and additional sections of 2 new play, previously opened. 12/31/36 - 537 - Bids taken for grading and draiuage of a parking field, betw. Northern Blvd. and Roosevelt Ave. in the north" end of Flushing Jeadow Park. I 535* 31A-2 ROBERT MOSES ALLYN R. JENNINGS COMMISSIONER GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM H. LATHAM PARK ENGINEER WILLIAM R. C. WOOD T H E CITY OF NEW YORK SENIOH *·**>< DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL 6 4 T H STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE CENTRAL PARK NEW YORK CITY December 28, 1936 iion. Roderick Stephens, President Bronx Board of Trade 349 Sast 149th Street 3ronx, N.Y. Dear Roderick: You have asked for future city and state parkway plans for the Bronx., These are indicated on the attached map. I must warn you against any assumption that these improvements can be effected over night or that they have as yet been financed. These plans represent the cooperation of a number of city and state agencies authorized by law to proceed with such a program. In all cases, some funds are available at least for plans or preliminary studies. The traffic from Westchester County and points north and east converge like a funnel on the upper boundary of the Bronx 0 Much of this south and west bound traffic is carried over the three Westches- ter County parkways beginning with the Saw will River Parkway in the west, the Bronx Hiver Parkway, and the Hutchinson River Parkway,, It is proposed to build an entirely new parkway spur from the Henry Hudson Parkway in Van Cortlsndt Park to the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, and by way of the reconstructed kosholu Parkway to a junction with the Bronx River Parkway in Bronx Park. The Bronx River Parkway is proposed to be reconstructed from 233rd Street to Gunhill Road and thence, on an entirely new line, will be extended south through Bronx Park, bordering the east side of the Botanical Garden and the Zoo- logical Park. From the southern,boundary of Bronx Park, the parkway will follow the Bronx River on new right-of-way to be acquired and will bring the combined Saw Mill and Bronx River traffic to Eastern Boulevard, This artery, uogether with Whitlock Avenue, has already been improved as a Triborough Bridge connection. Construction will be completed next year on the extension of xiutchinson River Parkway through Pelham Bay Park to Eastern Boulevards This widened improved artery will .serve as a fairly adequate bridge con- nection for some time; but in the future a parkway connection should be built as nearly as possible along the oast and southeast shore front of the Bronx to relieve city streets of tho burden of traffic induced by the Triborough and Whitostone bridges,, Tho location of this new parkway is oeing studied and preliminary plans for it are being made. · - 2 - Hon. Roderick Stephens, President December 28, 1936 Another arterial improvement which will have a great effect on Bronx traffic is the extension in 1937 of the Henry Hudson Parkway- south through Fort Washington and Riverside Parks, to connect at 72nd Street with the express highway constructed by the Borough President of Manhattan. Another improvement, for which funds have already been pro- vided by the Public Works Administration, is the westerly approach to the Triborough Bridge, on which construction by the Borough President of the Bronx will commence early in 1937. In connection with the reconstruction of the Bronx River Parkway through Bronx Park, the New York Botanical Society is transferr- ing to the Department of Parks approximately one-third of the land under itr- jurisdiction, while the New York Zoological Society is ceding an additional strip of land along its oast boundary. In neither case is the property to be transferred to the Park Department actively used by the Society. In the north portion of the Bronx Botanical Garden it is proposed to use all the transferred land for recreational purposes. Cordially, Commissioner DEPARTMENT OF PAF ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK TEL. RESENT 4-1000 1 ^ <5L , / I For RdpMSP. DECEMBER 2 3 , 1936 During the past two years children attending playgrounds of the Department of Parks have edited and published monthly playground newspapers. This newspaper contains various items of interest to the children and parents of each particular recreational area. In an endeavor to stimulate and increase the enthusiasm of the children in the monthly publication the Park Department decided to hold a contest each year at which a banner will be awarded to the playground submitting the best newspaper. Also, certificates of award will be pre- sented to those playgrounds which, in the estimation of the judges, merit second and third places. This year the playground newspaper contest is scheduled to take place at the Roosevelt Playground, Chrystie & Hester Street, on Tuesday, December 29th, at 4 P. M. The supervisors of recreation in each borough have been re- quested to select the newspaper publications which are most representative of playground activities in their respective boroughs. Men prominent in the field of journalism will act as judges. In appraising the newspapers the following points will be considered: 1. Content; mainly art work, special stories, news, features - 60$ 2» Style; English and treatment of subject 30$ 3. Originality 10$ DEPARTMENT OF PAF ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK t For Release SATURDAY . T«L. REGENT 4-1000 DECEMBER 19TH. The Park Department announced yesterday that ceremonies in connection with the twenty-five Christinas trees, which are being erected and decorated in the parks of the five boroughs, will take place on Monday, December 21st at 4:45 P. M. A special program will be held at the principal trees in each borough, which will be at City Hall Park, Manhattan; Borough Hall Park, Brooklyn; Joyce Kilmer Park, The Bronx; King Park, Queens; and Borough Hall, Richmond. At City Hall Park the ceremonies, which will be broadcast over TJNYC, will start at 5:00 P.M. Mayor LaGuardia will preside at the exercises and throw the switch that will light the tree at 5:15 P. M; starting officially New York City's observance of the Christmas season. An address will be made by Borough President Samuel Levy, Selections will be played by the Department of Sanitation band, and Christmas Carols will be sung by the Police Department Glee Club and the boys* choir of the Sacred Heart Church. Borough Presidents Ingersoll, Lyons, Harvey and Palma will light the trees in their respective boroughs, where exercises will be conducted under the di- rection of the borough Park Directors who have arranged appropriate programs. A special decorative scheme has been designed for the Park Department Head- quarters at the Arsenal in Central Park, the feature of which will depict the Three Wise Men proceeding to the star in the East, centered in a holly wreath ten feet in diameter. The trees will bo lit each evening from 4:30 P.M. to 2:00 A.M. until No?/ Year's Day. Christmas trees will be erected at the following locations: Manhattan - City Hall Park, Broadway and Murray Street Arsenal, Central Park, 64th Street and Fifth Avenue Thomas Jefferson Park, First Avenue and 111th Street Roosevelt Park-Block V-Forsythc and Canal Streets Center Plot-Seventh Avenue and 135th Street Fort Tryon Park - N.E. Flag Pole Terrace, Fort Washington and Northern Avenues Carl Schurz Park, 85th Street and East End Avenue Bronx - Joyce Kilmer Park, 161st Street and Grand Concourse Claremont Park, Claremont Parkvray and Wobster Avenue St. Mary's Park, St. Ann's Avenue and East 144th Street Pelham Parkway, Boston and Polham Parkway North Grand Concourse and Hosholu Parkway Brooklyn - Borough Hall Fark, Fulton and Joralornon Streets Grand Army Plaza,Prospect Park,Flatbush and Vandorbilt Avenues. Leiv Eiriksson Park, 67th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues McCarren Park, Driggs Avenue and Lorimer Street Queens - King Park, Jamaica Avenue and 151st Street ·- Flushing Park, Northern Boulevard and Main Street Forest Park, Park Lane South and 108th Street Highland Park, Jamaica Avenue and Elton Street Richmond - Borough Hall, Bay Street and Borough Place Silver Lake, Victory Boulevard and Forest Avenue (HHD) ; t TOLjIlffi_PEESS For-Release Friday, December 11, 1956 The Henry Hudson Parkway will be opened to the public without formal ceremony on Saturday morning, December 12th. No tolls will be collected on the Henry Hudson Bridge on that day and Sunday. The regular toll of ten cents will be collected beginning Monday, December 14th. The Shore Parkway Extension in Brooklyn will also be opened to motorists on December 12th. Reports on the Henry Hudson Parkway and the V/est Side Improvement, and on the Shore Parkway Extension and Brooklyn Circumferential parkway and boulevard system are enclosed. This information is for release on" Friday, December 11th. ROBERT MCSES 53 w Immediately DEPARTMENT OF P A R l W ^ December 11, 1936 ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK t? ^ I Release j TEL. RESENT 4-1 OOO / I i On Saturday, December ISth, the Department of Parks will open two remodeled playgrounds, another section of a new playground previously opened in part and two renovated buildings. In Brooklyn, in McLaughlin Park at Cathedral Place and Bridge Street, the old comfort station building has been equipped with a new heating plant, new wiring and lighting fixtures. Modern plumbing has been installed and the interior of the build- ing ramodeled to provide up-to-date comfort facilities for men end women and also a large play room for children. The Elephant house of the old Prospect Park Zoo has been converted into a modernized comfort station for men and women. In McCarren Park at Union and Driggs Avenues, the re- modeled play area has sixteen handball courts and a circular roller skating track. At Dry Harbor Road in Juniper Valley Park, Queens, another section of the Juniper Valley Playground will open. The first part, which is for girls' use, was opened earlier this fall. The new play area is for senior boys and has parallel bars, hor- izontal ladders and bars, basketball, volleyball and horseshoe pitching courts. At 46th Avenue end 164th Street, the old Martin's Field Playground has been redesigned and reconstructed. The new design includes a circular wading pool, see-saws, swings, slides, jungle gym, play houses end sftnd tables for younger children, and a large play area with two soft basketball diamonds, basketball, shuffle board, handball nnd horseshoe pitching courts for older children mid adults. end DEPARTMENT OF PARI ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK For Release December 11,1936 TEL. REGENT 4-1OOO Two bids were received this afternoon in the office of the State Department of Public Works in Albany for the construction of a bridge to carry Northern Boulevard over the East Service Road of the Grand Central Parkway- Extension in Flushing Meadow Park* This is the fifth of nine contracts to be let by the State for the construction of basic improvements in the preparation of Flushing Meadow Park for the World*s Fair in 1939. The bridge to be constructed under this contract will consist of seven steel spans. The East Service Road of the Parkway will pass under the center span. The abutments will be concrete treated architecturally in the same style as the concrete work on the Tri-Borough Bridge approaches. This new bridge will tie the boat basin and shore development north of Northern Boulevard to the main portion of Flushing Meadow Park, extending south to Kew Gardens. During the Fair, it will permit the passage of pedestrian and intra-mural traffic under Northern Boulevard. Upon the termination of the Fair, it will give pedestrians a place to pass under Northern Boulevard between the boat basin on the north side and the athletic fields and play areas on the south side. During the course of construction, the trolley tracks and all traffic on Northern Boulevard will be detoured around the south side of the bridge site on a temporary earth fill. The new bridge will carry four lanes of traffic in each direction on Northern Bouleverd, which continues the widening of Northern Boulevard which wes started with the two existing bridges over the Grand Central Parkway Extension. The new widths on Northern Boulevard will be extended to the east along the shore of Flushing Bay to the new bridge to be constructed over Flushing River, and on to Main Street, Flushing, so as to relieve the present congestion of traffic on this artery and to provide ample rocdwsy widths for the heavy traffic expected during the Feir. The two bids received were; fully end di Napoli 0448,376.30 New York City Arthur A. Johnson - Necaro C o r p . . . . . $576,000.00 The engineer's estimate y e s . . . . . . . . . $448,376.50 DEPARTMENT OF PAR! ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK / b r Release December 4 TEL. RESENT 4-fOOO On Saturday, December 5th the Department of Parks will open one new playground, two redesigned and reconstructed playgrounds, another section of a new playground previously opened in part and two reconstruct- ed park areas. In Manhattan, in Highbridge Park at 167th Street and ffiLgecombe Avenue the new playground i s equipped with wading pool, swings, see-saws, slides and jungle gym for younger children and a large play area with hor- izontal bars and ladders, basket ball* hand b a l l , paddle tennis and horse- shoe courts for older Children and adults* At 111th Street and First Avenue in 'i'homas Jefferson Park, the remodeled play area has two hard ball baseball diamonds and can also be used for football, soccer and rugby. In Stuyvesant Park at First Avenue, East 17th Street and Livingston Place, the northeast section of the rehabilitated square will be opened, 'i'his i s a passive recreation area and around i t s two semi-ciruclar walks there will be continous rows of permanent concrete benches. In 'ihe Bronx, at Jerome -ft-venuc and East 161st Street in Macombs Dam Park, an area for passive recreation has been redesigned and reconstruct- ed; in the same park at River Avenue and l a s t 162nd Street, two baseball diamonds and a turf play field which can be used for football, soccer and rugby have boen provided, and are encircled by a four lap to the mile run- ning track. In Brooklyn, at Gerrittsen and Bijou Avenues, in Marino Park, tho socond section of tho Avenue X marginal playground, the f i r s t part of xvhich was completed early t h i s Fall, will be opened. The new play spaco is for senior children and adults and has hand b a l l , paddle tennis, shuffle board and horseshoe pitching courts. DEPARTMENT OF PAR ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK /* > 3 tOV KeleaSP, DftfiftmhRT 4- TEL. REGENT 4-10OO On Monday, December 7th at 8:00 P. M, the Park Department, in cooperation with the office of the Borough President of Richnond, will open to the public the new George Cromwell Recreation Center on Pier 6, at the foot of Arietta Street, Tompkinsville, Staten Island. The interior of the pier- has been remodeled to provide for thr&e basket ball courts, three paddle tennis courts, two volley ball courts, two hand ball courts, two shuffle board courts and badminton. An indoor running track of slightly over six laps to the mile has also been provided- Supplementing these facilities, there will be equipment for high jumping, running broad jumping, wrestling and calisthenics* An area with benches and tables has been set aside for use by those desiring quiet games, such as checkers and chessi There will be free public dancing one night each week, with music furnished by the Division of Music of the Works Progress Administration. There is floor space sufficient to accommodate more than 5000 people. Arrangements are being made to schedule paddle tennis ex- hibitions and also basket ball games with ping-pong matches between the halves, and it is proposed to promote basket ball, paddle tonnis, ping-pong, volley ball and badminton tournaments* Calisthenic classes will be established for business men and women. There are provisions for checking clothes, as well as dress- ing room and shower facilities, nnd the structure will be heated during the hours of supervised play. The recreation center is available for amateur theatricals upon application to tho Park Depr.rtr.icnt at the Clovo Lakes Park office. DEPARTMENT OF PAR * · ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK For Release. November 24,1936 TEL. REGENT 4-1OOO Bids were opened this afternoon by the Chief Engineer of the State Department of Public Works in Albany, for the construction of a bridge to carry the Long Island Railroad over the East Service Road in Flushing Meadow Park, (&ieens. One bid was received from Wilson and English Construction Company, Inc. of New York City for #168,729.00. The engineer's estimate was $178,283.80. The work under this contract consists of the construction of a steel girder bridge with stone-faced abutments, similar to the present bridge which carries the railroad over the Grand Central Parkway Extension. During the construction period, the railroad tracks will be detoured DO the » south around the operation on a temporary f i l l and temporary wood t r e s t l e over the Grand Central Parkway Extension. The East Service Road which win pass under this new bridge will provide a route for intra-mura] bus and pedestrian traffic during the life of the f a i r , between, the main fair development, south of the Long Island Railroad and the bus terminal along the south side of Roosevelt Ave- nue, the New City Parking Field between Roosevelt Avenue and Northern Boulevard and the Boat Basin and excursion boat docks st the south end of Flushing Bay. Upon termination of the f a i r , t h i s service road will become a pedestrian walk to provide communication between the various sections of Flushing Meadow