New-look Tribeca Park opens.Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe joined Lower Manhattan Development Corporation President Kevin M. Rampe and Chair of Community Board 1 Madelyn Wils to celebrate the renovation of Tribeca Park. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC LMDC Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (New York City, NY, USA) LMDC Lake Merritt Dance Center (Oakland, California) LMDC Logistics Management Development Course LMDC Laser Motion & Development Company ) allocated $715,000 to revitalize Tribeca Park. Said Benepe, "The renovation of Tribeca Park is part of our City's commitment to bringing new open spaces to Lower Manhattan and we thank Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Pataki and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation for their vital support." "New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's parks are our back yards, our living rooms, and often our outdoor dining rooms," said LMDC President Rampe. "The revitalization of Tribeca Park is one of the over a dozen new and revitalized parks and green spaces in Lower Manhattan made possible under the leadership of Governor Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg." Parks & Recreation has reconstructed Tribeca park, adding new bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. and granite block pavement in a geometric circular pattern. New shrubs, including Manhattan euonymus euonymus (y  ŏn`ĭməs): see staff tree. euonymus Any of about 170 species of shrubs, woody climbers, and small trees that make up the genus Euonymus (family and helleri holly, and perennials, such as Solomon's seal, purple coneflower coneflower, name for several American wildflowers of the family Asteraceae (aster family). The purple coneflowers (genus Echinacea), found E of the Rockies, have purple to pinkish petallike rays; some cultivated forms have white flowers. and King Alfred daffodil daffodil: see amaryllis. daffodil Bulb-forming flowering plant (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), also called common daffodil or trumpet narcissus, native to northern Europe and widely cultivated there and in North America. It grows to about 16 in. , have been planted to beautify this relaxing park. The concrete pavement and curbs have been reconstructed and new lighting and benches have also been installed. The project will be further enhanced by Assembly Member Deborah Glick's recent allocation of $200,000 to reconstruct the perimeter sidewalk. Parks & Recreation's Landscape Architect Emmanuel Thingue designed the new park and Resident Engineer Andrew Aideyan oversaw the construction. Trocom Construction served as the contractor. |
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