Construction underway for new $92M Staten Island recreation center that will replace Cromwell Center

New York’s Staten Island. On Friday, the Advance/SILive.com reported that construction workers had started work on a new leisure complex that will cost $92 million.

An Advance/SILive.com photographer visited the early stages of construction almost a year after Mayor Eric Adams and numerous other city leaders attended a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Mary Cali Dalton Recreation Center in February 2024.

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