We have just received the following email from the NYC Parks Dept: 

Hello Community Board 8 –

Just wanted to alert you that St. John’s Rec Center will be opening to the public on 4/29.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

The official Parks Statement is listed below:

As of Monday, April 29, 2019, St. John’s Recreation Center will re-open to the public. We are grateful to everyone for their patience as we made necessary repairs to the center, and we are excited to welcome everyone back. Recreation center members will enjoy the new gym floors, new Media Lab computers, aesthetic improvements inside the building, and a new Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. We encourage those with recreation center memberships to return, and we encourage those without memberships to stop by, take a tour and sign up

This is fantastic news as the center has been closed for over a year.