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Ground Breaking Ceremony

On July 17th, City Ice Pavilion celebrated it's official Ground Breaking ceremony on the roof top of 47-32 32nd Place. Distinguished guests included:

Eric Gioia, New York City Council Member, District 26
Rod Gilbert, all-time leading scorer for The New York Rangers
Paul Lloyd, President of U.S.A. Hockey, Eastern Division
Erik Ekstein, Founder and President of Ekstein Development

From public skating to hockey and figure skating, the City Ice Pavilion is the city’s newest ice rink – and the only roof-top rink in the five boroughs.

A world-class skating facility, the City Ice Pavilion will feature a NHL size ice rink that will be open during the winter season and will be sheltered from inclement weather by a sky-high Yeadon air dome. The rink will feature public skating, an ice skating school for ice hockey training and figure skating, private lessons and skills clinics for children and adults of all skill levels. The City Ice Pavilion will also feature a gourmet coffee bar.

The groundbreaking press event on July 17th will celebrate the kick-off of construction. The City Ice Pavilion is scheduled to open its doors to the public in October 2008.

Ekstein Development is the developer of this project and has a mission of bringing the experience of ice skating to the greater New York Community. The rink is expected to be made available for use by local highschool teams, intramural leagues and individuals. On Monday and Wednesday afternoons, the rink will offer free skating classes to community groups.

With the addition of the City Ice Pavilion, the heart of Long Island City is quickly becoming a major recreation center – with a brand new tennis center and full health and fitness club at the YMCA of Long Island City all within a two block radius.

Groundbreaking Ceremony (28 images)

The groundbreaking press event on July 17th celebrated the kick-off of construction.

New LIC rink brings the cool

City Ice Pavilion to offer figure skating, hockey to borough rooftop

By Nathan Duke

July 24, 2008

Long Island City residents in search of affordable skating will need to look no farther when western Queens' first ice rink opens on the roof of a 32nd Place building in October.

The $4 million rink, known as the City Ice Pavilion, will include an ice skating school, free public skating and ice hockey training. The center, the first of its kind in western Queens, is at 47-32 32nd Place in Long Island City.

"We've long needed something like this here," said Rod Gilbert, the all-time leading New York Rangers scorer who attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the rink last Thursday. "Kids in the community will benefit from it."

City Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Sunnyside) said neighborhood skaters have long been forced to travel to Manhattan to play ice hockey or skate.

"Like most kids who grew up here, I'd have had a better chance learning to fly an airplane than ice skate," he said.

The rink, two blocks from the No. 7 train on Queens Boulevard, will open in October and close for the season in April, said Jill Feldman, a City Ice Pavilion spokeswoman. At full capacity, the rink can hold 500 skaters.

The rink, which meets National Hockey League standards in its size, will feature a number of classes, including ice and figure skating, as well as youth and adult hockey leagues, Feldman said.

Attendees who bring their own skates will only pay $5 to use the rink, while borough students will be able to take free skating classes after school Mondays and Wednesdays, she said. The pavilion will also house a gourmet coffee bar.

The 85-foot-by-200-foot rink, which will shelter visitors from winter weather under a large air dome, will also have on-site parking. The pavilion's staff will include former and current professional hockey players.

The borough's only other ice skating rink is located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

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