Chelsea Recreation Center

430 West 25th Street | Chelsea | built 2004

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1974
June 3
Construction begins on a new Chelsea recreation center
The city starts building a replacement for the old Chelsea recreation center, a former bathhouse on West 28th Street demolished in 1964 for a postal annex. The new building at 430 West 25th Street is meant to restore the neighborhood's public facility. Work continues for less than two years.
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1976
January 19
New York's fiscal crisis halts construction
Work on the unfinished recreation center is abandoned because of the city's fiscal crisis. Its windows are sealed with concrete and its steel girders are left exposed. Neighbors keep asking for the project to be completed for the next 25 years.
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2001
June 7
Construction resumes after 25 years
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, state senator Thomas Duane, and several City Council members mark the restart of work by swinging gold sledgehammers at a brick wall. Financing becomes available as the city's economy improves in the early 2000s.
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2004
May 11
The Chelsea Recreation Center opens
Mayor Michael Bloomberg inaugurates the center at a ribbon-cutting in its gymnasium, after a final cost of $22.4 million. The 56,500-square-foot building has a six-lane pool, basketball and volleyball courts, fitness rooms, and dance studios. A five-panel mural of 175,000 tiles beside the pool is a gift from the Italian Trade Commission and Bisazza Mosaico.
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