Park which are separated by the Long Island Railroad, Roosevelt Avenue and Northern Boulevard. This is the fourth of nine contracts to be let by the State Department of Public Works for the construction of basic improvements in Flushing Meadow Park in preparation for the 1939 World*s Fair. DEPARTMENT O F PARKS «- >" T ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK For Release Saturday ev TEL. REGENT 4-1000 e n i n g and Sunday Morning Papers Nov. 21 & 22,1936 'i'he Department of Parks announces that the ten municipal golf courses will close after the play on Sunday, November 29th. i'his has been decided upon because of the earlier winter conditions prevailing this year, combined with the necessity for protecting the greens and fairways which have been s»*dad and sodddd within the last twelve months. Play over them with con- ditions of alternate freeze and thaw would be injurious, and the resultant damage would retard the date of opening in the spring* ihe small deiaand at this time for the year is another factor which determined the closing date of the courses, which, as well as other revenue facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks, are run on a self-sustaining basis Which re- quires the income to be sufficient to pay the cost of maintenance and operstion. End S' DEPARTMENT OF ^_ NoV 2Q ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK For Reid/ISP. * » TEL. R E S E N T 4-1OOO ' The Department of Parks will open in Manhattan one more new playground on Saturday, November 21st. This will make a total of one-^hundred and eighty-seven new playgrounds, added to the Park Department recreational system since the beginning of the present administration, while twenty-six of the one-hundred and eight playgrounds, which were in the park system prior to January 1, 1934, have been completely reconstructed and modernized. The new playground, which is for older children, is located south of 86th Street in the northeast corner of the Great Lawn, formerly occupied by the old reservoir. The play area includes basketball, hcrseshoe and paddle tennis courts, game tables and horizontal ladders, while surrounding the play spaces is a 20 ft. wide elliptical roller-skating track of concrete, eight laps to the mile. The opening of this playground completes the development of 32 acres of park land which has been torn up since the reservoir was drained six years ago. The center of the Great Lawn area is developed into a tree-studded oval meadow surrounded by a promenade connected with the adjacent park path system. In the lower end, just north of the 79th Street transverse road, and at the foot of the rocky prominence upon which the Belvedere stands, is a new two-acre lake, the sloping banks of which have been planted with Japanese cherry trees and other flowering shrubs. Another playground for small children in the northwest corner of the Great Lawn was com- pleted and opened in the summer of 1934. End DEPARTMENT OF PAR ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK For Release November 19,1956 TEL. RESENT 4-IOOO The Park Department, on Friday, Novenber 20th at 10:00 A. M., will hold its Third Annual Review of its Civil Service personnel and equipment, on the Sheep Meadow, vrtiich lies between 66th and 69th Streets east of the West Drive in Central Park. The Manhattan Borough forces, which won the Gold Star for appearance and record during the year 1935, will be in the front rank. Competition for the Gold Star, which was won the first year by the Borough of Queens, is much keener this season than in former years. The various borough units have been holding inspections, replacing worn uniforms and repairing and painting the motorized equipment. The inspection will be a routine affair, giving park execu- tives an opportunity to look over the combined forces and men from the various boroughs a chance to meet and renew acquaintances. As a skeleton force must be left in the parks, particularly to operate comfort stations, playgrounds, revenue producing facilities and borough offices, approximately twenty-four hundred of the regular civil ser- vice maintenance and operations force will be present. Included in the ranks will be foremen, laborers, mechanics, gardeners, climbers and pruners and men and women playground directors. There will be 110 pieces of equipment, or 33-1/3$ of the de- partment's total in the review. One of the tree movers, as part of the ceremo- nies, will be used in planting a five inch pin oak. COPY PAKK Arsenal, Central Park Telephoned t o City News Association Tel. R%ent 4-1000 11-18-36 Mr. C. Inrieo Gomez lias a raacli In Coltuabia, S,A# -- donated turo ocelots t o the Zoo, Saturday, Novenfljer 14th one of TJhieli i s s l i g h t l y lame in the front leg, otherwise they a r e In good health and nice specimens. They have been put on exhibition in the Antelope House. -ond- sxz DEPARTMENT OF PAR! ^ ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK ·v/ For Rp.lp.asP. Hovember 19, 19Sf TEL. RESENT 4-1OOO The Baric Departiaent announces that work on the development of Marine Park, Staten Island resumed last week. The City of Now York is acquiring title to S4 acres of pri- vately owned land on Oakwood Point by purchase and condemnation. The ac- quisition of this land, with an assessed valuation of $171,850, is necessary to dlose the water gap between Crookes Point on Plum island and Oakwood Point on the mainland and to prevent infiltration of sand into the 370 acres yacht basin, which will be formed by the L-shaped bulkhead to be constructed. This yacht basin will undoubtedly stimulate the formation of new local yacht clubs and bring thousands of pleasure craft and sunnier visitors to this new Marine - . / Playground. Contracts for the sheet piling and equipment, such as tug- boats, scows, pile drivers, tenders, compressor and hydraulic dredge, have been let, with $25,000 of the cost furnished by the city and the balance furnished by the Works Progress Administration, which is also supplying all the labor. As part of the development, 5,500 linear feet of steel sheet piling bulkhead is being added to the 2,300 linear feet of bulkhead pre- viously placed on Crookes Point. After the bulkheading is completed hydraulic fill will be placed against its ocean side as a protection from seaward wave act ion. END DEPARTMENT OF PARH ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK ^ ,.1G>19S6 N u TEL. RESENT 4-1000 ' The Department of Parks received bids this afternoon for a contract for the reconstruction of 4000 feet of thG Grand Central Parkway intension, in Flushing Meadow Park, between the Long Island Railroad tracks and Horace Hard- ing Boulevard! ihere were eight bids submitted, '±'he lowest bidder was the Harlem Contracting Company who submitted an estimate of #194,270.50; i'he next two bidders were Johnson, Drake & Piper of Froeport, L.I.., and John Meehan & Sons of New York City who submitted bids of #208,113.90 and $209,829.60 respectively, 'ihe engineer's estimate was #240,126.00. 1'he work under the contract will consist of the construction of a temporary detour along the west side of the parkway, the paving of the parkway itself with permanent concrete pavement, and grading, topsoiling and seeding the slopes on each side of the parkway, The present pavoment in this section of the parkway, constructed by the State Department of Public Works, was made of temporary materials because, at the time it was built, the requirements of the World's Fair Development were not known, ' -'· 'he new concrete pavement will be constructed at a grade averaging ten feet lower than the present grade, so that the parkway will be depressed below the general grade of the Fair Develop- ment on each side, and so that bridges can be constructed between the two largest units of the Fair Development at grades which would not discourage passage from one part of the Fair to another. J-'he detour will be constructed of bituminous concrete of substantially the same character as the temporary pavement with which the parkway is now surfaced. H&lf of the detour is located within the area leased by the Fair Corporation and w i U be left in place on the termination of this contract to form part of the road system of the Fair. Construction is to be coupleted by May 1st,. 1937* Sid y"*'i '- -- ··i · · * DEPARTMENT OF PAR 0 NOVMBER 16,1936 ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK TEL. REGENT 4-1OOO Some interesting facts have been established by the Department of Parks as a result of a survey of the concessions now operated under its jurisdiction. This study was made to determine the results of the policies introduced by the present ad- ministration in 1934. One of the many major problems which confronted the Department was the solution of the difficulties arising from the granting of concessions within the City's parks. To quote the words of Commissioner Moses in a memorandum on the sub- ject · "The smaller concessions seem to have been parceled out to the aged, the blind, the lame and the needy, and to war veterans -- wounded or unwounded . . . irrespective of the need of the concessions or the ability of the concession- aire to render adequate and sanitary service . . . The large concessions were, for the most part, let at public bidding. This did not prevent favoritism. In practice, it prompted aid abetted ·tartckery." In short, the old policy was based entirely on favoritism and political expediency rathor than upon the service which the concessionaire was able to render the public. The new policy, which is predicated on the principle that the public must be served well, and that the revenue shall be fair to the City and the concessionaire alike, provides that all agreements must be in the form of licenses rathor than leases. This makes it imperative for concessionaires to abide by the terms ofth© agreements or be removed by the Commissioner. It is the policy of the present administration to issue no licenses extending beyond the term of its administration, except in instances where concession-; aires have entered into license agreements and made corresponding commitments,and hava not been established sufficiently long to clear their capital outlay, or where excep- tionally good service has been rendered. The large concessions within the parks now pay their rent as a fixed per- centage of their gross receipts rather than as definitely stipulated sums. This practice has worked well, in that il places no hardship on concessionaires when busi- ness is dull nor does it deny the department its fair share when business is at a peak, Most of us remember how the parks were formerly overrun with peddlers selling all kinds of items from shoo strings to ice cream. Sanitary conditions were then at a low ebb, but itinerant facilities are now officially provided, and properly supervised. · -- Newly designed, gay colored food carts, euphemistically called carret- tinass have been placed in the larger parks -- approximately ono hundred have boen put into service Laden with candy, cakes, cigars, cigarettes and souvenirs, they are as inviting and adequate as the old basket of the peddler was unwholesome and unsatis- factory. The old type of news stand, ugly in design and poorly arranged, has been replaced by thoroughly modern stands which do not offend good taste and which provide better service. Incidentally, these news stands, now located only at subway entrances and exits, are bringing increasing revenue to both the City and the concessionaire. Modern news stands have been placed in Greeley Square, Battery Park and Bryant Park, Manhattan; in Crames Square, Bronx, and on Roosevelt Avenue, Wueens0 In former years it was the policy of the Department to issue permits for ground rentals, to make leases with private clubs serving only those who were members and to give approval, by silence, to squatters building unsightly sheds as their homes on park property. These conditions have been entirely eliminated and today no enter- prises are located on park land which oro not conducted for the convenience of the entire public. This involved the cancellation of 1,741 permits. New cafeteria buildings were erected within the Cuntral Park and Prospect Park Menageries, and the old Sheopfold in Central Park was remodeled into a restaurant along the lines of an English tavern. New facilities at Clove Lakes Boathouse, in Richmond, and at Kissena Park Golf Course in Queens have been provided and the old oyster bar at Jeanette Park, on South Street in Lower Manhattan has been rebuilt to give better aceonmodations to its patrons. The club house at Pelham Buy Golf Course contains a thoroughly modern restaurant having tables on its terrace overlooking Long Island Soundc Food is also sold on the terraces of the eleven new swimaing pools, ' i'l te net income from concessions in 1933 was §252,000 although there was #292,000 in charges, The remaining $40,000 was uncollected until 1934 when it was possible to recover approximately #4,400 or 11%. - Tne remaining $35,600, or 89%, was practically uncollectable and has already been partially written off,, I:; 1934 the net income was #222,000 but this figure includes the sum recovered from the uncollect- ed debts of the previous year. In 1935 the net income was $184;000» This decrease was due tothe elimination of undesirable concessions and those not serving a park pur- pose, as well as others that were removed to make way for park improvements, It is expected that the revenue will show a steady increase in 1936 and the succeeding yeara beacuse of improved and increased patronage. The concessions in the parks are now on a sound basis of operation. To the City they pay a fair and equitable rental based on their volume of business; and to the citizen and visitor they make available at reasonable prices wholesome food served under carefully supervised and sanitary conditions. DEPARTMENT OF PAR* ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK 4For Release. TMfflPIATELT TEL. REGENT 4-1OOO Juv, 1 The Department of Parks announces that the annual Interborough "Roller Skating Contest" will be held on the concrete roller skating track surrounding the Circle Lawn, 106th Street and the West Drive, Central Park, Saturday, November 14th at 2:00 P. IT. The roller skating area was opened on October 23rd and has proven to be tremendously popular. These finals are the first organized function to be held in the area since its openingi 360 contestants will take part in the following twelve events; the ages of the competitors ranging from eight to over eighteen years. EVHJTS 8 to 10 years - Boys - 50 yard dash it 40 " - Girls 10 to 12 years - Boys - 60 yard dash ir tt it 50 " - Girls 12 to 16 years - 4'-8" and under Boys 100 yard dash it tt ft « _ 4»-8M and under tt tt Girls <·* 70 12 to 16 3rears - 5' -2 M and under Boys 100 yard dash it ft it « - 5<-2"and under Girls 80 it 16 to 18 years ~ Boys - 220 yard dash ft ft M - Girls 110 tt ti Over 18 years - Senior Men 880 yard race ti it if " - Senior Women 440 R o l l e r skates and medals of gold, s i l v e r and bronze w i l l be awarded t o winners with Park Departnent certificates. DEPARTMENT OF PAR! ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK FoT RdeOSB MDVBffilR 11,1956 TEL. REOENT 4-1OOO The Department of Parks will open two more new playgrounds on Wednesday, November 11. This will make a total of one hundred and eighty- six new playgrounds added to the Park Department's recreational system since the beginning of the present administration., Twenty-six of the one hundred and eight playgrounds which were in the park system prior to January 1, 1934, have been completely reconstructed and modernized. In the Bronx, at 181st Street and Ryer Avenue, the new William F. Deegan Playground will have swings, see-saws, sand tables, playhouses and a jungle gym for younger children, and handball courts, play apparatus and a large open play area with a softball diamond for the older children. There will also be a comfort station for men, women and children. This is the first of twenty-four sites recently purchased by the city for playgrounds in thickly populated and neglected areas to be developed and opened to the public. The property was acquired on August 24, 1936. It has been named after the late Major Filliam F. Deegan, former Tenement House Commissioner and World War veteran. At Charlotte Street and Crotona Park East, in Crotona Park, there will be a new marginal playground with a wading pool and play equipment for small children, and handball, volley ball, shuffleboard and paddle tennis courts, a large play area and a soft ball diamond for older children. The area is landscaped and provided with benches. Included in the area is a recreation building with comfort station facilities for men, women and children. # - End - V ·I \ D E P A R T M E N T O F PAK^ ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK TEL. RECENT 4-1OOO . / · / x · / t _ T ^ v ,, , O1X . November 7,1936 The Department of Parks will open--Sowar-more new playgrounds, one new recreation ·£/ A building and two renovated buildings on Saturday, November 7. This will make a total of one*hundred eighty-four new playgrounds added to the Park Department's recreational system since the beginning of the present administration. Twenty-six of the one hundred and eight playgrounds which were in the park system prior to January 1, 1934, have been completely reconstructed and modernized, with twenty- three more to be rebuilt before the end of the year. ^ y"' In Manhattan, at Coluabus Park, Mulberry, Baxter and Park Streets, a new recreation building of granite with slate roof will be opened. It will house comfort stations for boys and girls, a mothers' room and a large play room. In the Bronx, at Van Cortlandt Park South and Broadway, there will be a fully equipped small children's playground, with an oval wading pool 56' x 94' and with benches and shade trees