At this time, masks are optional for all staff and visitors. Historic New England is following all state, local, and CDC safety guidelines. Historic New England has launched a series of digital visitor experiences featuring never-before-seen videos, new photography, oral histories, and archival material, including Roseland Cottage. It reflects the principles of Andrew Jackson Downing, a leading nineteenth-century tastemaker. The estate includes an icehouse, aviary, carriage barn, and the nation’s oldest surviving indoor bowling alley.
The picturesque landscape includes original boxwood-edged parterre gardens planted in the 1850s. He used Roseland Cottage as a place to entertain friends and political connections, including four U.S. Woodstock native Henry Bowen returned to his hometown after establishing a successful business in New York City. The house is a National Historic Landmark. While the house is instantly recognizable for its pink exterior, Roseland Cottage has an equally colorful interior, featuring elaborate wall coverings, heavily patterned carpets, and stained glass, much of which survives unchanged from the Victorian era. Long is a Report for America corps member and writes about culture and politics in New York City for The Amsterdam News.A colorful summer retreat Woodstock, Connecticut Built in 1846 in the newly fashionable Gothic Revival style, Roseland Cottage was the summer home of Henry and Lucy Bowen and their young family. Assemblymember Charles Barron and Brooklyn Borough President Adams also contributed to the funding for the senior fitness hub.Īriama C. Barron worked to get $120,000 in discretionary funding from DFTA and Maimonides Medical Center pledged $76,700. The $230,000 project was made possible through support from the Department of the Aging (DFTA) and Maimonides Medical Center, said NYCHA in a release. Mata said the project is under the umbrella of NYCHA’s Connected Communities Initiative, which strives to transform underutilized open spaces into amenities for residents. NYCHA Health Initiatives leader Andrea Mata said that Pink Houses really is a “crown jewel” in engaged outdoor spaces in NYCHA because of its urban farm, garden, and senior fitness hub.
“This is a part of the favor that this community has garnered,” said Councilmember Inez Barron, “because we are a community that’s talking about moving forward, reclaiming our culture, and getting it back to how it was when people our age were growing up. Pean said that she was thankful for those who came together to provide free legal help navigating NYCHA’s complicated paperwork and who advised the group on how to find money. Pean called the previous playground area “a mess.” She said it was a hard fought battle to get the fitness project funded and off the ground, so to speak. The conception of the idea for the fitness center was about three years ago, well before the pandemic fatally threatened the lives of seniors living throughout NYCHA developments, said Pean. There’s a total of 530 out of 3,569 residents who are seniors, or 62 years of age and older, living at Pink Houses, said NYCHA. “The continual struggle was to find people who could do it and the funding to do it.” “We came from this conversation of ‘we deserve more,’” said Pean. As a resident of Pink Houses, she and her fellow seniors have been the driving force behind it.
“It’s an outdoor senior facility, specifically for seniors because a lot of times seniors aren’t thought of,” said Studio 397 founder Samantha Josaphat, who designed the space.Ĭolette Pean, executive director of East New York Restoration Development Corp, was incredibly excited and proud of the project finally coming to fruition. The actual building of the center took about six weeks to complete from the end of August, said Equest Builders Corporation Founder Joan Sanderman-Brown. When government and residents work together, this is the product.”Įvery facet of the fitness center project was led by Black women, from the East New York Restoration Development Corp and Pink Houses Tenants Association to the contracting and architect companies, Studio 397 and Equest Builders Corporation. “To find out that this particular project was created by some sisters who put their minds together in partnership with elected officials,” said Brooklyn Deputy Borough President Ingrid Lewis-Martin, who stood in for Eric Adams, “it’s magnificent. It was previously a dilapidated playground. The area the fitness center rests on is newly refurbished with a running track and exercise equipment. Seniors and residents, past and present, at New York City Housing Authority celebrated the long-awaited unveiling of the senior fitness center on the grounds of the development last Wednesday, Oct.
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