"How can you delete all the messages about being closed from here AND your website? Do you know how many people will show up only to be disappointed? Put the message back so at least people know." - Facebook The Donald Trump run Lasker Rink located at the north end of Central Park, opened for the season on October 27th but a message posted on the Lasker Facebook page on Friday afternoon said it had been closed down. (Photo: Michael Appleton for The New York Times)
"The City engineers have been through our facility and realized the refrigeration plant must be replaced. Lasker Rink will not be open during the 2014-2015 skating season," the message said as first reported by NY 1.
By Saturday however announcements on the Facebook page and the rink’s Trump website had mysteriously disappeared. And no reference of the issue can be heard on rink's voice mail message.
No signs were posted at the rink about the closing.
The Times reports that last night the Parks Department said it would attempt to fix the rink’s concrete slab and valves to identify and repair the source of a leak “in the hope of reopening the rink to the public later this season.”No signs were posted at the rink about the closing.
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The day after the skating rink at the North end of Central Park abruptly announced that it was closing for the season, the parks department said on Saturday that it would try to make repairs so that it could reopen at some point this winter, according to the New York Times.
The site, named Lasker Rink and operated by the Trump Organization, announced on Friday that city engineers determined that its refrigeration plant needed to be replaced. Rink management notified the various hockey groups that used the rink of the closing, sending them scrambling to find other places to play.
But on Saturday evening, the parks department said in a statement that it would attempt to fix the rink’s concrete slab and valves to identify and repair the source of a leak “in the hope of reopening the rink to the public later this season.”
Facebook post on Sunday morning.
“In the meantime, the Trump Organization, along with NYC Parks, will work with the community and other area rinks to try to accommodate hockey and skating groups who call Lasker Rink home,” the statement added.
“Refunds will also be issued to any organizations who reserved and paid for use of the rink during the time that it will be closed.”
“It’s nothing short of devastating right now,” said John Sanful, the executive director of Ice Hockey in Harlem, a nonprofit that has used the rink for years.
“There were 240 kids scheduled to be in the program, and we’re still hoping to get them on the ice this year.” Mr. Sanful said that on Saturday, a group of 9- and 10-year-olds and the organization’s girls’ hockey team had gone to a rink in Brewster, N.Y., about 50 miles north of Manhattan, to practice.
The Lasker site operates a public swimming pool in the summer. In the colder months, it has two outdoor rinks that host youth and adult hockey leagues as well as public skating sessions.
The rinks opened for the season at the end of October, but a message posted on the site’s Facebook page on Friday afternoon said they had been closed down. By Saturday, the announcements on the Facebook page and the rink’s website had been removed.
The rink’s management did not return requests for comment.
On Saturday afternoon, the rink, which is near East 106th Street, was empty, with pools of water gathering on the surface. No signs were posted about the closing. Finding the gates closed, would-be skaters departed to make other plans.
Read More:
New York Times - November 15, 2014 - By Emma G. Fitzsimmons
Refrigeration woes to close Central Park’s Lasker Rink for winter season
New York Daily News November 15, 2014 - By Larry McShane
New York Daily News November 15, 2014 - By Larry McShane
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