for mothers and guardians. This is the first unit to be completed in a large recreational development, which will include football and baseball fields and a quarter mile running track. In Macomb's Dam Park at 161st Street and Ruppert Place the field house has been completely renovated and modernized. In Brooklyn, at Neptune Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets there will be a wading pool 54' x 96 f , two hard ball diamonds for older boys and see-saws, swings, jungle gym, slides and playhouses for younger children. /At Avenue U between East 58th Street and East 60th Street there will be a play area with two baseball V diamonds and a soccer and football field,/ Also, in Brooklyn at Fort Greene Park, Myrtle Avenue and St. Edwards Street the old comfort station has been redesigned and completely modernized, with facilities for both men and women. y · In Queens a playground under the approach to the Triborough Bridge, at 21st Street between Hoyt Avenue North and Hoyt Avenue South., will be opened. It will be an adult play area with handball, basketball, horseshoe and shuffleboard courts, horizontal bars and ladders. - End - DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE ARSENAL, Central Park ITov. 2, 1936 REGStTT 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces that social dancinc for the public scheduled in the following locations fron 8:30 to 11 P.11. will be held in the sane recreation centers fron 8:00 to 10:30 P.I!, beginning Thursday, November 5th: Tuesdays TJest 134th St. Gymnasium Wednesdays Kullaly Recreation Building, 165th St. and Jerome Avenue Thursdays Highbridge Swinming Pool Building, 174th St- and Amsterdam Avenue Thursdays Picnic House, Prospect Park Fridays Astoria Pool Building, Hoyt Avenue and East River, Astoria i:-rsei.al, Central Park ^ *OK D MeOR iiELSASS - November 2, 1936. Tel: HSgent 4-1000 Jf W On Thursday, November 5th at 3:30 P. 11$, the Department of Parks will hold a ceremony in connection with the dedication of the Stover Memorial at the Shakespeare Garden, east of the West Drive opposite 80th Street in Central Park, Manhattan. Mayor LaGuardia, Park Commissioner Eobert Moses, Dr. John H. Finley, Associate Editor of The New York Times; James K. Paulding, Chairman of the Charles B. Stover Memorial Fund; Jacob S. Eisinger, President of the Charles B» Stover Memorial Association; Joseph M. Price, Treasurer of the Charles B. Stover Memorial Fund; Dr. Jane S. Bobbins, former Director of the College Settlement; Gregory Weinstein and Stanley Baro will speak. The site of the Stover Memorial at the top of the rock outcropping, known in the past as the Bock of Ages, is a particularly fitting location for a monument to Charles B. Stover, who was Park Commissioner of Manhattan and Richmond under Mayor William J. Gaynor from 1910 to 1914. In 1912 Mr. Stover changed the Bock of Age* from a dilapidated stone mass covered with poison ivy to a rock garden with an a r t i f i c i a l stream of water and pools of water l i l i e s , which became a popular point of interest for numerous visitors to the park. Shakespeare Garden, as i t is now known, has been rehabilitated and a circular memorial overlook of granite walls with bluestone walks and platforms and with a large curved seat of highly polished granite, has been erected on the summit of the old Bock of Ages. The Ifemorial was conceived by a group of prom- inent men who gave their time and thought to the formation of the Charles B. Stover Memorial Association, I n c . , which organization collected by donation the funds used in furthering the work and i t s design. The inscription on the seat reads: 1861 Charles B. Stover 1939 Founder of Outdoor Playgrounds Who devoted his l i f e to Public Service In Grateful Recognition 1936 From the Stover Memorial looking westerly over the roof of Central Park's Swedish school-houae, first exhibited in .America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Fair, one obtains an extremely interesting view of the Roosevelt Memorial Wing of The American Museum of Natural History. North of the overlook is the s i t e of the old lower Beservoir, now a 32-acre expanse of lawn with a two-acre lake and with the huge oval meadow encircled with wide walks, tree-shaded and bench-lined. End. DEPARTMENT OF P A F U S i f ^ ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK J ! 1 For Rdp.aSP TEL. REGENT 4-1OOO \ October 30, 1936 This afternoon the Marine Parkway Authority received bids on Contraot No. 9, for work in connection with the Marine Parkway Bridge across Rockaway Inlet, from Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, to Jacob Riis Park, Queens. This contract calls for the construction of two and a half miles of concrete roadway in Jacob Riis Park, an underpass, a bus terminal, incidental drainage and guard r a i l i n g , The major portion of the new road- ways will take the traffic of Rockaway Beach Boulevard from the east boundary of t h e park northerly and westerly around the park, t o the ap- proach to the Marine Parkway Bridge at the northwest corner of the park. The balance of the roadways will form a connection to the new parking field and to the bus terminal adjacent t o the bathhouse. With the completion of these new roadways, the old Rockaway Beach Boulevard or, as i t i s sometimes called, Washington Avenae, through the park will no longer be needed and will be removed t o make way for the new developments and enlargements of the bathing beach. The work under t h i s contract will be completed by May 15th, 1937, so that there will he no interference witht he use of Jacob Riis Park next summer. The engineer's estimate was #237,000., and out of eight bids received the three lowest were: Total Bid U Mill Basin Asphalt Co,, Inc. # 231,802.50 2. Tully & Dinapolit Inc. 247,211.00 3, Johnson, Drake & Piper Co., Inc. 259,907.50 513 PRESS RELEASE SHOW - PROSPECT P I M GREEHHOUSE The annual Fall Chrysanthemum Show will be opened on Sunday, November 1st, 1956, at 10 A.M., at the Prospect Park Greenhouse, Prospect Park West and 9th Street, Brooklyn, M.I. The display, featuring over 4000 pots of Chrysanthemums, will be one of the most magnificent ever staged. The ground bed is laid out in groups of various f oriaations, with the popular, large bloom varieties in all shades of pink, yellow, red. and bronze. Some of the attractive plants in these groupings are the Pocketts in 3 varieties, the Turners in S varieties, John S. Bush, Rise of Day, Melba, Marion Uffinger, Marie De Petres, Earl Kitchener, Mrs. B.D.Spilman, De Inglis, Gaeiy, J.^.Booth, Mrs. Firestone, Grace Sturgis and others. Surrounding the ground bed and banked along the sides of the show house are about 75 of the smaller varieties of chrysanthemums, such as the poapons and anemones. They also come in many shades of bronze, red, yellow and white. Some of the more outstanding chrysanthemums in this class are Titan Tangerine, Norman Pink and Bronze, Mrs. Harrison Craig Orange and Crimson, Betty Eose Pink and lellow, Crimson Glow and Grimson Red. The exhibit will be open every day from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. and the Department of Parks extends a cordial invitation to the public to view the display for the three weeks of its duration. DEPARTMENT O F PAR ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK For TEL. REGENT 4-1OOO October 28,1936 The Department of Parks announces that it will celebrate Hallowe'en on the Mall, 72nd Street, Central Park, Friday evening, October 30th, from 8:30 to 11 P. M. An elaborate outdoor setting is being arranged as a background on the Mall bandstand. This will consist of grinning pumpkins, witches, goblins and skeletons, amid shucks of cornstalks, hay and autumn leaves. The program of the evening will be social dancing for the public interspersed with a variety of acts for their entertainment, viz: Magic Acts by the Park Department Magicians, American country dances, Mass ball game, Egg and Spoon race, Songs and Ducking- for apples. The public is invited to come in costume. The following village trustees have donated prizes for appropriate costumes: Dora Stitch - Tillage Seamstress Sampler Silas Shortweight Village Grocer , Basket of Vegetables Hiram Bellows ' Village Blacksmith Gallon of cider Miranda Taekem Chairman of Village Grange Vegetable Corsage Joshua Hayseed Village grain dealer Pumpkins Bill Cuttcm .. . Village Veterinarian Bale of hay The judges will award the above articles to persons selected for wearing the best:- 1. Funniest costume - Boy 2. Nicest looking costume - Girl w 3* Most unusual - Boy 4. " " ' · - Girl 5. Most Appropriate for Hallowe'en - Boy 6. ·· " " " - Girl All are invited to come to these festivities and enjoy a gala Hallowe'en. DEPARTMENT OF F*.... L ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK " t?i& Kp.le.asp. Wednesday TEL. RECENT 4-1000 December 30, 1936* On Thursday, December 31st the Department of Parks will open one new playground, the second half of two remodeled playgrounds and ad- ditional sections of two new playgrounds previously opened in parto In queens, at Broadway and 78th Street, the new playground is equipped with swings, jungle gyms, sand tables, play houses and a shower basin for small children, and basket ball, hand ball and horse- shoe pitching courts, roller hockey field and a soft ball diamond for older children. The area is designed so that it can be flooded and used for ice-skating in winter. In Forest Park at Myrtle Avenue and 80th Street, the second half of the old Dry Harbor playground, which has been redesigned and re- constructed for girls, is equipped with horizontal bars and ladders$ shuffle board and basket ball courts and a large play area for group games. In Manhattan, in central Park, the reconstructed Heckscher Playground, primarily for children, has been completed with ike excep- tion of the old comfort station building, which is being altered to pro- vide indoor recreation rooms during all seasons. The old wading pool has been redesigned not only to fit more appropriately into its natural location, but also to provide restricted ingress and egrees through a sterilized, chlorinated footbath. The playground has been equipped with swings, slides, see-saws, jungle gyms, horizontal bars and ladders for children, and croquet and horseshoe pitching courts, separated from the children's area, have been included for adults. In Brooklyn, north of Avenue U in Marine Park, two more base- ball diamonds haiiFe been added, making a total of seven in this section of the park,. In The Bronx, at Broadway and Van Cortlandt Park South, six hand ball courts have been added to the large recreational area, which will include football and baseball fields and a one-quarter mile running tracks DEPARTMENT OF ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK ForRdmsp. October 26,193 TEL. RESENT 4-1000 The Park Departments eleven new swimming pools, which wpre converted into active play areas with facilities for shuffleboard, basketball, handball, volley ball, paddla tennis, box ball, punch ball, quoits and group games after the end of the swimming season, afe, proving just as popular as play centers as they were as pool areas. The following is the attendance for .their first month's use from September 24 to October 24, inclusive: Astoria 55,295 Betsy Head 49,574 Colonial 14,895 Crotona , 60s230 Hamilton Fish 33,311 Highbridge ' 59,283 McCarren 39,181 Red Hook 17s710 Sunset , ,,..,..... 24,445 Thomas Jefferson ..« * 22,544 Tompkinsville .» ...·. 9,642 Total 366,110 For the past month intra-play center tournaments, which will end on October 28, have been conducted in handball, basketball, paddle tennis and volley ball, 225 teams are competing in these games and, starting November 2, the winners will compete in an inter-play center city-wide championship for each activity. At the Sunset play center in Brooklyn, John Kelly, a Civil War veteran, 96 years of age, keeps fit by playing handball. Although not competing in the tournament, Kelly challenges any one over 70 years of age to a game of handball. Kelly also claims he was a former baseball player back in 1869 and is anxious to "get back in the game." All the games and tournaments are being conducted under the supervision of competent instructors and coaches, many of whom, former college stars, are now regular park Department employees. The conversion of the bathhouses into gymnasiums is rapidly nearing completion and all will be ready for indoor activities, including social dancing, by the time weather becomes too cold or inclement for outdoor play. Indoor social dancing from 8:30 i>. M. to 11:00 p. M.-will start at Highbridge play center on Thursday, October 29, and at the Astoria play center on November 6. Music will be furnished by the Knickerbocker, Gotham and Colonial dance orchestras from the Federal Music project. - 2nd - \ DEPARTMENT OF PAR ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK · For ATFT.Y TEL. REGENT 4-IOOO October 5, 1936 The eleven swimming pools opened this summer by tho Department of Parks have been converted into playgrounds with f a c i l i t i e s for shuffle board, basket b a l l , handball, volley ball, paddle tennis and various group games. The pools were drained September 20th and on Monday, September 21st, workmen began to construct handball walls, erect stanchions for tennis and volley b a l l nets, and mark out tho various courts. By Thursday, September 24th, this work was completed and at 3:00 P.M. they were opened as recreational areas for children and adults. The pools, popular with children and adults t h i s summer, are proving just as popular now ihst they are open as recreation centers. This i s evidenced by tho number that have used the f a c i l i t i e s since they reopened. Following i s the attendance from September 24th to October 4th, inclusive: Astoria 10,098 Crotona 7,411 Tompkinsville 1,650 Suns et 6,349 McCarron 16,066 Betsy Head 9,161 Rod Hook 4,532 Colonial 3,944 Highbridge 22,735 Thomas Jefferson 7,500 Hamilton -i^ish 6,525 'i'hc games cv^ under the supervision of competent instructors and coaches and teams are being formed at the various pools. Leagues of different age groups are being formed end competitions for league championships will begin as soon as the children are classified into their various age groups. During the summer intor-pool swimming matches wore held and i t i s in- tended that this inter-pool rivalry be kept up this winter with teams of the various sports engaging in competitions with teams from other pools. rjo DEPARTMEHT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL CENTRAL PARK TE: REGENT 4-1000 Through Former Governor Alfred E. Smith, night superintendent of the Central Park Zoo, a black Canadian bear has been presented to the City by Mr. 0. R. Kelly of 768 Horth Street, White Plains, Hew York. While the bear is slightly homesick in his present quarters in Central Park, his diet has not been affected for he eats from six to eight raw eggs daily. ARTMENT OF PARKS f ) \J 4 ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK ~y For Release. TEL. REGENT 4-IOOO October 8, 1936 Apparently there has been some comment on the absence of my name from the list of directors of the World's lair. There is no significance in my recent resignation. This was a routine matter in- volving no difference witn tne corporation or lack of enthusiasm for the Fair. It was necessary to mate a decision at the time the lease became effective and the Fair plan was adopted as to vinetner the man in charge of city and state permanent improvements at Flushing Meadow should also serve as a member of the Board of Directors. It became clear to me that such service might involve conflict of responsibili- ties and I resigned simply to concentrate on the preparation of the site and the permanent improvements which will be part of Flushing Meadow Park. In order tnat there may be no misunderstanding I am at- taching copies of correspondence with Mr* Whalen on this subject. iCBSBT MOSES CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK October 1, 1936 Hon. Grover Whalen, New York World's Fair 1939, Empire State Building, New York City. Dear Grover: Thanks very much for your letterwlth-^e^erence to membership on the Board of o is, however, absolutely final. sed on laek\oR time or enthusiasm, but on the t the interests of the city and state governm as those of the Fair, are best served by my sti sic permanent improve- ments at Flushing Mejtdpw Park. ordi ROBERT MOSES Commissioner. 