Senator Fahy Announces $10,000 Grant for Postage Stamp Ping Pong
ALBANY, N.Y. – Senator Patricia Fahy announced that $10,000 in operating funds were secured through her office for Postage Stamp Ping Pong Inc., a 501c3 not for profit charitable organization in Albany devoted to serving the community through the joy of chess and ping pong at 48 Central Avenue. The lot at the corner of Henry Johnson Boulevard and Central Avenue, vacant for 54 years, had been neglected and forgotten.. This past spring, they cut the ribbon and celebrated the grand opening of a new community space.
Scott Schuster, the Director of Servico, Inc., was the driving force behind the project. After a conversation with a young man standing near the lot about fond memories of playing ping pong with his father, Schuster was inspired to transform the lot into a sanctuary for healthy activity and positive connection. Once a state-owned property, Schuster had years of work to get proper usage permits and work with government partners to make the site a reality.
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