"The Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center will soon be alive with possibility - kids learning to swim, cook, and grow their own food; friends coming together on the court; neighbors of every generation creating and connecting, from the gym to the podcast studio. This will be a space where the city meets itself, built to serve the people who call it home,"
"When I dropped the seed to make this happen, I wasn't sure if I would see it happen, but we, as elected officials and leaders, have to get to a point where it is okay for something to be completed [even if we] may not be there to see it,"
A new Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center opened in East Flatbush on February 9 as the first new city-run recreation center in more than a decade. The project took 13 years to complete and cost $141 million. The 74,000-square-foot facility includes an Olympic-sized pool, gym, weightlifting and cardio rooms, a teaching kitchen, afterschool and event spaces, community classrooms, and a media lab named for Dr. Roy A. Hastick Sr. The center was created as a community-driven response to rampant gun violence and the 2013 police shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray to provide youth with safe recreation and public-safety benefits.
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