Closing Bell: A Skate Park For Gowanus
As we learned at a recent community board meeting, a local group is still pushing to transform the under-used public park on 3rd Avenue and Douglass Street into a skateboarding paradise complete with new bathrooms and equipment. Totally tubular! GMAP
As we learned at a recent community board meeting, a local group is still pushing to transform the under-used public park on 3rd Avenue and Douglass Street into a skateboarding paradise complete with new bathrooms and equipment. Totally tubular! GMAP
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Anyone over the age of 25 that has a skateboard is a LOSER.
Dont think you will hear from too many NIMBY’s on this one – Have you ever been near that park? The nioses coming out of the projects next door at all hours will easily drown out any skateboarders.
I’m all for it if it draws the skateboarders away from other spots around the borough–like from in front of the Brooklyn Museum for instance. Couldn’t someone have looked at the plans for the Museum redo and said “maybe you want to tone the step and railing action down a bit because this will make one really gnarly skate park.
I got 2 words for ya:
Insurance policy.
Actually 5 words…
Multi million dollar insurance policy.
Also, ever- hear- what a skatepark sounds like?
Here come the NIMBYs.
Awesome. I hope it happens. That would make two in the nabe, assuming the one planned for JJ Byrne park actually happens. To the lawyer who posted at 4:15: you know why people become skaters? So they don’t become like you!
It’ll be great entertainment. You’ll be able to watch all the aged hipsters break their backs when they try to do a simple ollie or a 360 flip. I see it all the time.
Rad!
4:15, the city already manages seven skate parks:
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/facilities/af_skate_park.html