{"id":41620,"date":"2026-10-13T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=41620"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:27:56","slug":"mayor-mamdani-reopens-queens-lost-battalion-hall-following-25-9-million-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/41620","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani reopens Queens\u2019 lost Battalion Hall following $25.9 million reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura today announced the reopening of Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center in Rego Park, Queens, following a $25.9 million, top-to-bottom reconstruction that brings this historic neighborhood center into the 21st century.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project delivers a more accessible and modern recreation center for Queens families, with a redesigned entrance and lobby, refurbished fitness spaces, updated restrooms, a newly painted basketball court, new equipment and upgraded safety and building systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery New Yorker should feel proud of their public spaces. Today, we\u2019re reopening Lost Battalion Hall just in time for the weather to cool down and New Yorkers to head indoors to continue playing their favorite sports all winter long,\u201d said Mayor Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith new equipment, accessibility improvements and safety upgrades, Lost Battalion Hall will be even more welcoming to New Yorkers. Whether you\u2019re here to shoot hoops, work out or hang out, this is your recreation center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years, Lost Battalion Hall has been the place where Queens families come to work out, shoot hoops and spend time with their neighbors, and we couldn\u2019t be happier to welcome everyone back,\u201d said Parks Commissioner Shimamura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project improved just about every corner of the building. It\u2019s safer, easier to get around and more comfortable no matter the season. We\u2019re grateful to the Mayor\u2019s Office, the Borough President and the City Council for investing in this center, and to the community for their patience while the work got done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lost Battalion Hall is deeply woven into the history of Queens history and culture. In the 1960s, the New York Knicks used the recreation center as an auxiliary practice facility. Over the decades, it has nurtured generations of local basketball talent, including Queens native and former NBA player Kenny \u201cThe Jet\u201d Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The building is also home to one of the last surviving Works Progress Administration murals on Parks property. The mural celebrates the building\u2019s origins as a Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) hall and remains a reminder of the center\u2019s long history of serving the community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura today announced the reopening of Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center in Rego Park, Queens, following a $25.9 million, top-to-bottom reconstruction that brings this historic neighborhood center into the 21st century.\u00a0 The project delivers a more accessible and modern recreation center for Queens families, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41621,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620\/revisions\/41621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}