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Brownsville Park gets new paint job through community service

Volunteers painting and scraping in Red Hook

Crown Castle, the nation’s largest provider of shared communications infrastructure, hosted its third annual Connected by Good community service initiative on May 8. More than 1,880 employees spent their day planting, building, painting and improving public spaces around the country. The Floyd Patterson Ballfields, located in Brownsville, were one of those 22 chosen nationwide sites.

Forty-eight employees from the company’s New York City offices helped scrape off existing paint at a public seating area and repainted walls, railings and nearby fire hydrants.

“It really is about giving back,” Rory Whelan, Crown Castle’s director of government relations, said on-site. “We wanted to get our hands dirty, and help enhance and revitalize this park because we really believe in Brownsville’s future.”

Crown Castle employees at the end of the day. Photo by Erin De Gregorio
Crown Castle employees at the end of the day at the Floyd Patterson Ballfields. Photo by DeGregorio.

“Corporate citizenship can greatly enhance our communities, harnessing the philanthropic potential of the private sector,” Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said. “I commend the employees who took time and effort to spruce up Floyd Patterson Ballfields, a project that improves the quality of life for children and families in Brownsville.”

 

Top photo of employees scrapping old paint and reapplying fresh paint, taken by DeGregorio

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    George Fiala has worked in radio, newspapers and direct marketing his whole life, except for when he was a vendor at Shea Stadium, pizza and cheesesteak maker in Lancaster, PA, and an occasional comic book dealer. He studied English and drinking in college, international relations at the New School, and in his spare time plays drums and fixes pinball machines.

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