So Mr. Park "bought these thick cushiony mats for $45 apiece and put them throughout the classrooms," recalled Mr. King, the occupational therapist.
Since 1997, when the industrial park bought the facility and surrounding lots and waterways, it has become part of Red Hook's renewal.
Given the location and dimensions, development would not be possible, so might they pave it for a slim little skateboard park? Buy it to insist that an unloved neighbor move their ugly fence?
The occupants of that 54-unit park bought it at a foreclosure auction in October, and now, said Pat Scheidegger, 68, the secretary of the residents' association, "There's all these laws we've had to find out about.
After Mr. Park bought AJS Wholesalers, a candy and tobacco distributor in Manhattan, he used program money to pay for new furniture for AJS Wholesalers' offices, said Mr. Tirado, the former aide to Mr. Park.
Mr. Park buys 400 pounds of pogi kimchi, a traditional version of kimchi, each week from the Ko-Am Food Corporation in Flushing, Queens, where a kitchen produces 10 varieties of the fermented vegetable dish.
After much else had failed, Park bought a golf counter and awarded positive points for desirable behaviors (saying hello, using people's names, making eye contact), negative points for undesirable ones (screaming, crying, hitting).
This is what Cowdray Park, bought in 1908 by Weetman Pearson, First Viscount Cowdray, looked like until Christie's sold off this week over 1,000 lots ranging from porcelain and furniture to paintings in a three-day auction conducted on the grounds.
Park bought the Homestead works from U.S. Steel in 1988.
Park bought his stake in 1994 when GM decided to dump some components plants in an attempt to avoid major capital improvements.
