[Soil Sample Truck – October 23rd 2009)
With the future extension of Seba Avenue Park with Phase II (Comfort Station) and what GerritsenBeach.net will call Phase III (sprinklers) the Larry Veling scoreboard based at the Little League Field will be forced to be moved.
Moved where is the question the Little League and the Parks Department will have to hash out (hopefully with a signed letter). The GB Little League needs to make sure that complete removal is not an option, otherwise we at GerritsenBeach.net predict everyone in GB will declare Jihad on the parks department.
After contacting Councilman Lew Fidlers office who is a driving force behind Seba Avenue Park. They say removal of the scoreboard is not an option just moved to a location away from the construction. Adding that their office will work with parks to make sure everything goes smoothly.
After speaking with members of the Little League (nameless for FEAR of retaliation from another GB group) relocating the scoreboard in right field is the general consensus right now -Â of course – after construction begins.
That truck looks like the truck that tests the soil.
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@,That truck is being used to take soils samples for the bearing capacity of the soil, in geotechnical engineering, bearing capacity is the capacity of soil to support the loads applied to the ground. The bearing capacity of soil is the maximum average contact pressure between the building foundation and the soil it is placed on.
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Comfort Station “BAD IDEA”….People in Gerritsen Beach need to wake up, get involved, and Put a STOP to what’s going on in OUR neighborhood. This will bring alot of changes to the over all look of Our neighborhood, & it’s all bad, More outsiders utilizing the park & facilities, you can already see the change happening.Get involved!!!!!
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Thank you…I thought iIwas the only one to feel this way. I see the changes since the skate park and now there’s going to be more. I hope other people wake up. They need to spend some time after 3pm at the skate park to see what’s really going on there.
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@, Why don’t you go to the library and read a good book instead of worrying about what is going on after 3pm at the skate park.
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Why don’t you mind your own business
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@, Change is good, get used to it. We “outsiders” pay taxes too.
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Comfort station is a Very Bad idea…you are going to have school buses from out of the area using the park every day/No bathrooms no school buses…..This will also cause traffic problems.Keep it simple,and avoid problems down the road.
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@Tim, Thats what the park is for, everyone to use it and enjoy it, stop being so selfish.
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@Anne, Yes the idea of a small park is for the people of the city.this is true……….Its should not be used by private schools field trips .Thats what the bigger parks are for…..I had a problem at 277 park a number of years ago…3 bus loads of poorly supervised kids took over the park with no reguard of the little kids safety..I approached one of the adults [who in a nasty way said they had a permit to attend the park any time...is this fair to the little kids???] As it turned out I took what ever info i could get from the adults and called the parks dept…I gave them the info ,they agreed with me and said that the permits held by the private school is only for Marine Park and they would take care of it.The buses never came back.We need to make sure that this type of ENFORCEMENT is done at all small PLAY GROUNDS.These Play grounds are intended for the little kids in the neighborhood in which children can play safe and not get run down by out of control mob of school kids.
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why don’t you ask for a park accross the street from your house?
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Lets be honest here the “Comfort Station” is being built so the outsiders,the people being bussed in, and the kids being dropped off by their parents from other neighborhoods are More Comfortable. This is to alleviate the congestion at Marine Park. This is NOT for the benefit of the neighborhood nor the community or our children, we live steps away from our own bathrooms…The Politician behind this and the very few people who are behind the whole plan want the people in Gerritsen beach to believe that this is a good thing, IT’s NOT, It;s a BAD IDEA. The park will become another Marine Park, congested, over crowded, traffic problems, and lots of other issues. If they REALLY cared for the community, our children, they would use the money for other things in the community, much needed things, like maybe another or other “Garbage Cans(there’s ONE)” at the park, just an idea, better swings, bigger swings, a better slide, street lights,etc….. People will see the change,the whole neightborhood will change, More Yellow Busses, ALOT more parents from outside the neigborhood dropping off their kids at the skate park, and probably alot of other issues, its not enough that our own kids can’t fully enjoy the park, others will benefit from it. its a Shame that the people in the neighborhood are not informed until its TOO late. It seems that Alot of things are, and decisions are being made without the input of the neighborhood…..
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@, So whats wrong with everyone using the park? We’re not in your backyard. It is everyone’s property not just people who live in GB. Didn’t people from the beach ever go to Marine ParK? Did anyone ever tell you not to because you come from the beach? No. This is a free country and it is going to be enjoyed by everyone in and out of the beach whether you like it or not. Thank you very much to all the people responsible for making such a beautiful place for me and my family to enjoy. Oh and a big thank you for the comfort stations.
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It shows proves everyone’s point, this is the attutide & behavior GB has to deal with, People that feel like all of a sudden it makes it all right to come into the neighborhood( yes, in our backyard) & use Our Park, it’s has been taken care of by people in the community for a very long time, for the kids IN the community, We take pride, so people like this can come & disrupt the neighborhood.
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@, You need to learn that it is OK to come into GB…it is everyone’s neighborhood. It is NOT a private community. And it is not all of a sudden, it is just that GB was crap and had nothing to offer and nothing going on. Now WE have a skatepark, kids park, ball fields, etc. and yes, It will be worth the trip into the beach. Now if we could only do something about people with your attitude we would be alright. My tax dollars were spent fixing Gerritsen Ave and if I choose to drive down to the point well too bad. If you don’t like living in a public community move to a private one. Seagate has some really nice homes for sale, try it. Bye, bye.
