When New York City’s Central Park was transformed into “the world’s most innovative and stimulating playground” on October 3, Blockader crowd control barriers and barrier jackets were there.

With a goal of showing the importance of playful learning, the “Ultimate Block Party” attracted 50,000 attendees and featured more than two dozen unique interactive activities designed to educate and entertain kids.

Organized by Play for Tomorrow, a consortium dedicated to shedding light on the crucial role of play in children’s development and education, the event rented Blockader barriers for line management at the entrance. Barriers also delineated space around the various activities. To accessorize the barriers and make them more visually vibrant, Blockader also supplied the event with 125 barrier jackets in four different colors which featured the wording “Ultimate Block Party!: The arts and sciences of play.”

Click here (http://www.ultimateblockparty.com/slideshow.html) to see the Ultimate Block Party website’s slideshow of images from the event, including pictures of Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay reading to her son in front of the jacketed Blockader barriers.

Blockader barriers are supplied by the Pittsburgh-based Tamis Corporation, which has a long-standing relationship with long-time Super Bowl contractor Noel Lesley Event Services (located in Ashland, Oregon). Through its Nationwide Rental Program, Blockader compliments Lesley’s own supply of Blockader barricades for major events such as the Super Bowl. As a leading wholesaler to event contractors, Blockader maintains the inventory needed by suppliers such as Lesley in cases where the demand for crowd control barricades exceeds their on-hand supply.

Truckloads of Blockader barricades became part of the Super Bowl site mix, providing line management at entrances (where patrons entered security checkpoints), ticket windows, and escalator entrances and exits, as well as at pre-game fan events.

The successful 24-year track record of Noel Lesley Event Services (www.noellesley.com) as the supplier of event services to the Super Bowl, combined with Tamis’ ability to supply large quantities of crowd control barriers to major events, once again resulted in a pairing which provided effective crowd management at the Super Bowl.