4 (Copy) NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1939 INCORPORATED EMPIRE STATE BUILDING NEW YORK, N. Y. Office of the President September 30, 1936 Dear Bob: I wish you would reconsider the suggestion you made in your letter of the 28th. You have been such a tower of strength in the formative stages of the Fair Corporation and in all its plans that your name should be indelibly written in the corporate records of the Fair. I fully realize how busy you are and that it would mean a hardship and sacrifice for you to give much time to the actual work of the Fair Corporation, nevertheless, I do hope that you will recon- sider your decision and continue as a member of the Board of Directors. Speaking not as President of the Corporation but as a friend with the deepest admiration for you as a man, as an official, and for your unparalleled achievements. I want to be privileged to sit by your side at the future deliberations Of the Board of Directors of the New York World's Fair 1939. Very sincerely, ,,, ,, ., (sgd) GROVER WHALEN The Honorable Robert Moses Arsenal, Central Park New York, N. Y. CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK September 28, 1936 Mr. Grover Whalen, New York World's Fair 1939, Inc., Empire state Building New York City- Dear Grover: You may recall that some months ago when the question of the approval by the city of the World's Fair lease was in tiehands of the Corporation Counsel, I wrote the Mayor that I did not eve that there was any serious legal question involved in the membersh: of elected or appointed c i t y o f f i c i a l s on your Board of Dire^£Co«a^Or ' he other hand, I said that Mr. Windel's opinion raised a realqtl&&t4^n~xii policy at l e a s t as to the Park Commissioner, and that s" far as i">(ak concerned I would make up my mind about October lstfT^wk^nMihe plan of Nine Fair was ready, whether as a c i t y and s t a t e a f p r c i a l anmediately responsible for the s i t e , I could best serve by r«Spa£ning on Jtije Board, or by concentra- ting on the basic improvements. I have now com' conclusion that, so far as the Fair i s concerned, I o attention to the preparation of the s i t e , and that would b mistaiceXfor me and my staff to have t h e i r a t t e n t i o n diver to the p s for Wie Fair itself, except to the extent that i t i s nece' that | two sets of plans be coordinated, Arrange ments^-£©£, such inatio ave been made and I am sure that they will be qudft^--seAisfactd f will have plenty to do to meet the schedule/r^x the completion^saf--tfee" basic improvements and to assist in every way pn permanent structures and facilities which are to remain as part of \r^ park whe{Tithe Fair is over. Circumstances I am presenting herewith my resigna- tion from th>s^parxi^of Directors. I see no reason why it should have any public notice, because it is merely a routine matter. You will, of course, understand that tnis step involves no loss of interest in and enthusiasm for the Fair, and it simply means that those immediately re- sponsible for the basic improvements will give all their available energy to the early completion of these improvements. With kindest personal regards and continued good wishes for the Fair, Sincerely, /a/ ROBERT MOSES Commissioner ARSENAL BLDG. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE MEW RECREATIONAL AREAS WHICH HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED IN THE EMPTIED SWIMMING POOLS AND IN THE BATHHOUSES WILL BE OPERATED ONLY SIX DAIS PER WEEK, THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ANNOUNCED TODAY. THEY WILL BE CLOSED EACH SUNDAY AS THERE IS ONLY SUFFICIENT PERSONNEL AVAILABLE FOR THE WEEK-DAY OPERATIONS. A.R.JENNINGS. P1ESS NOTICE / The annual Handcraft exhibit, by the children of the park playgrounds, Bronx, will be held at lullaly Recreation Building, last 165th St. and Jerome Avenue. The Manhattan exhibit will be held at Carmine and Varick Street, from October 5th to October 10th. TheK«aibits will be open daily from 1 to 10 P.M., admission free. According to the variety and numer of articles exhibited, it is the best and largest shown in the past eight years. Some playgrounds are submitting projects, Indian Village, Outdoor Camp, 20th Century Modern transportation, Colonial Cottage etc. The Individual exhibits include, chip carving, basketry, soap modeling, dolls of all nations, bead work, crepe paper, model airplanes, paper flowers, party favors, etc. DEPARTMENT OF P A R * ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK f YOV ReleaSP. MfiEDIATELY TEL. REGENT 4.1000 U . S , WORKS PROGRESS ADMINIS'jmTION O c t . 6,1956 FOR THE CITY CF NEW YORK 70 COLUMBUS AVE., N M YORK, N . Y . BREHON SOMSRVELL Administrator October 6, 1936 Honorable Robert Moses, Commissioner, Department of Parks for the City of New York, Arsenal, 64th Street and 5th Avenue, New York, N. Y. Dear Mr. Moses; I have your l e t t e r of October 5th, in vshich you ask whether t h i s office knows of any changes in the Works Progress Administration rules and instructions, and whether arrangements can be made which would permit us to furnish relief personnel at a cost of about $2,000,000 to the City Parks Department for the whole of the calendar year. In reply I must s t a t e that there are no changes in these rules. You must remember that Congress has not yet appropriated funds for the coming year, and hence i t would be impossible to assure you of the expenditure of #2,000,000 or any other sum. Furthermore, the "iiorks Progress Administration does not consider that regular operations and maintenance of City activities ordinarily carried in the budget are a proper W PA function. Sincerely, / s / Brehon Somervell Administrator DIFAR'KBNT OF PARKS w ,· ,, · J * Arsenal, Central Park ML ^Yj^ ^BtOR RELEASE - October 2, 1936. Tel: ISgent 4-1000 ^ B /^ ^·B The Park Department announces the unveiling of the Shphie Irene Loeb Memorial in &»okseh«r Playground, Central Park, tomorrow at 12 noon. Mayor LaGuardia, Governor Herbert H* Lehman, Park Commissioner &>bert Moses and August Bsokscher w i l l speak at the exercises* Music w i l l be provided by the Department of Sanitation Baud. The Memorial consists of a granite pediment rising from a pink granite bowl and surmounted by carved groups of stone statuary representing the famed characters of Alice in Wonderland, with the Duchess playing a prominent part. This sculpture was conceived and executed by I . G. Both and is surrounded by circular granite steps and bluestone walks. At i t s base are drinking fountains for children. Miss Loeb, a newspaper woman and prominent social worker, was instrumen- tal in obtaining a great deal of social legislation for the State sai City of Me w York and also in salting Heokaclier Playground a reality. She was the founder and first president of the Child Welfare Board of New York City. Eeckaoher Playground was originally opened after considerable opposi- tion from individuals and organizations who insisted that no playground was needed la Central Park. Probably the one person who did the most to combat this opposi- tion was Sophie Irene Loeb. Mr* Hecksoherfs generosity was responsible for the actual construction and equipment of the playground, including a wading pool sad a recreation building* Mr* Heoksoher's generosity was again evident by his contribution of #15,000., which paid for the carved figures and bowl at the iaemorial. The granite steps, bluestone Walks, fencing, planting and plumbing were furnished by the Park Department. The redesign of the playground recognizes the original intent of Miss Loeb and Mr. Btckseher that this area should be primarily for younger children* The old wading pool has been redesigned to fit more appropriately Into i t s natural location, and provides for restricted entrances and egress through a sterilized, chlorinated footbath. The ball fields, formerly a mud hole after rainstorms, have been regraded, properly drained, seeded, and will be opened as part of the cere- monies, with an exhibition soft ball game played between the Roosevelt and Annumoiation playgrounds* teams, finalists for the Park Department borough championship. There w i l l be three soft ball and three Junior hard ball diamonds* The present recreation building, primarily a comfort station, Is being remodeled end heated to provids iadoo* recreation rooms faring e l l seasons. DEPARTMENT OF PAR ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK FoT ReleaSP. QctObcr 1 1936 TEL. RESENT 4-IOOO The Department of Parks wi.il open four new playgrounds, a new triangular, gore and five redesigned and reconstructed areas Friday, October 2nd, This will make a total of 177 playgrounds added to the Park Department's recreational system since the beginning of the present administration, and 85 more will be opened to the public before January 1, 1937. Purchase of sites for 25 of these was recently approved by the Mayor and the Board of Estimate. 26 of the 108 playgrounds which were in the park system prior to January 1, T934, have been completely reconstructed and modernized, with 23 more to be rebuilt before the end of the year. In Manhattan, located at Northern and Fort Washington Avenues, south of Fort Tryon Park, there will be a completely equipped small children's play area and also an area with shuffle board, paddle tennis and baseball courts, separated from the playground by a shaded promenade with a double row of benches. At Dyckman Street where Riverside Drive joins Broadway, the safety island has been provided with shade trees and benches for passive recreation. At Stuyvesant Squere Park the south hcflf of the rectangular section west of Second Avenue and bounded by Second Avenue, East 15th Street, Rutherford Place-and.East 17th Street has been redesigned and reconstructed, with the exception of the-central portion, comprising eight percent.of the west half of the park. The area developed includes wide, semi-circular walks, with continous rows of benches. iR,At Tompkins Square Park the north half of the park from Ninth to Tenth Streets between Avenues A and B has been redesigned and reconstructed and includes basket "beXl,- volley ball, shuffle board, paddle tennis and horse-shoe pitching courts^ complete play apparatus and e wading pool. A -v In Central Park two new completely equipped small c h i l d r e n ' s playground w i l l jopen - one at 84th S t r e e t and F i f t h Avenue and t h e other at 93rd S t r e e t and . Central.Park West, completing t h e group of marginal play areas around t h e perimeter - ot Central Park. , In Brooklyn there WP1 be one new and three redesigned -play a r e a s . At V VI Gerrittsen Avenue end Avenue X, in Marine Park, there will be a completely equipped smell children's playground, with wading pool &nd & large soft ball area and basket bell,...shuffle board, peddle tennis, horse-shoe end hand-ball courts for older chil- dren, £.11 fitted into o landsceped scheme including wide walks lined with benches for passive recreation. \ \ Page 2. ^ At Carroll Park, Court end President Streets, the west half of the ·edesigned playground will include basket-ball courts and play apparatus for Ider children. ffT): In Fort Greene Park, at St. Edwards Street and Myrtle Avenue, the redesigned children's garden has been provided with benches under shade trees for guardians of children who v i s i t the area. j 6s In McLoughlin- Park the east half of the park bounded by Cathedral Place, Bridge and Tiiiary Streets will be opened, completing the reconstru- tion of the entire park. The area to be opened includes a wading pool and a large boys' playground with a soft ball diamond. DEPARTMENT OF PAR! ARSENAL. CENTRAL PARK For Release Sept. 25,, 1956. T E L . REOENT 4-1OOO The Department of Parks announces the opening of the Metropolitan College gridiron season and the introduction of football to Randall's Island in the new Municipal Stadium on Saturday afternoon, September 26th, when Manhattan College plays Saint Bonaventure College. Recent bookings for. the Stadium promises a busy fall season and numerous worthwhile football contests between college and professional teams of national reputation. Besides the Manhattan-Saint Bonaventure game, the following bookings have been scheduled: Sunday September 27th - Professional football- NEW YORK YANKEES versus SYRACUSE BRAVES Saturday October 3rd - FORDHAM UNIVERSITY versus FRANKLIN MARSHALL Wednesday October 7th - Professional football - (Night game) NEW YORK YANKEES versus BROOKLYN TIGERS Saturday October 17th - FORDEAM UNIVERSITY versus WAYNESBURG COLLEGE Wednesday October 21st - Professional football - (Night game) NEW YORK YANKEES versus PITTSBURGH AMERICANS Wednesday October. 28th - Professional football - (Night game) NEW YORK YANKEES versus CLEVELAND INDIANS Sunday November 15th - Professional.football - N M YORK YANKEES versus BOSTON SHAMROCKS Sunday November 29th - Professional football - KM YORK YANKEES versus BROOKLYN TIGERS Sunday professional games postponed because of inclement weather will be played at night within the f i r s t three days of the following week and the date announced through tho press. The New York Rugby Football Club is negotiating for several of the open dates, and on Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, negotiations are under way for a double-header between four New York City high school teams. TO REACH RAHDALL'S ISLAND STADIUM Triborough Bridge Approaches at 124th Street and Second Avenue - Manhattan 134trh Street and Cypress Avenue - The Bronx 31st Street and Hoyt Avenue, Astoria - Queens FREE pedestrian walks on bridge from above approaches Bus Fares to Island; 5 cts. from Manhattan and Bronx Approaches and 10 cts. from Queens. Automobiles; Bridge toll for automobiles - 25 cts. for "crip to and from Randall's Island. FREE parking on the Island. BDW TO REACH TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE APPROACHES FRCM MANHATTAN: All north and south bound subway, elevated, trolley end bus lines to 125th Strset, then to Second Avenue by crosstown trolley to 124th Street and Second Avsiue. FROM THE BRONX; Lexington Avenue - Pelhara Bay Parkway line to Cypress Avenue Station, All Bronx trolley lines transfer to Southern Boulevard trolley to 134th Street and Cypress Avenue. FROM QUEENS: B.M.T. and I.R.T. at Queens Plaza station (31st Street and Hoyt Avenue), Astoria. Long Island Railroad to Woodside Railway station, change for B.M.T. or I.R.T. subway going to 25th Avenue Station (31st Street and Hoyt Avenue) Astoria, DEPARTMENT OF PARIS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PAHK TEL: REgent 4-1000 r T ffi · I ' I / F 0 R 1*^080 IAi'S RELEASE SEPSMESR 22, 1936 The Department of Parks announces that 300 children, ranging from eight to fourteen years of age, will harvest their second crop of the season at Betsy- Head Park Farm Garden, Hopkinson and Blake Avenue, Brooklyn, ituirsday afternoon, September 24th at 3:30 o'clock, I'he vegetables, which, donsist of beets, carrots, corn,, swiss-char* and lettuce, were planted during the summer and are ready to be harvested. End DEPARTMENT OF PARKS THE ARSENAL REGENT 4-1OOO wI f FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22nd, 1936 The Department of Parks announces the finals of the first amateur musical instrument contest in the city, which will take place on the Mall in Central Park Thursday evening, September 24, at 8:30 o'clock. The winners of all boroughs in the senior division will compete for special prizes offered for. this evento Contestants have been divided into the following classifi- cations: Class A - Piano " B - Violin, viola,, cello, basso ' " C - Banjo, mandolin, guitar,, ukelele, zither " D - Trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba, mellophane, (alto) bugle ", E - Clarinet, oboe, flute, bassoon, fife, saxaphone, English horn " F - Zylophone. and drums If G - Harp " H - Accordion . . 11 I - Bagpipes and One-man Band " J - Miscellaneous The judges of the contest will be: Judge Leopold Prince, Chairman, Conductor of the City Amateur Symphony Orchestra; Mishel Piastro, Concert Master of the Philharmonic; Leon Barzin, Conductor of the National Orchestral Association; Richard Korn, Assistant Conductor of the Goldman Band; Isidor Achron, piano virtuoso and for over ten years accompanist to Jascha Heifetz; Miss Loa Karena, Finnish soprano; Albert von Boenhoff, pianist, composer, Chairman of the Entertainment Committee of the Bohemians, and judge for the past twelve years of the Music Education League, In addition to the foregoing event, which is for seniors, a Junior Championship Contest will take place on the M^ll Sunday, September 27, at 2:00 P.M. mmmmm Depart,;a.at of I' Arsenal, Central Park t Release Monday, Sept. 21st, 1936 Telephone: Regent 4-1000 ffj The Department of Parks announces the closing of twelve swimming pools on September 20th. They are being converted into active play areas and will be reopened for use on September 24th. Ten of these were newly opened this year, and of the other two, previously operated by the Department, oiBhas been entirely re-constructed. Receipts of $175,105.45 have not balanced the expenditures of $195,598.71 but the fact must be taken into consideration that this latter figure included an item of #41,767.25 for permanent equipment, which will not need replacement for some time. Up to September 19th, 1,790,382 persons have used the pools, of which 604,405 were children who had been admitted free on week day mornings. While the normal operation of these pools will be from May 30th to the third week in September, the first of the new pools was opened on June 20th and the last one on August 15th, and at the Red Hook and Colonial Pools the dressing facilities were only half completed when opened to the public. The total days of usage of all pools was only 47.67 percent of the normal swimming season. Revenue was obtained on the basis of a charge of 10 cents for children under 14 years of age and 20 cents for adults. The following tabulation shows the number of days operated, and the percentage of normal season for which each pool was open to the public during 1936: Days Percentage Fnber Pool 104 83.5 Hamilton Fish 80 64. Thos. Jefferson 77 61.67 2» Days Percentage Astoria 71 56.8 Highbridge 59 47.2 Tompkinsville 66 52.8 Sunset 53 43.4 Crotona 49 39.2 McCarren 43 34.4 Betsy Head 45 36. Colonial 33 26.2 Red Hook 35 28. Immediately after the closing of the pools, crews of workmen started emptying the water, cleaning the walls and converting the pools into areas where large boys and girls may participate in active games. These new play areas will provice facilities for playing at one time 47 games of paddle tennis, 50 games of shuffle board, 10 volley ball contests, 12 basketball games, and 44 handball matches. Numerous other playground games and athletic activities may also be conducted within these areas. The children's wading pools will be used by small children of pre- school age for kindergarten games until 3 o'clock each day. After school hours these areas will be used exclusively for roller skating rinks by boys and girls of elementary school age. The sun decks adjoining the pools will be used by mothers and children for passive recreation. All areas will be lighted for evening activities and the facilities will be available