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Big Whoop: Boymelpark Ribbon Cutting is Tommorow, Problems on Their Way

December 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Just don’t tell any of the handball players or skateboarders that have been using the Terrapin Playground, which we call the Boymelpark, for the last couple of weeks that the park doesn’t officially open until tomorrow. (Only the dog owners seem to have been kept out.) But it does. The official ribbon cutting and dedication of the long-delayed restoration work on J.J. Byrne Park’s Terrapin Playground takes place tomorrow (12/3). There’s a skate park, two new basketball courts, six handball courts and a new dog run. Apparently the park will also officially be renamed Washington Park with the playground becoming JJ Byrne Playground. Among the mysteries that remain: how long before condo owners at the Novo Park Slope go apeshit over the noise from the skatepark, handball courts and dog run. Also, will Sanitation Workers be allowed to continue their VERY early morning handball games featuring, shall we say, intense competition and colorful language. Also, how many years will it take to install lights in the new Boymelpark? Yes, some genius designed a park without lights, including a dog run that in winter will be used after dark. Maybe the warm glow of Novo Park Slope condo lights will keep it safe. Or, perhaps, when someone is mugged, beaten, raped or killed or the place starts attracted–shall we say–sordid activity, a decision will be made that having no lights is a boo boo of major proportions. Did someone say too fucking stupid for words? No. That wasn’t us.

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 o // Dec 2, 2008 at 10:06 am

    I do not think the existing dog run that is made up of mud, wood chips and dead rats has any lights, working ones at least.

  • 2 Anonymous // Dec 2, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    The dog strip is an embarassment. prisoners have better excercise yards. No double gate, no trees no water. horrible. why not just renovate that old one?