There’s a new online petition that we found via Kensington Brooklyn, calling for the city to restore 5PM-9PM off-lease hours at the Nethermead in Prospect Park. Here the text:
We urge a return to off-leash hours in Prospect Park’s Neathermead from 5pm to 9pm, Monday through Fiday, excluding holidays. This long-standing privilege was lost during last year’s change in the NYC Off-Leash Law.
The petition can be found here.
7 responses so far ↓
1 Charles // Jun 17, 2008 at 2:28 pm
These off leash dog people want to take over the whole damn park. Hey guess what? People would like to be able to use the Nethermead, too. Don’t you already have other places to run your dogs?
2 Red Hook // Jun 17, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Good idea.
3 Janet // Jun 17, 2008 at 5:15 pm
It might be safer than their using those illegally long leashes without regard for who might be walking into them.
But does it really matter? Dogs are taken off the leash as soon as the dog can see the park, running off least everywhere in the Park without any enforcement of the rules we have.
4 Dorothy // Jun 17, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Why have leash rules at all? The NYPD doesn’t enforce the existing rules, the Parks Enforcement Patrols are only on duty from 9am-5pm (and barely do any work when they are), plus, the Board of Health and Department of Parks clearly couldn’t care less about unleashed dogs. Stop with the charades and just admit that they are kowtowing to the offleash interests.
5 Red Hook // Jun 17, 2008 at 10:43 pm
These off leash dog people want to take over the whole damn park. Hey guess what? People would like to be able to use the Nethermead, too. Don’t you already have other places to run your dogs?
I use the Nethermead every day. Have never been bothered by a dog. Could be because the big Neathermead is massive and there is plenty of space for all.
Oh, wait. I forgot. I’m not insane. If I was insane and needed to find things to rally against (since I was incapable of confronting the real problems in life) then it might bother me a lot!
Sorry, insane people.
6 Janet // Jun 18, 2008 at 6:56 am
I am not delusional or in any other way insane, but when I walk across the Long Meadow, which is also “massive”, in the early AM I have been “bothered” by out–of-control dogs, whose owners bring them from all over and consider it their turf.
7 Noisejoke // Jun 18, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I’ve brought dogs into Prospect Park for twenty years. Whatever the rules have been, I’ve obeyed them. When the rules changed for mountain biking, I obeyed them as well.
I’ve allowed my dogs off leash only when and where it has been allowed. And when possible, informed other dog owners of the rules and their rights and responsibilities.
My dogs don’t care about horses (they know how to behave around them – my daughter ones one), they don’t care about birds, and they don’t care about you, unless you’re surrounded by the garbage and filth some of you like to bring in and leave for someone else to deal with. (Those are FIDO cans filled with your “picnic”.)
I pick up after my dogs, and they actually come when called. I use the Nethermead weekdays after 5, because the area between the path and the pond is out of the way of all sorts of other park users and we responsible dog owners have used it and treasured it for years and did understand the extra privilege. In fact, the rut caused by the cricket players is finally gone, as well as the damage done by soccer cleats.
Alas, somehow mountain bikers seem to continue to go where they aren’t allowed, but I’m not among them. Where’s the anti-mountain bike blog? Where are the tirades over the hundreds of entitled slobs leaving piles of chicken bones, styrofoam cups and the rest of the remains of their exercised rights?
I do apologize for those dog owners who don’t follow, and more than likely, don’t actually know the rules. Is there anything you want to apologize for, though you’re not responsible?