You're Invited To RIOC Community Workshop January 8 To Help Plan Vision For $11 Million Lighthouse Park Improvements And Nearly Doubling Size To Include Additional 3 1/2 Acres Of Coler Parking Lot For Passive And Active Recreational Space - Also, Take The Online Lighthouse Park Survey

The Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) is hosting a January 8 community workshop

Image From RIOC

to help plan improvements to Lighthouse Park and expanding



it's footprint to include portions of the adjacent Coler Hospital parking lot.



According to RIOC:

Let your voice be heard! On Wednesday, January 8, 2020, from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, RIOC will be sponsoring a workshop about the planned work for Lighthouse Park. The workshop will take place at the Good Shepherd Community Center (Upper Level) 543 Main Street. Please share this with all of your neighbors. Children are welcome! Please take the survey by clicking here:

and some background about the project from this October 7, 2019 memo excerpt to RIOC President Susan Rosenthal from RIOC Assistant VP Of Capital Planning & Projects Jonna Carmona-Graf:

... Lighthouse Park is a 3.5‐acre passive park that provides panoramic views of New York City. The park offers barbeque grills, a picnic grove and rolling lawns with mature canopy trees. The park also includes the historic light house designed by James Renwick and erected in 1842.

Recent improvements to the park include upgrades to the seawall railings, reconstruction of the foot bridges and general repairs of damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. However, many areas of the park including the adjacent parking areas have deteriorated over time and need repair. We are committed to investing approximately $11M in transformative capital improvements to the park and its’ parking area. As a result, RIOC sought for design services to repurpose the parking lot into useable park space that better serves the community, as well as, complete needed upgrades to the existing park amenities. When complete, the park will expand to nearly 7 acres of passive and active space....

Take the Lighthouse Park Survey - questions include:

Answer the full survey here.