for boys and girls who are employed during the day time. HU DEPARTMENT OF PASES CBHTRAL PARK fit » # i *" FOR DfiflEBlATE RELEASE TEL. REGENT 4-1000 September 19, 1936 The Department of Parks announces that a Water Carnival will be held on the 72nd Street Lake, Central Park on Tuesday, September 22nd at 8:30 P.M., in cooperation with the Folk Festival Council. Participants representing each of the five boroughs of the City of New Xork and nine foreign countries will row out, in gaily decorated boats, to the stage, which is being especially constructed on the lake for this oc- casion. A program of dances, including a modern ballet by the Playground dir- ectors of the Department of Parks, will be presented. Folk dances, by play- ground children, as well as the age-old dances of Finland and Estonia, the gay Tarantella of Naples aa* a dance of Thessaly will be performed. The program will open with songs by members of the Park Depart- ment Quartet and Glee Club, followed by the modern ballet. Then the three children's groups which won first prises in the Folk Dance competition for playground groups, will datce a Russian, a Polish and a Scottish dance. The Folk Festival Council's share of the program will start with a Polka by all the dancers; then the Ukranian Dancers' Club will demonstate Solomeyka and Akran. The Finnish dancers of Imatra will swing through their flirtatious Sappo, which has ended in an engagement for many a Finnish maiden. The Esthonian Education- al Society will sing to lovely old tunes. The Swiss Folk Dance Society will do the dance of the "Three Leather Stockings." The Lithuanian Lyrates will do a harvest dance that goes back to pagan times* The Polish Folk Dance group will dance; also the Greek daughters of Terpsichore; and the Coro d1Italia will ' sing and dance, bringing the program to a close. The Hudson concert band, a unit of the Workds Progress Administration Music Division, under the direction of Pasquale Acito, will play for the Carnival. DEPARTS TINT OF PARKS ARSENAL BUILDING V\[ 1 "M * FOR MEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 18, 1936 The Department of P a r k s , Division of R e c r e a t i o n , announces t h a t a c h i l d r e n ' s o r c h e s t r a l concert w i l l be given on the H a l l , C e n t r a l Park, Sunday, September 20 a t 1:30 P . M. The o r c h e s t r a was f i r s t organized t h e e a r l y p a r t of June with a proup of about f i v e c h i l d r e n . I t grew quickly u n t i l a t t h e present time i t c o n s i s t s of 2G c h i l d r e n who play v i o l i n s , v i o l a , c e l l o , piano, saxaphonc, c l a r i n e t and f l u t e . They have been r e h e a r s i n g i n neighborhood playgrounds in p r e p a r a t i o n for t h i s occasion. The ages of t h e c h i l d r e n vary t o a great e x t e n t , t h e youngest being eight years and. t h e o l d e s t eighteen y e a r s . The program w i l l c o n s i s t of compositions by Mozart, Shubcrtj Beethoven, C-rico, P l c y e l and Brahms. The two s o l o i s t s of t h e after- noon are Joan Cluck, 7-year old v i o l i n i s t , who w i l l play "Mighty Lak' a Rose" and Robert Brit.:-.-, .IS-y^ar old v i o l i n i s t , who w i l l play "Czardas" by Monti. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS . ^jOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK A \* & M " ^PPTEMBER 14TH, 1936 REGENT 4-1000 The second annual competition among the city's best Barber Shop quartets, euphemistically styled as the American Ballad Contest by its sponsor, the Department of Parks, will take place at 8:30 P. M. tomorrow even- ing, Tuesday, September 15th, 1936j at the new Randall's Island Municipal Sta- dium* Admission will be free. The same stage which was used for the recent run of light opera has been left in place and will be set to depict a quiet corner of New York in the early 1900-s. Flickering gas street lamps will illuminate the shop fronts of which the neighborhood barber shop will be a focal point* A cigar store, a pawnbroker's emporium and the inevitable corner saloon, behind whose swinging doors the passerby is informed he can obtain the largest in town for 5 cents, make up the rest of this minor civic center. ·The time of action is a warm Saturday evening in the suamer of 1904, too early in the season for those flamboyant single-sheets later to be indiscriminately plastered over the store fronts in the heated presidential Campaign. On this particular evening the citizenry seem more interested in hair- cuts and song than on the relative merits of Judge Parker or Colonel Roosevelt. As groups emerge from the busy barber shop (or in some cases from behind the swinging doors) they will break into harmony of the closest, most tear-jerking variety· A group of prominent neighborhood figures, who may be identi- fied on closer inspection as Mayor La G-uardia, former Governor Alfred E. Smith and Park Commissioner Robert Moses, occupy ancient chairs at one side, where they confer frequently with their neighbors on the relative merits of the merry song- sters. These other critical listeners are Sigmund Spaeth, the famed Tune Detective; Luther C. Steward, the noted collector of early American Ballads; Mark Andrews; widely-known. American conductor and Cesare Sodero, eminent musi- w Sheet Two - Release Basher Shop Quartets cian and composer. Each group of singers, appropriately garbed in the dress of the period, is a quartet of the highest virtuosity selected by previous elimination contests in each of the five boroughs of the city. Sparrow cops, obese barten- ders, Chinese laundrymen, ragged newsboy urchins, dirty-faced bootblacks and fashionably dressed dandies of the period complete the scenic bacicground while the quartets render the dear, old melodies of a past generation. After all of them have sung their selections, ranging from "Wait 'til the Sun Shines, Nellie," to "Sweet Adeline," the critics, keen of ear to the blending of tenor, bass and baritone strains wafter over 15,000 opera chairs and bleacher benches filled by the attending public, again will go into serious huddle and determine the first, second and third place winners of the 1936 championships, Ihere will be added features galore to the gay and rollicking scene, including a mammoth parade of the contestants who will circle the cinder track on tandem bicycles, open barouches, victodias, landaus, hansom cabs and a bevy of snorting, coughing one and two-cylinder horseless buggies so fearlessly driven by the linen-duster dare-devils of the period. Another outstanding presentation will be musical selections rendered by Diane Gaylan and itobert shafer, leading stara.of the San Carlo opera Company. Pierre de Beeder will accompany these players who thrilled a half million with their magnificent operetta performances at Jones Beach state Park and Randall's Island this summer. Community singing lead by Harry Barnhart, will be indulged in by the general public following the contest of quartets. A special municipal quartet contest in which harmony foursomes from the Park, Fire and Sanitation Departments and from Jones Beach State Park will vie for a huge silver trophy, will furnish another added attraction, llie Fire Department Brass Band will furnish music during the festivities. Sheet Three--Release Barber Shop Quartets To reach the site of this eye and ear filling extravaganza, the public may use the Triborough Bridge via buses from Manhattan at 124th Street and 2nd Ave., from the Bronx at 134th Street and cypress Avenue, and from Queens at 31st street and Hoyt Ave. Bus fares from the Bronx and Manhattan are 5 cents and from Queens 10 cents. A toll charge of 25 cents for automobiles is levied by the Bridge Authority. This charge includes trips to and from the Island. Parking for 6,000 cars is free on the Island. Pedestrians may use the Bridge, walks, from all approaches without charge. # # # DEPARTMENT OF PASK3 W M *m FOB IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL* CENTRAL PARK li # *J TEL: REGENT 4 - 1OOO T (^ SEPTEMBER 12, 1936 In addition to the gold, silver and bronze medals that will be awarded to competitors who finish first, second and third in each event at the municipal swimming and diving championships, which will be held at the Astoria swimming Pool, 19th Street and 23rd Drive, Astoria, Queens on Sun- day, September 13th at 2j30 p. M», Mayor LaGuardia has donated a silver cup. This cup will be awarded the department winning the most points. The park Department, which is conducting the meet in coopera- tion with the Mayor's committee on athletic activities, has also offered a mounted silver plaque to the winning department. With over 200 entries received from the Law, Health, Hospital, Police, Fire, Sanitation, Plant and Structures, correction, public Welfare and parks Departments and Board of Education, a spirited rivalry is anticipated for the team prizes, as well as keen competition in the individual events. George Fissler, former national swimming champion, now working for the Department of Sanitation, will compete in the open events. In the Old Timers championship, open to employees who have been in the City employ at least twenty years, several well known swimmers of another era have entered. Among the entries for the Life Guard championship, open only to Pool Operators and Life Guards, are numerous former college swimming stars, including George cronin of the Park Department, national life guard champion in 1935 and runner up for this title in 1936. While the usual fee of 10 cts. for children under 14 years of age and 20 cts. for adults will be charged those using the swimming facilities, there will be no charge for spectators whouay desire to witness the swimming and diving events. September 12, 1956 Owing to the continued warm weather the Department of Parks announces that tie twelve swimming pools would remain open until Sunday, September 20, but the hours of operation will be from 1 P.M. to 6 P.M. only from Monday to Friday, with the Saturday and Sunday hours unchanged. No morning free periods - because of school reopening. c DEPARTMENT OF PARK& J O R iiiiEASE ti f ARSENAL, CENTRAL « . , ^ g u s t 2 1 , 1936 / TE: REGENT 4-1000 it I The Department of Parks opened one new playground and one redesigned and reconstructed play area today, August 21st. The new area makes a total of 173 new playgrounds added to the Park Department's recreational system since the beginning of the present admin- istration, and 89 more will be opened to the public before January 1, 19S7. Purchase of sites for 25 of these was recently approved by the Mayor and the Board of Estimate. Twenty-four of the 108 playgrounds which were in the park system prior to January 1, 1954, have been reconstructed and modernised with 25 more to be rebuilt before the end of the year. When the present program is completed, there will be a total of 349 playground areas under the jurisdiction of the Park Department. In Macombs Dam Park, the Bronx, the reconstructed area, located north of East 158th Street, between Exterior Avenue and the New York Central tracks, will contain twenty handball courts, eight of which will be opened to the public immediately. The new playground located between West 58th and West 59th Streets, East of Eleventh Avenue, Manhattan, was obtained by permit from the New Amsterdam Gas Compaay. When completed, it will have three basketball, four horseshoe pitching and six double handball courts} a large soft ball diamond and a large earth surface play area. All of these facilities will be com- pleted for the opening except the handball courts, which will be finished at a later date. The opening of this area was marked by soft ball games between two ball teams representing the Roosevelt and Annunciation playgrounds in the Park Department's Junior Soft Ball League. Frequent games have been scheduled for the balance of the season between teams of the Park Department Playground League. This playground will be of particular value to Haaran High School which adjoins it. () DEPARTMENT OF YAMS FOH BlviEDIATE RELEASE AJSSENAL, CEwTBAL PAtfR SEPT. 10, 1936 The State Department of Public Works received bids today on the bridge which will carry .Roosevelt Avenue vehicular traffic over the East Service Road of Flushing Meadow Park, Q,ueens, the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair, The I.fi.T. tracks of the Flushing Division which are over floosevelt Avenue will remain in their present position. The plans for the structure, which will have stone-faced abutments and a double steel span, were prepared by the Department of Parks. Bids were received from only two concerns and were as follows: John Meehan & Son, New York City ^154,733.80 E. L» Korth, Islip, Long Island 201,515.80 The Engineer's estimate for the work was ^156,636.80. Both bidders were pre-qualified under the rigorous standards of the State Department of Public Works. The East Service .Road, which this bridge will span, con- sists of two strips of 22' concrete pavement and lies directly East of Grand Central parkway Extension, It will become the major access to the Fair site from the Flushing Bay Boat Basin and the municipally operated parking space which will accomodate 11,500 vehicles. This bridge is scheduled to be completed by May 1, 1937, DepartmentTM Parks Arsenal> Central Park For Release 9-6-56 The Park Department announces a series of Community Singing Programs to be given every Sunday afternoon at 3:50 P.M. on the Mall in Central Park. Harry Barnhart, well-known director of Community Singing Groups will conduct this feature. " TKLr s · The municipal swimming and diving championships w i l l be held a t Astoria Pool, 19th S t r e e t and 23rd Drive, A s t o r i a , Q,ueens on Sunday, September 13th a t 2:00 P.M. The Department of Parks is cooperating with the Mayor's Committee on a t h l e t - ic a c t i v i t i e s in t h e conduct of t;iis aquatic c a r n i v a l . The events on the program are open only to the employees of the City of New York and i t s borough and county o f f i c e r s . Entry blanks have been mailed to heads of a l l c i t y departments f o r d i s - t r i b u t i o n to t h e i r employees. Additional blanks may be secured a t the Department of P a r k s ' office located a t 64th S t r e e t and Fifth Avenue in Central Park, where a l l e n t r i e s f o r the events must be f i l e d not l a t e r than September 9 t h . No entry fee w i l l be charged in order t o enter in the e v e n t s . Gold f i l l e d s i l v e r and bronze medals w i l l be awarded to competitors who finish f i r s t , second and t h i r d in each event and a plaoue and cup w i l l be presented to t h e department scoring the g r e a t e s t number of p o i n t s . The following events a r e to be conducted: NOVICE 3VENTS OPEN TO ALL CITY, COUNTY ATD BOItOUGH OFFICES 50-Meter Free S t y l e ; 50-Meter Back S t r o k e ; 50-Meter Breast Stroke; 200-Meter Free S t y l e ; Obstacle Race; Diving (10 f t . ) Swan Dive- Back Dive; 1 Optional EVENTS 0PM TO ALL CITY, COUNTY AND BOROUGH OFFICES * 50-Meter Breast Stroke; 50-Meter Back Stroke; 50-Meter Free S t y l e ; 200-Meter Free S t y l e ; 1 0 - f t . Diving, Swan Dive, Back Dive, Running 1% 3 Optionals. RELAY RACES 200-Meter Free Style - 4 Men Swim 50 Meters each; 200-Meter Free Style Mixed Relay - 2 women, 2 men. EVENTS OPEN TO M3N ANDW OMEN LIGHTING 200 LBS. C R OVER OR HAVING A WAIST LINE OF AT LEAST 4S INCHES 50-Meter Free S t y l e ; 10-Ft. Dive, 3 O p t i o n a l s . GIRLS EVENTS 50-Meter Free S t y l e ; 50-Meter Breast Stroke; 100-Meter Free S t y l e ; 1 0 - f t . Diving, Swan Dive, Back Dive, 2 Optionals. OLD TIMERS CHAMPIONSHIP 50-Meters Free Style - f o r employees who have been i n the City service for at l e a s t twenty y e a r s . LIFE GUARD G,iAMPIONSfaIPS Events Open to All Pool Operators and Life Guards Only 100-Meters Free Sty^e; 100-Feters Back Stroke; 100-Meters Breast Stroke; Rescue Rece - 50 Meters. End DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ^ ^FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE *-/*? 0 ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK^" t ^ ^|EPTEMBER 3 , 1936 TEL. REGENT 4-1000 The f i n a l s of the !&36 Championship of the New York City Golf Courses were held at the S p l i t Rock course i n the Bronx, on Sunday, August 30th. 137 Golfers, including 20 women, qualified for the f i n a l s . They were divided i n t o three classes and handicapped according to their > qualifying rounds. As soon as the scores began t o come i n , i t was evident t h a t the course was l i v i n g up to i t s r e p u t a t i o n . There were many golfers playing who u s u a l l y scored in the low seventies, but the woods and closely trapped greens collected t h e i r t o l l and at the end of the f i r s t 18 holes, 80 was the low score. In the afternoon, Olin Cerroche of Dyker Beach scored a 78 which turned out t o be the low score for the course. Low Gross was a t i e between Olin Cerroche of Dyker Beach and L. E. Berg of Clearview at 163. This match w i l l be played off at S p l i t Rock on Sunday, September 6th, at 12 noon. They w i l l play 18 holes medal score. The r u l e s of t h e course w i l l be suspended for that day and the public w i l l be allowed to follow t h i s match without fee. Other r e s u l t s were as follows: Class A - Low Gross - K. Furnya, Van Cortlandt - 167-139 Runner up - H. Hanley, La Tourette - 172-146 Class B - Low Gross - W. Sherry, Forest Park - 180-140 Runner up - 3T.Martinson, La Tourette - 177-141 Class C " Low Gross - J . E. Smith, Clearview - 207-143 Runner up - P. Donovan, Yan Cortlandt- 199-145 Women - Low Gross - Rosita Wallace,Split Rock- 189 Low Net - Annette Reyl, Clearview - 198-150 Team Prize - Van Cortlandt - 685 DEPARTiviEKT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK SEPTEMBER 3rd, 1936 TZL: REgent 4-1000 The l a s t concert i n t h e s e r i e s of four Naumberg Concerts held y e a r l y on "The M a l l " , C e n t r a l P a r k , w i l l be given on Labor Day, Monday September 7th a t 8:15 P.M. An e x c e p t i o n a l l y f i n e program i s planned for t h i s d a t e . Mr. Rosario Bourdon w i l l a c t a s conductor and Mr. Ivan I v a n t o z o f f w i l l be the g u e s t soloist f o r the evening. Following i s t h e program: PROG-RAM 1. LEONORE OVERTURE NO. I l l BEETHOVEN 2. THIRD MOVEMENT SYMPHONY NO. VI TSCHAIK01SKY 3. SIEGMUND'S LOVE SONG f r o m "WALKURE" WAGNER Ivan I v a n t z o f f STRAUSS 4e EMPEROR WALTZ I N T E R M I S S I O N CHABRIER 5. RHAPSODY "ESPANA" BACH 6. a. AIR ON THE G STRING SAIHT-SAENS b. MARCKE FRANCAISE (SUITS ALGERIENN3) MOUSSORGSKY 7. TENOR SOLO "FEIDHERR" Ivan Ivantzoff 8. MEXICAN FOLK SONGS: "CIELITO LINDO" "LA GOLONDRINA" ARR. BY ROSARIO BOURDON 9. OVERTURE "SAKUNxALA'* GOIDMARK "At\iERICA'» End DEPARTMENT OF PARKS W' f i this r:qurtic CE rnivrl. Gold, silver rnd bronze racdfls "-.ill be cvirdvt to those finishing first, second end third in er.ch event-, A mounted silver plaque -rili be presented to tho pool scoring the lsrgest number of points. The follov/ing events eve on the progrfcia: BOYS' EVENTS 12 yerrs 1. - 25 yd. free style 2. - 25 yd. bfck stroke 14 " 3., - 25 yd. free style 4.