Hasta La Ideas

Whenever I’ve brought visitors to New York to the esplanade at Battery Park, they’re always surprised to see there are outdoor pool tables there. You provide ID at the nearby NYC Department of Parks & Recreation office and they lend you the balls and sticks.

Now a company called Henge is producing concrete ping pong tables that are also seeking uptake by NYC’s DPR. Both Roosevelt Island and Fort Tryon Park have orders in for the tables, and Henge has donated one to Tompkins Square Park.

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