"People sit here, have picnics, birthday parties, celebrations. It's not meant to be a huge park taken over by skateboarders,"
"There was never consultation with the community. No one ever really had a discussion with us,"
"This is a New York City park. This is not a group of people's park that happen to live across the street or nearby,"
"A lot of skaters in New York City have to skate in places that are on the edges of our city, under bridges, next to highways, next to tunnels in urban areas that are just not healthy, dirty and are extremely dangerous,"
A city plan proposes a skate park on a greenspace hill between the Brooklyn Central Library and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Renderings show a mix of paved and green elements intended as a shared community space with world-class facilities for skaters. Friends of Mount Prospect Park is campaigning to stop the project, citing everyday recreational uses of the hill, safety and environmental concerns, and lack of community consultation. Supporters, including the Pablo Ramirez Foundation, argue the park would serve all New Yorkers and provide safer, healthier alternatives to hazardous urban skating locations. The issue pits neighborhood green-space preservation against providing recreational infrastructure for underserved youth.
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