-3 f ':.. dive - sven, b&ck, front jsck 16 " 5. - 50 yd, free style 6. - 50 yd. beck stroke 7. - 50 yd. breast stroke 3. -230 yd, free s t y l e rclfcy 9. - 10 f t . dive - sv/rn, brck, running 1-1/2, 3 optionpls 17 y e r r s ?nd over 10. - 100 meter free style GIRLS EVENTS 12 yerrs 1. - 25 yd. free style 2. -- 25 yd. btck stroke 14 " 3. - 50 meter free s t y l r 4. - 3 f t , dive - srfn, btck front jr-ck 16 " 5. - 50 ineter free style 6. - 50 meter beck stroke 7. - 50 meter br.-*st, stroke 3, - 10 ft. dive - s w n , brck, 2 optiontls 17 y e r r s fnd over 3. ~ 100 a e t r r free style- Boys tnd g i r l s from Coloni?-1, Hr&ilton Fish, Highbridge rnd Thorn?s Jefferson Pools in iiSenhfittsn; Betsy Herd, McCc.rrcn, Metropolitrn Avenue, Sunset end Red Hook in Brooklyn; Crotone in the Bronx; Ast.orir. in Queens; rnd Fr.bc-.-r end Tompkinsville in Richmond, w i l l perticipfcte in the events. ;x r End - / DEPARTMENT OF PARKS + · FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AR^FNAL, CMTRAL PARK AUGUST 31, 1936 Tel. Regent 4-1000 The Department of Parks announces that the finals of the Amateur Singing Contest, conducted by the Recreation Division, will be held on the Me11, Central Park, Wednesday evening September 2 at 6:30 P. M. Throughout the city thousands of children have competed in eliminf cion contests at their playgrounds. The competitors, ranging from 3 to 16 yeari of age, were selected in the borough finals. There vrill be 17 entries in the final contest at which gold and silver medals will be awarded to the winners. Randolph Hanson, Director of Junior Glee Club and of the University Glee Club, Brooklyn, end Supervisor of Music in Centre! High School, Brooklyn; Luther Gloss, teacher of Music in N. I. C. High School and Director of Manhattan Junior Glee Club, andfairs.A. L. Wolbarst, Chairman of Auditions of City Music League, have been invited to act as judges. Following is a list of singers who will compete in finals: QUEENS Peter O'Keefe John Andrews Playground Ernest Presto Jsckson Heights Plfyground Annette Ardizzone Jackson Heights Playground BROOKLYN Georgia Sonnenberg Kelly Playground Leatrice Rosonth&l New Lots Playground Salv&torc Compitello Tompkins Playground Vito Mosco Taeffe Place Plfyground BRONX Eva Samberg Crotont East Playground Joseph Carroll St. Jfines Playground Rosario Scerfeo Teasdale Playground MANHATTAN John Hewitt Coloniel Park Playground Miches1 Gillan DeWitt Playground Ariette Pfeiffer John Jay Playground Sylvia Lorand McCrty Playground RICHMOND Anita Simpson, George Kelly, Martin Rubin - End - f ,' * DEPARTMENT. OF PARKS . FOR IMl.!EEI)IATE RELEASE ARSENAL," CENTRAL PARK AUGUST 28TH, 1936 TEL: REgent 4 - 1 0 0 0 The Park Department announces that a gala water pageant, the first of its kind to be held on the lower east side, will be presented to the patrons of the Hamilton Fish Swimming Pool, Pitt and East Houston Streets, Manhattan, Sunday, August 30th. Many of the neighborhood residents will participate. The program, consisting of a pageant and aquatic sports, will be reviewed by Father ileptune and his court. Besides a special musical program the exercies will include formation and exhibition swimming, diving, novelty races, comedy acts and water polo. Two performances v.'ill be given, one at 2:00 P. H. and the other at 8:00 P. M. Admission will be as usual: 10 cents for children under fourteen years of age and 20 cents for adults. # DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSMAL, CENTRAL PARK T& t EXCLUSIVE RELMSE To STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE Tel. Regent 4-4000 AUGUST 28, 1936 The playground in Rosebank, located on Virginia Avenue, west of Bay Street, which was completed and opened on March 28, 1956, will be dedicated on Sunday, August 30 at 3:00 P.$., when a plaque will be unveiled in memory of the late Reinhard E. Salteniaeier, former sheriff of Richmond County. Borough President Joseph A. Palma, Magistrate Henry 18. Bridges and Judge Frederick L. Hackenburg will speak. Park Director James J. Mallen, in charge of the borough office of the Department of Parks, will act as chairman. The Park Department color guard will raise the flag to full mast and immediately lower it to half mast while buglers blow taps in honor of the late sheriff. -end- { · ··-.'.! · ·-. - *, C l - M DEDICATION OF R E I K H A R D E. KALTMMEIER PLAYGROUND VIRGINIA AVENUE. YiBST OF BAY STREET.RQSEBANS SUNDAY. AUGUST SO. 1956. at 5:QO P.M. ·tOO P.M. James J. Mallen, Park Director, Borough of Richmond, Chairman 3: 05 " Honorable Henry W. Bridges, City Magistrate 5:07 P.M. Honorable Frederick L. Hackenburg Justice of the Court of Special Sessions 5:12 P.M. Honorable Joseph A. Palma, President Borough of Richmond 5:18 P.M. Unveiling of Plaque Raising of colors by Park Department Color Guard DEPARTMENT OF PAMB 1/ r/l i t f R DaMSDIATE RELEASE CSKTKAL PARK J O L A U GUST £7th, 1936 TEL: EEggffit 4-1000 ' fc, Departiq^nt of Parks, City of New York, Amateur Golf Cham- pionship Finals, 36 holes medal play, will be held at the Split Rock Golf Course in the Bronx, Sunday, August 30th. Qualifying rounds were played on a l l of the ten courses during the period of August 15th to 23rd. 137 players have qualified for the finals. The entire tournament will be conducted under the direction of the Department of Parks assisted by a committee of golfors chosen from the ranks of the Public Links players* The entry fee was one dollar ($1.00) and a l l of this money will be used to purchase fifteen prizes of this tournment and also six prizes for tho caddy tournament, to be hold at the Laxourotto Course in Richmond, Monday, August 31st. One hundred caddies have qualified for this tournament. The cards of tho golfors who qualified plus the existing club handicap l i s t s were tho basis for tho handicaps assigned by the Handi- cap Committee. All of the qualifiers were divided into t^ree classes and prizes will be awarded for low net and runner up in each class. There will be a low gross prize and tho winner will bo awarded the City Cham- pionship for 1936. Also a runner up prize on the gross score and a team prize for the four low gross scores from any one course. This team prize will be a permanent trophy and must bo won throe times for pormancnt possession. The following i s the l i s t of qualifiers with their handicaps and starting time. One hour will be allowed for lunch before the start of the final 18 holes. End DEPARTMENT QMPJSKS CITY OF NEW YOK Amateur Golf Championship 4 Starting times and handicap list for qualifiers for 36 hole finals to be heia at Split Rock Golf Course, August 30, 1936. Starting Time Class Name Course 7:30 (C) Al Friedman Van Cortlandt 30 Dr. Burstan Pelham 24 James McGinty Split Rock 24 Bernard Seeman liosholu 27 7:35 (B) J. Holmes Split Rock 16 M. Rogers Mosholu 18 B. R, Tolie Van Cortlandt 23 J. Yoshida Van Cortlandt 16 7:40 (A) J. Reilly Split Rock 13 W. llohrwinkle Pelham 10 Peter De Caprio Van Cortlanit 8 F. J. Matthews Split Rock 9 7:45 (C) Howard McDonough Van Cortlandt 30 J. J. Dougherty Pelham 30 T. J. La Manna Van Cortlandt 24 A.'R. Bernstein Pelham 27 7:50 (B) ' E, Moore Van Cortlandt 18 C. Sehroer Split Rock 17 J. Gleacher Mosholu 18 ' I. Dickstein Pelham 21 7:55 (A) E. J. Tracy Pelham F. Rampersack Pelham 12 J. Columbo Pelham 9 H- Bassett Pelham 13 8:00 (C) John Lembach Pelham 25 John Donovan Van Cortlandt 27 Mac Altman Forest 30 Gilbert Addis Clearview 30 8;05 (B) Eva V. McDonald- Split Rock 22 Caroline Roettger Pelham 22 Edna Anita Goodman Pelham 22 Rosita Wallace Split Rock 20 8tlO (A) Ken Furuya Van Cortlandt 14 G. 2 , Kellogg Van Cortlandt 11 ,E. J . Burns Split Rock 12 H. Michelson Van Cortlandt 11 8:15 (C) Trixie Rouch Split Rock 28 Viola Raves Split Rock / 27 E, J. Hogg Split Rock 32 Connie Rosenbsum Pelham 35 8:20 (B) Molly Newman Split Rock Hina I. Waite Split Rock 23 Mary Wilson Kissena 22 8:25 (A) C. Grapel Van Cortlandt 12 P-. Brons Van Cortlandt 14 S. Strachner Split Rock 18 R» Rotunda Van Cortlandt 12 8:30 (C) Anna Rosenberg Split Rock 28 Annette Reyl Clearview 24 Rosaland Valenstein Clearview 30 Marie R. Collier Forest Park 50 8:35 (B) Steve Brody Dykosr 18 F« C. -h-ndrews Kissena 20 Stephen Frahm Clearview 18 Vincent pierce Dyker 16 T-if- - * · · · % . Starting Time Class CouiflP Hdc 8:40 (A) W. J. Norman Pelham 13 Gordon Fraser Van Cortlandt 11 R. !· La Mar Van Cortlandt 12 Robort Cutler Van Cortlandt 12 8:45 (C) Sadie Schildkraut Dykor Beach 34 Claire Sehmidlin Forest Park 32 Freda Dooring Forest Park 40 Ida Gordon Kisscna 50 8:50 (B) ''lilliam Jannetto Clearview 20 Louis Carbone Forest Park 22 N. Larry Smith Kissena 15 Arthur Baistedt Dykcr Beach 19 8:55 (A) F, Maguiro Van Cortlandt 13 J. Farrell Van Cortlandt 11 B. L. K-hn Mosholu 9 Nick Cimaglia Van Cortlandt 12 9:00 (c) J. E. Smith Clearview 32 A. Ko.walczh Forest Park 24 W. E. Gordon Kissona 50 W. Balenbcrg Cl o-arview 26 9:05 (B) Charles Spicht Forest Park 18 J. A. Riloy Clearview 20 C. Hondrickson Clearview 15 J, J. Gerow Dyker Beach 21 9:10 (A) A. Burroughs Van CortlaDdt 10 C. Newman Van Cortlandt 13 M. Greif Mosholu 14 Irving C. Payno, Jr k La Tourotto 12 9il5 (C) G. F. Sukoski Forest Park 28 R. Suhnoor Clearview 40 F. M. Bassimino Cle arview 28 ¥. J. Kuzzckwalski Clcarview 24 9:20 (B) Jamos F. Frugono Dyker Beach 18 Irving Schlesinger Clearview 22 H, W. Tilson Clearview 20 Stanley H. Rice Dyker Beach 16 9: §5 (A) Nicholas V. Baxter La Tourctte 13 Petor P. Roche La TourettQ 13 Belmont Murray Forest Park 8 Andy Murphy Clearview 12 9:30 (c) Lilly Kienzle La Tourette 24 Barbara Edlend Clearview 25 Mary B, Ditty Kisscna 24 9:35 (B) G. Williams La iourotte 15 Victor Pavis La Tourette 22 Ralph Iviurinelli Mosholu 16 John F. Sullivan Dyker Beach 18 9:40 (A) William Jack Forost Park 8 L. F. Berg Clearview 6 Hay McDonald Clearview 10 A. Zadina Cloarviow 9 9; 45 (O G. M. C. Mclneiny Kisscna 30 Jamos i>. Iviontoux La TouiGtte 24 Vincent Pope Dyker Beach 10 9:50 (B) lhomas Barkstodt Dykcr Beach 19 James R. Schultz Dykcr Beach 20 Goorge Saundors Dyker Beach 17 James Martinson La Tourette 18 9:55 (A) Harold Banloy La Tourotte 13 J. Hausner Clearview 12 Cameron Thurston La Touretto 13 Olin Corrocko Dyker Boach 2 - 3 - 4 Starting Class Name Course 10:00 10:05 (B) A. R. Me Criimaon Kissena 20 John A. Powers Clearviow 15 L. II. Glenaon Dykor Beach 22 Frank -u. Smith Kissena 15 10:10 (A) George Lodwith La Tourette 6 Louis F. Fedor La Tourette 8 Wayne Christenson Clearview 14 H. D- Scott Dyker Beach 7 10:15 10:20 Richard Payne, J r . La Tourotto 15 Walter Sherry Forest J?ark 20 Edwin Hi Idon La Tourette 22 Walter Crav/ford La Tourette 20 10:25 (A) Sdwin Thompson Dykor Boach 8 Ray M. Ward Clearview 12 Roy Christianson Dyker Boach 8 Joo Maxwell Dyker Beach 7 10:30 10:35 10:40 (A) Sid Thomas Forest 4 Robert Br.rkor Forest 14 R. Dean Forost 5 Sidney Fields Clearview 12 10:45 10:50 10:55 11:00 11:05 11:10 # T O ^T FOR BMEDIATS AUGUST 25th, 1936 TEL: REgent 4-1000 The Park Department, after a careful analysis of the requirements for po- lice protection, finds that a minimum of 500 additional over the present park quota of 552 men are required to protect park and parkway areas and to enforce park or- dinances. Since January 1, 1934, 173 new playgrounds hare, been added to the recrea- tional system, all of which require additional vigilance from the patrolmen in whose territory they lie, and, in cases of playgrounds such as Roosevelt in Manhattan, Highland in Queens, Leiv Eiriksson and James S. Byrne in Brooklyn and Macomb's Dam in The Bronx, definite and constant assignments of police vdthin the areas are necessary. In addition, Randall's Island with its stadium and 194 acres surrounding it, eleven new swimming pools and the complete reconstruction beach developments at Jacob Riis Park in Queens and Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, The ironi have been opened to the public. All of these revenue producing facilities attract large crowds of people and need constant assignments of sufficient police to keep order and prevont vandalism. Besides the playgrounds, swimming pools, beaches and Randall's Island, several large park areas such as the 58 acre. Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan, Alley Pond, Brookville and Cunningham Parks in Queens and Fort Schuyler in The Bronx have been added to the park system, practically every park area has been rehabilitated and pro- vided with additional facilities, with such developments as the Prospect and Central Park zoos completely redesigned and reconstructed and many miles of parkways have been or are about to be completed and opened to traffic. Those parks arc extensively used by the public and require additional police protection. Last year, after an unsuccessful attempt to have 300 additional police as- signed to work directly under the Park Commissioner to make up for the shortage of regular city police, 200 Park Department Civil Service employees were deputized as special officers. However, these 200 men, whose police authority was simply added to their already burdensome supervisory duties, could not prodvicc the same results as 200 regular police officers. The needs of last year have increased materially, and in order to help the Police Department obtain sufficient men to give adequate coverage to city parks, Park Department officials, representatives of the Park Association of the City of New York and "other agencies familiar with the present unsatisfactory conditions will appear at a budget hearing on Wednesday, August 26th, to aid Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine in obtaining his authorized quota of 1932 which, if granted, would permit the appointxaont of some 1200 new patrolmen during 1937, plus a£l replacements for vacancies caused by donth, retirement, dismissal, etc. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS · *W _ ^ FOR ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK P ooT.s coifc s t r u c t e d by the Park Department w i t h W.P.A. funds t o be opened t h i s summer, w i l l be formally dedicated and opened t o the public Saturday, August 8 t h a t 8:30 P.M. I t i s l o c a t e d i n Colonial Park a t 146th S t r e e t and Bradhurst Avenue, i n t h e Harlem s e c t i o n of Manhattan. Mayor LaGuardia, Park Commissioner Robert Moses and William ( B i l l ) Robinson, stage and screen f a v o r i t e , ' w i l l speak and by s p e c i a l i n v i t a t i o n Roland Hayes, the d i s t i n g u i s h e d tenor w i l l sing v a r i o u s s e l e c t i o n s , including t h e " B a t t l e Hymn of t h e Republic." The progr&m a l s o w i l l include swimming and diving e x h i b i t i o n s by l o c a l · Harlem s t a r s who are being coached by the Park Department's a q u a t i c e x p e r t s . The swimming pool i s 82 f e e t x 235 f e e t and the d i v i n g pool i s 65 feet x 82 f e e t . The l o c a t i o n of the pool and bathhouse was formerly the bed of a stream emptying i n t o the Harlem River and considerable c o n s t r u c t i o n d i f f i c u l t y was e x p e r i - enced w i t h quicksand and mud. While only the south h a l f of t h e two s t o r y b r i c k bathhouse b u i l d i n g , of medieval a r c h i t e c t u r e with Roman arched windows, b u t t r e s s e s and towers, accommodat- ing 1800 p e r s o n s , w i l l be ready f o r t h e opening, t h e r e w i l l be accommodations for 4100 when the e n t i r e b u i l d i n g i s completed. When the r e d e s i g n of t h e Park i s completed, t h e r e w i l l b e , north of t h e bathhouse, n o t . o n l y a completely equipped c h i l d r e n ' s playground but a l s o a l a r g e area for adult r e c r e a t i o n , i n c l u d i n g a new g r a n o l i t h i c outdoor dance floor to which w i l l be t r a n s f e r r e d the popular s t r e e t dances now being, conducted on Tuesday,, and Thursday evenings, by t h e Park Department. The a d d i t i o n of these a c t i v i t i e s for a d u l t s w i t h i n t h e h e a r t of the colored s e c t i o n of Manhattan i s i n keeping with the Park Department's policy to increase adult recreation f a c i l i t i e s wherever possible. The pool will be opened from 10:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. The bathhouse will open at 9:30 A.M. to children under 14 years of age, who will be admitted to the pool free until 12:30 P.M., except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. During the free period, group swimming and diving classes will be held each day at 10:00 A.M. After 1:00 P.M. children under 14 years of age will be charged 10 cents and a l l others 20 cents. The wading nool opened earlier this year, like the