Frozen Puddle Re-Opens in Newport
The sad little skating rink in Newport opens for the season today. The miniature rink was intended to attract non-Newport residents to the retail stores at the north end of the development, overlooking the fact that customers probably want interesting retail options, not a skating rink.
Skating at Newport will set you back a $5 admission fee and $5 rental. Skating at Bryant Park is Free.
Newport Skates
Skating at Newport will set you back a $5 admission fee and $5 rental. Skating at Bryant Park is Free.
Newport Skates
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17 Comments:
Hey now,I like Newport Skates. Though it doesn't seem to attract non-Newport residents, it's a cute little rink-better than what was there before. What was there before?
Bryant Park is free to skate, but their skate rental is more than the cost of skates and admission at our townie rink.
Wow. You really are an ass ian. Someone tries to do something half decent like build a little rink that people like and you rip on it? Where is the rink that you built?
The cost to rent skates at Bryant is 12 bucks alone. The cost at Newport is 5 admission+5 skate rental=$10 . Which one is cheaper? You do the math. This guy who wrote this is an idiot. The skating rink is a great addition to the area.
There is nothing altruistic about the Newport Skating rink; it was built as an attempt to entice customers to Newport's River Market. But with such compelling retail stores like a second HSBC bank, a dry cleaners, and optometrist, there is little reason to think anyone would want to come for a day of browsing the shops and ice skating at the River Market.
Moreover, if you happen to own a pair of skates, Bryant Park is free; lockers are free provided you bring your own lock. Free is less than $5, and instead of skating in the middle of a construction zone, you're surrounded by midtown Manhattan.
There is nothing "half decent" about building an undersized, over priced skating rink. If the Lefraks really wanted to contribute to the city, they would have built the park planned between 14th and 16th Streets instead of allowing it to become a graveyard of unplanted trees.
Is $10 to skate as ridiculous as 1 hour max metered parking at 10min intervals 7 days a week with no parking at all between 10pm to 7am BEHIND the shore buildings (i can understand on the side of where retail is located). NYC doesnt even have as strict parking rules in the most high traffic areas
you're waaaay off man. the skating rink is cool! they charge admisssion to skate in central park! granted its a much nicer/larger rink, but its not like free is the norm.
they can get better stores, for sure..but why bash the skating rink??
Because Ian is a little simp who reflexively hates anything successful that did not take his ever so important opinions into account. Waa waa I'm Ian and I hate everything at Newport because no one ever asks ME what I want and bwing baby a bottle too.
ladies and gentlemen, welcome to jersey city!
I hate the rink. I don't understand how anybody would go there. Bryant Park is free!
have you noticed that every single one of your headlines is negative? bitter much, are we? I thought you lived here and blogged about it because you liked it.
jersey city is filled with crabby buttholes! but who wouldn't be crabby as an old-timer by the rising tide of wanna-be yuppy toolbags that have washed up here with the growth of "luxury" hives like grove pt & 50 columbus? don't get me wrong, i like seeing JC getting less dumpy, but at the same time i left manhattan for a reason - namely, to get away from all the neurotic jerks.
Ian is not even an old timer. He's a crabby yuppy! Double ungood.
Time for Ian to go back to Williamsburg so he can feel like he lives in a more 'edgy' place (realtor word for ghetto).
joyous to see little kids learning to skate for the first time.
"I don't understand how anybody would go there. Bryant Park is free!"
Wait. So $5 on admission at Newport, OR:
PATH round trip $3.50 + MTA round trip $4.00 = $7.50 PLUS the value of 45 minutes round trip extra travel time. Hmmm. Which one IS the bargain now?
I love Jersey city but hate the rink. It's loud and busy.
Even though the Newport rink is small, I think it's an OK alternative to the Pershing Field if you just want to glide around a bit for fun and you'd rather go grocery shopping after skating than eat a tamale from the Pershing Field tamale truck.
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