“The playground features a Dutch decorative theme that honors the European colonists that settled in New York and Amsterdam in the 17th century. A windmill-shaped spray shower, painted murals of Dutch river scenes, a colored concrete map of New York City, and eight medallions depicting plants and native wildlife are all part of the design of Dutch Kills Playground.”
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/dutch-kills-playground/history
With these facilities, people can have exercise or play a sport. Kids can have fun in the spray showers or use the playgrounds. The area around the park is mostly residence, the people living in those apartments can have fun or some exercise in this public park.
“Urban development and industrialization caught up with the rural hamlet in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Long Island Rail Road arrived in 1861, and several factories opened in the area. Dutch Kills joined Astoria Village, Hunter’s Point, Ravenswood, Middletown, and Blissville (now Sunnyside) to form Long Island City in 1870. The Queensboro Bridge, opened in 1909, directly linked the community to Manhattan.”
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/dutch-kills-playground/history
The park itself also has a bit of history attached to it, it was said to be reconstructed 20 years ago but they only started construction now. There weren’t enough people to urge the construction of the park. It is in these 20 years that people noticed something.
The Dutch Kills Playground, is set for a $4.5 million reconstruction.
https://qns.com/story/2016/11/21/dutch-kills-playground-to-get-makeover/
City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) and Queens Borough Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski unveiled designs for the project Tuesday that includes upgraded play equipment, play spaces and safety surfacing for both younger and older children, as well as a shaded adult seating area and renovated bathrooms. The renovations will also include new landscaping to increase the amount of green space in the park. The community was able to brainstorm and suggest design elements at a public scoping meeting in April.
Dutch Kills Playground, located on Crescent Street between 37th and 36th avenues, is used every day by students from PS 112, IS 204, and the Baccalaureate School for Global Education. It is also a community hub, with children, adults, and seniors frequenting the park’s play areas and sports facilities. The Dutch Kills Playground has not undergone major updates in almost 20 years.
This article was from more than two years ago. The budget has been reduced to $3 million and nothing major has happened to the park, after a long time of two years. We need this issue fixed immediately. Sign our petition!
https://www.change.org/p/joanne-amagrande-dutch-kills-playground-renovation
Parks obtained this land as a site for another play area in 1946. Plans had been drawn up for the new property in 1945, however development was deferred. The City later chose to utilize the site for both another school building and play area. The Dutch Kills School, P.S. 112, respected its first understudies in 1952, and the play area opened to the general population in 1954. The play area was called Crescent Street Playground for the road to its west, and later wound up Dutch Kills Playground to respect the area.
“Kill” is a Dutch word which signifies “little stream,” and the zone takes its name from the 1643 Dutch settlement close to the “kill” that streamed south to Newtown Creek. A little town encompassed by distant homesteads created here amid the seventeenth and eighteenth hundreds of years.
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/dutch-kills-playground
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