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QUEENS WEEKLY, DECEMBER 8, 2019
Van Bramer announces $1.3M renovation to LIC park
BY BILL PARRY
A tiny park in Long Island
City will get a $1.3 million
makeover, City Councilman
Jimmy Van Bramer
announced on Monday.
Sixteen Oaks Grove
Park, a triangular space
dominated by 16 oak trees
between 21st Street and
14th Street, will undergo
numerous renovations.
“This is a beautiful
space that is essentially
empty,” Van Bramer said.
“We can add appropriate
benches and greenery
to beautify this space for
those who live around this
park. Since the approval
of the budget in June, we
have made a devoted effort
in improving our public
spaces throughout Queens.
The renovations provides
our residents with a place
they can be proud to visit
and enjoy with families
and friends alike.”
Sixteen Oaks Grove
Park is popular with residents
of the Ravenswood
Houses just a block away.
“I’m so glad to hear that
Sixteen Oaks Park will get
the funding to fix up this
little park in the middle of
our community,” Ravenswood
Residents Association
President Carol Wlkins
said. “The sixteen oak trees
create such a lovely shade
in the summertime and a
place for parents waiting
for their children to return
home from school, the community
to rest when coming
home from shopping or
waiting for the bus or even
coming from the library to
sit and read a book.”
Wilkins added that she
is “looking forward to the
surrounding neighborhood’s
help in creating a
welcoming space for us
all.”T
he park is directly
across from Community
School 111Q.
“The groundbreaking
overall of the piece of land
into a playground speaks
volumes of the continued
and extraordinary efforts
by Jimmy Van Bramer and
his team to ensure that the
City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer discusses changes coming to Sixteen Oaks Grove Park in Long Island City as part of its
$1.3 million renovation. Courtesy of Van Bramer’s office
children in our community
have a safe and beautiful
place to play and pass the
time,” Community School
111Q Principal Dionne Jaggon
said. “It is particularly
special for me because
the scholars closest to my
heart will see the transformation
daily as they come
to school. Now the scholars
have a renovated area
to laugh and dream, build
lasting friendships and
the adults will continue to
applaud the power of positive
play and building lasting
friendships. The sky is
only the direction!”
Reach reporter Bill Parry
by e-mail at bparry@schnepsmedia.
com or by phone
at (718) 260–4538.
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