Important update on the dog park idea.
Last week I wrote about the idea of turning the lot on 29th Street & 10th Avenue into a dog park (What about a dog park on the vacant lot on 29th Street & 10th Avenue? — High Line 28 Block Association). Earlier today I cold-called a number I dug up that is associated with the owner of the lot. After about the tenth ring, on the brink of “your call has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system,” someone picked up.
After introducing myself, I explained that I am the organizer of a new block association that covers 28th & 29th Streets between 10th & 11th Avenues. I said that, to the extent I was speaking to the owner of the space on 29th Street and 10th Avenue, I was calling to gauge his interest in turning the space into a dog park, even on a non-permanent basis.
He did not say no. In fact he told me to send him a written proposal. I will do that shortly.
To those of you who have been watching this block association for a few weeks now wondering what it’s all about, this is what it’s about. A dog park in that space would provide this block with an actual, natural, casual meeting place where residents—and their dogs—could get to know each other. It is the perfect initiative for us.
If any of the above has caught your interest, now is the time to engage. By that I mean: share this update on Facebook, Instagram, MySpace, and Tinder; forward it to your friends; forward it to your enemies; tell your coworkers about it; call your mother about it (you need to call her anyway); print it out, put it in a bottle, and throw it in the Hudson. Leave a comment on this post about it. Write back to me about it. Start an argument with your significant other about it. Go on an unhinged rant on the subway about it. Do whatever feels right. The fact is we’re going to need numbers and exposure if we’re ever going to make this work.
To be clear, I make no promises whatsoever about this initiative actually coming to fruition, and the owner of that space would be well within his rights to ignore me from here on out or tell us in no uncertain terms to get off his lawn. The only promise I can make is that I have a tendency to execute on ideas, regardless of whether I even have a dog.
Posts you missed this week:
Film shoots on/near our block (Raising Kanan and Law & Order SVU): Film shoots on our block: Raising Kanan currently on 28th St. b/t 10th & 11th Ave., and Law & Order SVU previously on 27th St. b/t 10th & 11th Ave. — High Line 28 Block Association
Article in Chelsea Community News about rise and fall of NYC fertility doctor: Article about the rise and fall of a famous fertility doctor in NYC, Dr. Niels Lauersen. — High Line 28 Block Association