wading pools in a l l new playgrounds, will be free at all times, and winter use of the nool and bathhouse areas which are designed for other sports before and after the swimming season, will also be free. The f a c i l i t i e s will be operated by uniform Civil Service Psrk Department employees. Instead of the customary lockers and dressing room arrangements, a basket system of checking clothes will be used,permitting a greater use of dressing room facilities. t DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR RKJKASF, ARSEUAL, CMTRAI PARK TSL: EHJSNT 4 - 1OOO AUGUST 5th, 1936. The Park Department announces that the new swimming pool located in the Betsy Head Memorial Playground on Eopkinson and Dumont Avenues, in the Brownsville section, Brooklyn, will be formally dedicated to the public Thursday, August 6th at 10 A.M. Park CoBc&issioner Robert Moses and Philip Hewansky, president of the Pitkin Arenue Merchants* Association will speak. Following the speeches there will be a flag-raising ceremony and attrac tive exhibitions by the Park Department aquatic experts. The opening of this pool makes a total of nine of the eleven new swim- ming pools constructed by the Park Department with W« ?. A. funds which will be opened during this simmer. The Betsy Head Pool, formerly 60 feet x 150 feet, without filters, chemical and reeireulatory systems, has been entirely reconstructed and is now 185 feet x 330 feet, with a broad, concrete beach on each side and ends - almost three times as wide as the old pool, and will have the most modern type of re- circulatory system for the purification of water. The interior of the old locker and shower building, which formerly contained 400 lockers, has been entirely renovated and enlarged to provide dressing and checking facilities for 4800 per- sons. Instead of the customary lockers and dressing room arrangements, a basket system cf cheeking clothes will be used, permitting a greater use of dressing room facilities. The pool will be open from 10:00 A.M. to 10:30 P. V, The path house facilities will open at 9:30 A. V. to children under 14 years of ape, who will be admitted to the pool free until l":30 P. V. except Saturdays, Sundays antf holi- days. During the free period, group swimming and diving classes will be held each day at 10:00 A. M. After 1:00 P. M., children under 14 ye«rs of age will be charged 10 cents and all others SO cents. Aquatic exhibitions will be offered periodically at the pools. completed, later in the year, the Betsy Head Memorial Playground will have not only the new swimming pool, but also diving and wading pools 50 fset x 100 feet, a new, completely equipped playground for children, a new five-laps to the mile cinder running track and a new soccer field, all fitted into a general landscape scheme. The wading pool when completed will, like the wading pools in all play- grounds, be free at all times. · · · · · · DEPARTMKNT Of PARKS ^ . j «*"\ ' A | £ £ IMMEDIATE RSZEASI ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK fl) \I U j V TEL:RSgent 4-1000 *7 ' V / i^JLY 30, 1936. I The Park Department announces-the opening of another asset in community health in the form of a new swimming pool in the Borough of Brooklyn« The new McCarren Park Swimming Pool located on Lorimer Street between Driggs Avenue and Bayard Street in the Greenpoint section will be formally dedicated to the public Friday, July 31st at 8j30 P.M. The pool is equipped with special underwater flood l i g h t s , which make i t more pleasant and safer for night u s e . Mayor LaGuardia, Park Commissioner Robert Moses, Hon. Frank J. Taylor, Comptroller of the City of New York, Eon. Victor Ridder, Works Progress Administrator of New York City, Hono peter J. McGuinness, Sheriff of Kings County, and Dr. Ignatius P. A. Byrne, President of the Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce, will speak,. Following the speeches there w i l l bo a flag raising ceremony and elaborate and a t t r a c t i v e exhibitions by the Park Department aquatic exports, Tho opening of t h i s pool makes a t o t a l of eight of tho eleven new swimming pools constructed by the Park Department with W.P.A. funds which w i l l bo openod during this summers The ivicCarrcn Pool i s 165 foot x 330 foot with semi-circular diving and wad- ing pools at either end. The bathhouse, with dressing f a c i l i t i e s for 6800 persons, i s the largest of the eleven pool buildings, and, because' of the high coiling and clear span, will, during seasons when the pool i s not in operation, be converted into a spacious, free gymnasium. The pool w i l l be open from 10:00 A.M. to 10:30 POM. Tho bathhouse w i l l open at 9:30 A.M. to children under 14 years of age, who will bo admitted to the pools free until 12:30 P.M., except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. During the free period grajjp swimming and diving classes will be held oach day a t 10:00 A.M. After 1:00 P.M. c h i l - dren undor 14 years of ago w i l l be charged 10 cents and a l l others 20 cents. Tho f a c i l i t i e s will be operated by uniform Civil Service Park Department employees. Instead of the customary lookers and dressing room arrangements, a basket system of checking clothes w i l l be used, permitting a greater use of dressing room facilities. Aquatic exhibitions will be offorod periodically at tho pool and the wading pool opened last f a l l will, like the wading pools in new playgrounds, be froe at a l l times. The Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce have arranged for a parade of a l l neigh- borhood organizations along Manhattan Avenue to the pool. After tho pool opening tho parade committee, of which Dr. Ignatius P.A. Byrne is general chairmen, w i l l hold a receitpon and dinner at the Lexington Auditorium, Messrole Avenue and Lorimer Street,. Brooklyn. * End /. V0 · OF PAHKS FOR RELEASE ARSENAL, GWHiUL PAKK : BSgent 4-1000 JULY 30, 1936 The Department of Parks w i l l open t h r e e more playgrounds in on F r i d a y , J u l y 3 1 s t t making a t o t a l of 172 playgrounds added t o t h e Park Department r e c r e a t i o n a l system s i n c e t h e beginning of the p r e s e n t administration. Prior to January, 1934, there were 108 playgrounds in the park system, 28 of which have been completely reconstructed and modernized with 27 more to he rebuilt before the end of the year. In addition to these rehabilitated areas, t ere will be 90 more entirely new recreation areas which w i l l be opened to the public before January 1, 1937, The purchase of s i t e s for g4 of these was recently approved by the Mayor and the Board of Estimate. When the present programs i s completed, there will bo a t o t a l of 349 playground areas under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks, The new f a c i l i t i e s to open at Marine Park are located in the southerly half of the area north of Avenue U between Stuart and East 3gnd Streets, and include three baseball diamonds, two football and soccer fields and one-half of the oval-shaped bicycle and roller skating track. When the entire area i s completed besides the 7/8ths of a mile track, there w i l l be ten baseball diamonds, four football and soccer fields, tennis courts, sep- arate completely equipped boys' and g i r l s ' playgrounds and a large parking area a l l fitted into a general landscape scheme. The reconstructed area at MeKibben playground, White Street be- tween McKibben and Siegel Streets, consists of a large game area, a wading pool and complete apparatus for children. Benches are placed around the edges of the playground under shade trees for the use of mothers and nurses* At Carroll Park, Smith, President, Carroll and Court Streets, the entire area i s being redesigned and the f a c i l i t i e s in the east half which have been completed include a wading pool, which « i l l be used as a basketball court in the spring and f a l l and play apparatus for g i r l s and small boys. Around the granite monument, dedicated to the memory of the Eighth Assembly District boys who died in the World War, and which has bean relocated, i s a large c i r - cular plaza with benches and shade trees for passive recreation. yes DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR DMEDIATE HELEASS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK Tel. Regent 4-1000 JULY 2 9 , 1936 Bids were opened in Albany this afternoon for the construction V of the service road along the west side of Flushing Meadow park from Union Turnpike to Northern Boulevard. This is the first of ten contracts for the construction by the state Department of Public Vforks of highways through and in the vicinity of Flushing Meadow Park, in preparation for the handling of the enormous traffic expected during the period of the World's Fair in 1939 * The designs and plans were prepared jointly by the City Park Department} the Queens Highway Department, and the State Department, and tha State Department of Public Works. The roadway will be built with state funds appropriated under Chapter $465 of the Laws of 1936, under the super- vision of the Division of Highways of the State Department of Public Workse The low bid was made by Johnson, Drake & Piper Company of Free- port, Long Island, $iQ9>8530 Two other bids were received, Tully & Di Napoli for $201,981; and J. P., Burns for $2035739o The engineers* estimate was |203,071,25. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ^ ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARE FOR RELEASE Regent 4 - 1 0 0 0 JULY 2 7 , 1 9 3 6 . As a sequel to the Park Department's Travelling Farm Yard, which toured the park playgrounds t h i s spring, a 6-ton trellised-covered Trailer, 17 f t . long and 7 f t . wide, has been arranged by the Park Department, with t i e r s of flowers, interesting plants, garden implements - their proper names and uses, and other reminders of life in the country. This "Bit of Country" on wheels will start i t s tour of city playgrounds on July 27th at 9 A.M. i t s first stop will be at Roosevelt Playground, on the lower east side. I t will stay at each playground from one to two days, and then move on to the other playgrounds. This novel display might attract but a passing glance from a suburban or country youngster, but to children whose start in life is a world of brick and stone, with burning pavements instead" of shady lanes, i t will prove as inspiring and thrilling as the cow and chickens of the ^ravelling Farm Yard. The Trailer has a platfonn and steps on each side, from which the exhibit of over 100 different plants may be seen: Marigolds, Black Eyed Susans, Cockscombs, Fuchsias, Forget-Me-$Jots, Petunias, Snowballs, Roses, give color to the more sombre plants of Mint, Thyme, Sage, Sweet Potato, Cotton, Peanut and Tobacco. Plants of beans and sweet corn, in different stages of growth, are also included in this entertaining playground exhibit. w A plant of Poison-IvyB in a special glass enclosure will be shown, with the patent sign - "Know i t when you see i t - notice the three leaves.11 The versatile attendant will t a l l about the old country adage, which ran in r e - gard to Poison-Ivy - "Fingers Three Turn and Flee." ( 2 ) The rear end of the Trailer will have a model window-box and a display of garden tools with their proper names and uses. The front end of the Trailer will have a folding table resting on and enclosing the coupling bar of the Trailer. On t h i s table will be shown Frogs, Toads, Turtles, harmless Garter Snakes and other insects; friends and enemies of the countryside, properly named. n Many city youngsters s t i l l call the rake, "a scraper", the hoe, a chopper", the spade "a shovel" and the trowel "a big spoon." Likewise, when i t comes to the insects, they call the dragon-fly, "a darning needle", the earthworm, "a snake* and in many instances the friendly ladybug suffers an odious comparison. The Trailer i s so constructed that the side platforms and guard r a i l s fold up, enclosing the sides of the exhibit when not in use. The folding-table is fastened to the front when the Trailer i s moved, and the spaces underneath the t i e r s of plants are used to house part of the exhibit at night. -5- F0R DEPARTMENT OF PARKS f ^ D IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK f JULY 2 3 , 1936 TE: REgent 4-1000 Bids were taken today by the State Department of Public Vforks in Albany for the paving of the Henry Hudson Parkway from the City Line t o Riverdale Avenue, a length of one and a half miles. The low Mdder was The Inrnick Company (Inc.), Meriden, Connecticut with a bid of |329,535.50. The Henry Hudson Parkway i s being constructed through the cooperation of the State Department of Public Workst the Henry Hudson Parkway Authority and the New York City Department of Parks. I t will run from the end of Riverside Drive at Dyckman Street through Inwood Hill Park, across the Harlem River on the Henry Hudson Bridge, through Spuyten Duyvil and Riverdale sections of the Bronx into and through Van Cortlandt Park to connect with the Westchester parkway system by way of tho Saw Mill River Parkway at the City Line. The contract calls for two 3-lane concrete roadways separated by a planting area which span a l l cross roads and the railroad by the use of bridges built under previous contracts and has access roadways leading to a l l important cross a r t e r i e s . -END- DEPARTMENT OF PARKS i FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JULY 2 3 , 1936. TEL: REgent 4-1OOO The new Crotona Swimming P o o l , l o c a t e d at 173rd S t r e e t and F u l t o n Avenue, Crotona P a r k , The Bronx, w i l l be formally d e d i c a t e d and opened t o t h e p u b l i c F r i d a y , July 2 4 t h , a t 8:30 P.M. Mayor LaG-uardia, Park Commissioner Robert Moses, Hon. James J . Lyons, P r e s i - dent of t h e Borough of The Bronx, Alderman P e t e r Donovan, and John W, O'Brien, Chair- man of The Bronx Committee of t h e Park A s s o c i a t i o n of New York C i t y , w i l l speak. The program a l s o w i l l include swimming and d i v i n g e x h i b i t i o n s by former swimming and d i v i n g champions now employed by t h e Park Department. The Crotona Pool i s t h e seventh of e l e v e n swimming p o o l s c o n s t r u c t e d by t h e Park Department with W.P.A. funds which w i l l be opened during the summer and w i l l accommodate 4265 persons a t a time. The area i n c l u d e s a swimming p o o l 120 f e e t x 339 f e e t with a s e m i - c i r c u l a r d i v i n g p o o l 120 f e e t wide. There i s a l s o a wading pool 110 f e e t x 110 f e e t , which was opened t o t h e c h i l d r e n i n 1955. The b a t h house i s a two-story white b r i c k limestone trimmed b u i l d i n g with a large, b r i c k arched e n t r a n c e . Along one s i d e of the swimming pool and e n c i r c l i n g t h e diving pool a r e concrete b l e a c h e r s where b a t h e r s may r e s t and sun themselves and where s p e c t a t o r s may watch pool shows and meets. The pool w i l l be open from 10:00 A.M. t o 10:30 P.M. The b a t h house w i l l open a t 9:30 A.M. to c h i l d r e n under 14 y e a r s of age, who w i l l b e admitted to t h e p o o l free u n t i l 12:30 P.M., except Saturdays, Sundays and h o l i d a y s . During t h e f r e e p e r i o d , group swimming end d i v i n g c l a s s e s w i l l bo held esch day a t 10:00 A.M. After 1:00 P.M. c h i l d r e n under 14 years of e.ge w i l l b e charged t e n c e n t s and o i l o t h e r s twenty c e n t s . The f a c i l i t i e s w i l l be opereted by uniformed C i v i l Service Pr.rk Department employees. Instead of t h e customary l o c k e r s r.nd d r e s s i n g room arrangements, a basket system of checking c l o t h e s w i l l bo used, p e r m i t t i n g a g r e a t e r use of d r e s s i n g room f a c i l i t i e s . Swimming and diving exhibitions will be offered periodically at tho pool. The wading pool built in connection with t h i s project, like the weding pools in new playgrounds, will be free at a l l times, end winter use of the pools and brth house plan, which are designed for other sports outside of the summer ser.son, will also be free. 4 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK . JULY 19, 1936 TEL. REGENT 4-1000 The new Sunset Swimming Pool, located at 44th Street and 7th Avenue, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, will be formally dedicated and opened to the public Monday, July 20th at 3:30 P. M. Mayor LaGuardia, Frank J. Taylor, Comptroller of the City, Park Commissioner Robert Moses, Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, Alderman James J. Molen and Cary D. Waters, president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, will speak. The program also will include swimming and diving exhibitions by former swimming and diving champions now employed by the Park Department. The Sunset Pool is the sixth of eleven swimming pools constructed by the Park Department with W. P. A. funds which will be opened during the summer and will accomodate 4850 persons at a time. The area includes a swimming pool 165 feet x 256 feet with semi-circular diving and wading pools 165* wide at either end. The pool will be open from 10:00 A. M. to 10:30 P. M. Children under fourteen years of age will be admitted free from 10:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. daily, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with free group swimming and diving classes held each day at 10:00 A. M. After 1:00 P. M. children under fourteen years of age will be charged ten cents and all others twenty cents. The facilities will be operated by uniformed Civil service park Department employees. Instead of the customary lockers and dressing room arrange- ments a basket system of checking clothes will be used, permitting a greater use of dressing room facilities. * Swimming and diving exhibitions will be offered periodically