The playground at Lehigh Park, at 17th Avenue and Center Street in southeast Albany, has been wonderfully transformed since the last time I saw it in October 2024.
The playground was still under construction then. The city’s parks crew was the middle of bolting together the play equipment, and the artificial turf had yet to be laid down.
The playground cost the city around $237,000. Some time last year it was opened, and I missed that occasion. Last week a bike ride took me back to the Lehigh Neighborhood, and I stopped at the park for a look at Albany’s first playground variously described as inclusive, adaptive and “sensory-fiendly.”…