Renovated Tappan Street Playground is Re-Opened

Mayor Alberto G. Santos, the Town Council and members of the Recreation Commission formally reopened Tappan Playground, located in Kearny on Tappan Street near Davis Avenue. Tappan Playground is the latest Kearny park to be updated and modernized. The 10,000 square foot or 0.23 acre park includes a decorative gazebo and two play structures for children ages 3 to 5 and 5 to 12 years old. The park also includes new fencing, landscaping, decorative bench seating, decorative trash receptacles, rubberized safety surfaces for the play structures and light fixtures which help create an attractive area for toddlers, young children, their parents and neighborhood residents.

Neglia Engineering Associates designed the new park and was the construction manager for the project. Community meetings and neighborhood workshops organized by Mayor Santos and Second Ward Council Members Laura Cifelli-Pettigrew and Madeline Peyko generated valuable suggestions that were used in the final design. The construction contract was competitively bid to Rich Picerno Builders. The total cost of the project, approximately $375,000.00, was funded entirely through the award of a New Jersey Green Acres Program grant and loan.

According to Mayor Santos, “Grant funding has enabled the Town of Kearny to renovate its playgrounds and park areas. This is a dramatic transformation of Tappan Playground, which used to be an asphalt-covered, age-worn playground and has now become a state-of-the art play facility with attractive landscaping.”
 

Mayor Alberto Santos is joined by neighborhood children and Council Members Laura Cifelli-Pettigrew, Madeline Peyko and Carol Jean Doyle at the Tappan Playground ribbon-cutting ceremony