FLATLANDS — Nowadays, when “Floyd Bennett Field” is mentioned, most Brooklynites — or at any rate those under the age of 50 — think of Aviator Sports and Recreation complex.
Opened just a few years ago, the popular complex sponsors basketball, flag football, indoor soccer, ice skating, rock climbing and other sports. In addition, the now-unsued British Concorde plane, usually on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, is now being housed at Aviator while the Intrepid is being repaired.
FLATLANDS — Nowadays, when “Floyd Bennett Field” is mentioned, most Brooklynites — or at any rate those under the age of 50 — think of Aviator Sports and Recreation complex.
Opened just a few years ago, the popular complex sponsors basketball, flag football, indoor soccer, ice skating, rock climbing and other sports. In addition, the now-unsued British Concorde plane, usually on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, is now being housed at Aviator while the Intrepid is being repaired.
Dave Lutz of the non-profit Friends of Gateway group applauded most of Weiner’s ideas. However, he said, “I would like to find out where the money is to make it happen. The National Park Service has been stymied by a prejudice toward the big western parks [such as Yosemite and Yellowstone]. The National Parks web site is so big that Gateway sort of gets lost.”
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