at the pool. The wading pool built in connection with this project, like the wading pools in new playgrounds, will be free at all times and winter use of the pools and bathhouse plan which are designed for other sports outside of the summer season, will also be free. DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR HuMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JULY 1 7 t h , 1936 REgent 4-1000 The Department of P a r k s announces a v a r i e d s p o r t s program over t h e week-end a t - t h e new Municipal R a n d a l l ' s I s l a n d Stadium. A playground t r a c k and f i e l d meet, an e x h i b i t i o n o f f o l k d a n c i n g , a G a e l i c h u r l i n g game and a championship b a s e b a l l game will be offered at the Island Sports Center. The track meet and folk dancing is scheduled for tommorrow afternoon, Saturday, July 18th, a t 2:00 o'clock. More than 1,400 assorted junior entrants will compete in this junior Olympic Carnival. Among the events scheduled are dashes from 40 yards to 100 yards; relays; obstacle races; shot put; high jump and running broad jump competitions and a baseball throw for distance. The entrants will come from the Park Department Playgrounds throughout the five boroughs. Three special events will be open to members of the Police Athletic League. More than 250 children will participate in the exhibition of folk dancing on the grass infield of the stadium. Public admission to t h i s event w i l l be 10 cents for children and 20 cents for adults. On Sunday, July 19th, at 2:00 P. M., Cork and Tipperary, two strong Irish Hurling teams w i l l clash in the feature event of the day. Following the hurling geme, the baseball nines of Saint Augustine end Saint Margaret Mary, members of the Bronx Holy Name Baseball League, will meet in a regulation league contest. In the hurling match, many of the local stars who faced the Irish champions for international hurling honors will be seen in e.etion. Val End Jack Medigan, Dick Purcell, Jimmy Smee, Teddy Me Carthy, Ned Browne end Oris Hayes are among the local stars who will appear in t h i s dashing game of Gael. The baseball game will feature Bob Kimmer and George Behlmer, young strikaout orti. sts who will oppose each other on the mound. Public admission for this Sunday double-barreled feature will be 10 cents for children and 20 cents for adults. Perkiagfor cars on the I'slr.nd is free. The is 25 ce^ts for automobiles while -pedestrians may crose ' ou< DEPARTMENT OF PARKS ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK TEL. REgent 4-1000 i FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 15th, 1936 The Department of Parks announces t h e following bookings scheduled f o r the new municipal R a n d a l l ' s Island Stadium which was formally introduced t o New York's s p o r t s p u b l i c w i t h t h e F i n a l American Olympic track a n t f i e l d t r y o u t s l a s t Saturday and Sunday. Wednesday, July 15th, a -- Baseball Double - header, Edison Hotel v s : Roosevelt Hotel and Saks and Company v s : F r a n k l i n Simon Company, was h e l d . Saturday, July 18th, 2 : 00 P.M. -- Monster five-borough playground a t h l e t i c meet w i t h demonstration of folk dancing by playground c h i l d r e n . Sunday, July 19th, 2:30 P.M. -- Hurling Match, County Cook v s : County Tipperary of Gaelic League. 4:00 P.M. -- Baseball Game, S t . Augustine v s : S t . Margaret Mary, Cath&Mc League champions of the Western and Eastern Division of t h e borough of The Bronx. Sunday, July 86th, 1:00 P.M. -- Municipal A t h l e t i c League t r a c k and field meet. Saturday, August 15th, 2:00 P.M. -- Opening day of World Labor Athletic Carnival. Sunday, August 16th, 2:00 P.M. - - Final day of World Labor Athletic Car- nival and Soccer game. Competent observers at the recent tryouts are of the opinion that the Randall's Island Stadium is ideally suited for all types of sports competitions. Admission to the above events will be 10 and 20 cents with the exceptions of the Municipal Athletic League meet and the World Labor Carnival. Tickets for the Municipal meet will be distributed free of charge to tho various City departments. Tickets for the World Labor Carnival are priced from 25 cents to $2.00. End · DEPARTMENT OF PARKS TOR RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JULY 1 3 , 1936 TEL. REGENT 4-1OOO The new Highbridge Swimming P o o l , l o c a t e d a t 175th S t r e e t and Amsterdam xivenue i n Highbridge P a r k , Manhattan, w i l l b e f o r m a l l y d e d i - c a t e d and opened t o t h e p u b l i c on Tuesday, J u l y 1 4 t h a t 8:30 P . M# Mayor LaGuardia, P a r k Commissioner Robert Moses, James E . F i n e g a n , P r e s i d e n t of t h e Municipal C i v i l S e r v i c e Commission, Aldermanic P r e s i d e n t Timothy J , S u l l i v a n , Alderman Alexander F a l k and Samuel R. Rosenberg of t h e Washington H e i g h t s Chamber of Commerce w i l l s p e a k . The program a l s o w i l l i n c l u d e swimming and d i v i n g e x h i b i - t i o n s by former swimming and d i v i n g champions now employed by t h e Park De- partment. The H i g h b r i d g e P o o l i s t h e f i f t h of e l e v e n swimming p o o l s c o n s t r u c t e d by t h e Park Department w i t h W. P . A. funds which w i l l b e opened d u r i n g t h e summer and w i l l accommodate 4880 p e r s o n s a t a t i m e . The a r e a i n c l u d e s a swimming pool 166 f e e t x 228 f e e t w i t h a wading p o o l 97 f e e t x 228 feet. The pool will be open from 10:00 A. M. to 10:30 P. M. Children under fourteen years of age will be admitted free from 10:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. daily, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with free group swimming and diving classes held each day at 10:00 A. M. After 1:00 P. M. children under fourteen years of age will be charged ten cents and a l l others twenty cents. The f a c i l i t i e s will be operated by uniformed Civil Service Park Department employes. Instead of the customary lockers and dressing room arrangements, a basket system of checking clothes m i l be uaed, permitting a greater use of dressing room f a c i l i t i e s . Swimming arad diving exhibitions will be offered periodically at the pool. The wading pool built in connection with this project, like the wading pools in new playgrounds, will be free at all times and winter use of the pools and bathhouse plan which are designed for other sports outside of the summer season, will also be froe. DEPARTMENT 01 PARKS Ifif*. FOR Bt/IEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JULY 8, 1936 Tel. REGENT 4 - 100? The Department of Parks will open three new playgrounds Fri- day, July 10th, making a total of 171 playgrounds added to the recrea- tional system of the Park Department since January 1934. Prior to that date there were 108 playgrounds in the park system, 20 of which have been completely reconstructed and modernized and 29 more will be rebuilt before the end of the year. In addition to these rehabilitated areas there will be 67 more entirely new recreation areas which will be opened to the public before January 1, 1937. When the present program is completed there will be a total of 325 playground areas under the jurisdiction of the Depart- ment of Parks* Of the three new playgrounds, one will be in the Bronx and two in Queens, The new playground in the Bronx, located at Bryant Avenue and 176th Street, is completely equipped with play apparatus for small chil- dren, has a portable shower for summer use and also a large game area. In Queens, the portion of Martin»s Field Playground, located at 46th Avenue and 164th Street to be opened, contains a wading pool, playhouses, sand tables and play apparatus for small children* Benches are set around the edges of the playground for the uso of mothers and nurses. At the Juniper Valley Playground, located on Dry Harbor Road from 62nd to 63rd Avenues, the play area to be opened contains play equip- ment, basket and volley ball courts and benches under shade trees for those with small children. This playground is situated in a fifty acre tract formerly part of the estate of the late Arnold Rothstein, which was taken over by the City for back taxes. Over 100,000 cubic yards of valuable peat, which covered a major portion of the property, have already been salvaged from the site and used throughout the park system. When completely developed the park will contain^ besides the playground, a wading pool, a large athletic field with football, soccer and baseball fields, a large lake, sixteen tennis courts and two parking areas, all fitted Into a general landsoajp#d plan* DEPARTMENT OF PARKS**^ \s\ ) \ FOR RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK JULY 5, 1936 Tel: REGENT 4 - 1OOO The new Tompkinsville Swimming Pool located at Arrietta Street and Pier 6, Borough of Richmond will be formally dedicated and opened to the public on Tuesday, July 7 at 8:30 P. M. by the Park Department, Mayor LaGuardia, Park Commissioner Robert Moses, Borough Presi- dent Joseph A. Palma, Alderman Harry Robillard and Louis Kaufman, Presi- dent of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, will speak. The program also will include swimming and diving exhibitions by former swimming and diving champions now employed by the Park Department. The Tompkinsville Pool is the fourth of ten swimming pools con- structed by the Park Department with W, P. A. funds which will be opened during the summer and will accommodate 2800 persons at a time. The 3.17 acre area includes a swimming pool 100 feet x 165 feet and diving and ·wading pools 68 feet x 100 feet. The pool will be open from 10:00 A. M. to 10:30 P. M. Children under fourteen years of age will be admitted free from 10:00 A. M, to 1:00 P. M. daily, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with free group swim- ming and diving classes held each day at 10:00 A. M. After 1:00 P. M, children under fourteen years of age will be charged ten cents and all oth- ers twenty cents. The facilities will be operated by uniformed civil service Park Department employees. Instead of the customary lockers and dressing room arrangements a basket system of checking clothes will be used, permitting a greater use of dressing room facilities. Swimming and diving exhibitions will be offered periodically at the pool. The wading pool built in connection with this project, like the wading pools in new playgrounds, will be free at all times and winter use of the pools and bathhouse plan which are designed for other sports o u t - side of the summer season, will also be free. On the roof of the bathhouse is a wide promenade sun deck, which will be open to the public for the dedication ceremonies. m t COPY OF PA^KS 1- O K lilVKDI -Tk T-ELEASS A'f.SiBNAl, CENT Al PA:Z JULY 1, 1996 TSL. J.W5SKT 4-1000 Mayor LaGucrdiQ, pa-k Commissioner ·obert LOBOS, >orks Prof-reas Administrator V c t o r Mdder, Borough \ r e s i d e n t of ueene Ceorge L. iarvey «.nd ...Iderraan Joseph J . P a r e t t i w i l l p a r t i c i p a t e on Thursday, J u l y 2nd f t 0:£0 P.M. in ceremonies in connection witn tho o f f i c i a l d e d i c a t i o n of the neve storia swiaming Pool a t Iloyt and D i t a a r s venuas, ueens. In a d d i t i o n t o the s p e a k e r s , the progress w i l l include swimming and diving e x h i b i t i o n s p a r t i c i p a t e d in by Park Department snd Jon-s nesch p e r - sonnel. J u l i a P e t e r s , "oprano of th« r e t r o p o l i t a n Opera Company, w i l l sing the c .:tar rrponpled Banner, «ceoirrp:-ni*d ty th« sixteen-pi»f?e :-:t. C a t h e r i n e ' s Band. As VM qdled attr-iCtion the ch^m-pion Sunset "a^"k t ? n - p i e c c hf.rmonicr, band, r e c r u i t e d from r arV: plny-pour.ds *imi which won the onnu r .l city-wide championship c o n t e s t on the trsi 11 in j e n t i t i l i-or-r, w i l l pl'.y d u r i n r the pool show. llie pools are equipped with underwater f l o o d l i g h t s and the sky- s c r a p e r s of ; aw York City ocroas the r i v e r sparkling with l i n t s in tn© fading tvsiilipht w i l l o f f e r a f i t t i n g n e t t i n g for t h i s modern, noteworthy p r o j e c t . This i s t' e t h i r d of ten new emlasalay pools being constructed by t h r Park De- partment 7.ith 4.P.A. funds t o be opened for use t h i s summer, "he area includes a swinaninp; pool 165 f e e t x 330 foot with seaii-circulfir d i v i n r r.nd wadinf pools r 165 f e e t wide on e i t h e r and. ;.he pools are equipped to handle 6670 persons a t one t i m e . Unusual design and c o n s t r u c t i o n f e a t u r e s have been i n c o r p o - r a t e d i n t o t h i s p r o j e c t , which t t e n d s upon the s i t e of n former e a r t h bottomed wading p o o l . In t h e building: houainp the t o i l e t s , showers and d r e s s i n g room facilities large wall aTeas have been constructed of gltjp Iijp brick permitting a maximum diffusion of light into the interior of the bulletins' without sacri- ficing wall space for windows. The hiph divinr tower, 5 very graceful, concrete shaft canti- levered to suspend out over V-o water, with platforms st the fiv^, eight and ten meter elevations, represents new const uction ideas. The pool will be opened from 10:00 k*M* to 10:30 P.M. Child- ren under fourteen years of age axe admitted free from 10:00 \,W. to 1:00 P.M. daily except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with fres group swimming end div- ing classes held each day at 10:00 A.M. rfter 1:00 P.M. children under four- teen years of ape are admitted for ten cents and all others for twenty cents. The facilities will be operated entirely by uniformed civil service Park Department employees. As at the Hamilton fish and Thomas Jeffer- son Swimming Pools, instead of the customary lockers and dressing room arrange- ments a basket system of checking clothes will be used permitting a preater use of dressing room facilities. The swiaming and diving pools will hold 2,400,000 gallons of water, v.hich will be filtered, treated with chemicals, heated to the proper temperature and completely reciroulated by the most modern machinery every eight hours. Attractive pool shes consisting of swiraminp end diving ex- hibitions, similar to those riven at t*s -milton Fish and Thorns?s Jefferson swimiainp; fools opening exercises, will DP offered periodically to pp.trons of the pool. In the free area ara two coraplet ly equipped playgrounds, one for girls snd sir.al.l boys *r.nn the other for larger boys. Both havs open play nreas for games. During the spring, fall and winter when the pool is not in opera- tion the bathhouse will bo oonve ted into a gymnasium and the outdoor areas will be used for basketball, volley ball, shuffleboard, handball and other active outdoor games. During freezing weather provision will be made for ice skating. use of the wading pool, playground areas and winter use of the pool find bathhouse plant will be fres to the public. DEPARTMENT OF PAJ$|* A FOR RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL P H I^ V · July 1 1936. TEL. Regent 4-1000 ' ' The, Department of Parks announces that appropriate Independence Day Celebrations will be conducted in all playgrounds within the five bor- oughs, Saturday, July 4th. · For many years it has been the policy of the Department of Parks to conduct jjr^grams in keeping with a safe and sane celebration. Activities will consist of athletic events, dance festivals, historical playlets, mus- ical revues, water carnivals and baby parades. The most outstanding of these events will be conducted at the following play areas; Borough of Bronx Mullaly Playground 165th Street & Jerome Avenue 11;30 A.M. DeVoe 188th St. & Fordham Road - Sedgwick Avenue 2:00 P.M. Maeombs South Playground 2:00 P.M. Fort Independence 238th St. & Sedgwick Avenue Borough of Richmond 10:00 A.M. Clove Lakes Park Victory Blvd. & Clove Road 12:00 Noon Faber Park Richmond Terrace & Faber S t . 3:00 P.M. Model Playground Jewett & Castleton Avenues 2:00 P.M. Richmond Playground Park Ave. t o Vreeland S t . 2:30 'P.M. Stapleton Playground Hygeia Place & Grove S t . Borough of Queens 2:00 P.M. Flushing Playground 11:00 A.M. Rainy Park 33rd Road-Vernon Ave.East River 2:00 P.M. 0'Connell Playground 113 Ave. 196th S t . - S t . Albans 2:00 P.M. Jackson Heights 30th Ave. - 85th S t . 2:00 P.M. Anawanda Playground Grandview Ave. & Stanhope S t . Borough of Manhattan 11:00 A.M. J . Hood Wright 178th S t . & Ft.Washington Ave. 2:00 P.M. Riverside & 96th S t r e e t 2:00 P.M. Gulick Sheriff, Broome & Delancey S t s . 2:00 P.M. St. Catherine's 67th S t . & 10th Avenue 2:00 P.M. Hudson & Essex 3:00 P.M. Hudson Leroy & Hudson S t r e e t s Borough of Brooklyn 2:30 P.M. James J. Byrne Fourth Ave. & Third Street 2:30 P.M. Lincoln Terrace Rockaway Ave. & Eastern Parkway 2:30 P.M. Leiv Eiriksson 65th St. & Fifth Avenue 2:30 P.M. New Utrecht Ave. & 70th Street Provisions are being made to accommodate large crowds of specta- tors at the Canoe Regatta on 72nd Street Lake and at the official opening of the Lawn Bowling Green in Central Park. These events will be conducted at 10:00 A. M. END 1 \ DEPARTMENT OF PARKS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARSENAL, CENTRAL PARK ' JULY 1, 1936 TEL. REgent 4-1000 PROGRAM OPENING OF THE NEW MUNICIPAL STADIUM RANDALLS ISLAND NEW YORK CITY SATURDAY, JULY 1 1 , 1936 at 2:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M. I n t r o d u c t o r y Remarks by Gustavus T. Kirby, E s q . , P r e s i d e n t , P u b l i c School A t h l e t i c League 2isO3 P.M. Commissioner Robert Moses, P r e s i d i n g 2:06 P.M. Honorable V i c t o r Ridder 2:09 P.M. Honorable Harry Hopkins 2:12 P.M. Dr. John J . F i n l e y 2:15 P.M. Mayor F. H. La Guardia 2:18 P.M. The Star Spangled Banner Flag Raising Athletic Games Begin The ceremonies and games will be broadcast over stations WJZ, WEAF, WOR, and WNYC. END