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Its obvious that Lew Fidler has other motives behind this whole thing, he sees great potential, over all a good neighborhood, nothing like it anywhere, good working people , good values, good community,he’s looking to change the community to benefit him and others that are trying to slowly but surely change and take over the neighborhood, the school is changing, people buying some of the houses are changing the community, alot of new faces, and the sad thing is Not for the better. Everyone in the neighborhood should call his office and let him know that we want to keep our community, just make it better.
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@, Thank you Mr. Lew Fidler. I am voting for you for sure. This change has been a long time coming. Now maybe more people can enjoy the great park areas in GB.
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Gerritsen Beach opened the door to politics and politicians many years ago, and many residents are only now beginning to realize the cost to a unique community. What was wrong with a store front library? There were those who swooned when a Congressman, now Senator, led the way for the current library. “Oh, what a great guy, he even had a few beers with us”. Really! When is the last time you saw him?
There is a park for children where it has always been, off Ave. X and Gerritsen–the site on which P.S. 277 stands was handball courts. There were those who lobbied for a Seba Avenue Park, and a Skateboard Park. They found a receptive politician in Lew Fidler, who is not of Gerritsen Beach, and were our community a river, he would advise you, as I, Heraclitus, did around 500 B.C., “you do not step into the same river twice… all things are flowing…” As your Councilman, he listens to your needs and does all in his power to fulfill–or correct where necessary–those things that are asked of him. Parks being very ‘dear’ to him (he’s a regular shadow of Robert Moses) he is building his own legacy. (whether intentional or not).
You got what some people asked for: and now you and your children must share what was once the pride and joy of Gerritsen Beach: “THE WEEDS”. For 25 years, a local soccer club has used the field freely, because it is a section of the community. Now, they too must get “permits” or the field will be given over to Cricket or as a a football practice field for a high school team from Bay Ridge or elsewhere. No part of “Marine Park” (aka “The Weeds”) is immune to change. Don’t just talk to each other about it, let your Representatives know what it is you want. Fortunately, you have receptive representatives, but left unchecked, or left alone with those who have an agenda other than yours, you lose.
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@Heraclitus, Heraclitis, you really have a problem with our library now?? What exactly is the problem? It is a beautiful work of architecture, that also serves as an educational tool for our children. There are many programs for children, and adults, of all ages available to us, that a “storefront” library could not have offered. The bigger problem here is your cynisism and xenophobia, and your apparent prejudices of people who are not from this neighborhood. You get pissed when someone parks in your spot too?
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what they need now is a parking lot like up in marine park so that all the cars can have a place to park
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While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, actual facts are for everyone.
First, the initial renovation of Seba Park, which at the time was nothing more than a rubble strewn lot, long forgotten by government, was at the urging of GB Cares and GBPOA. The construction of the skate park and renovation was funded by tax dollars brought to the nieghborhood by my office, Senator Golden and BP Markowitz. We each shared equally in the funding of the original project.
Following the construction, two issues were raised to me by folks from GBeach. First, there was concern over park maintenance and a desire to enlarge the tot lot area for the small kids. I also believe, but am not absolutely sure, that GB Cares was interested in having a water feed for use.
Having heard these issues raised repeatedly by leaders of both GB groups, and folks who attend their meetings, I first obtained all of the needed funding for a comfort station. For the uninitiated, a comfort station is a bathroom, not a field house like the one that is being built in Marine Park, and a place to house a full time parks worker so that the area can be maintained.
The tot lot which is now in the design and scoping phase, for which I was able to obtain capital funding in this year’s budget, is an expansion of the services for little kids ie swings etc. and possibly a water sprinkler system.
At every time in this process, I reported in both newsletters and at civic meetings of my efforts to get this money; support for the efforts was always there from GB folks. I have NEVER received a letter in my office objecting, nor a person at a GBPOA meeting voicing opposition.
For the record, I have not received a single solitary comment from anyone in any other nighborhood of any kind with regard to Seba Park. Truthfully, nobody knows where it is or truyly cares where it is. This park improvement is supposed to be essentially for the people of Gerritsen Beach as it is a NEIGHBORHOOD park. Unlike Marine Park, which is considered more than a neighborhood park, Seba is not considered a destination park.
Frankly, I do not understand this idea that adding some swings, a water sprinkler system and a bathroom, plus a place for a permanent parks worker who can maintain the park will cause traffic congestion, school buses and a slew of outsiders coming to GBeach.
I always suspect that as election time draws nearer that we get closer to silly season. But I am going to presume for the time being that those expressing the points of view in comments here are sincere and not motivated by partisan attacks (though it is interesting that my name is the only one mentioned when Sen. Golden and BP Markowitz split the original project with me). And, as I have said before on this site, it is not my job, intention or need to fund things that the community does not want. Believe me, I have numerous parks projects in other neighborhoods in need of added funding.
So, people of Gerritsen Beach, if you support the comfort station and the tot lot let me know. Or not.
I am as always here to do what is best for and desired by the community.
Lew from Brooklyn
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@Lew from Brooklyn, At every time in this process, I reported in both newsletters and at civic meetings…”
I for one never received a newsletter
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@Jim,
Jim, All of my newsletters are mailed by the City Council to all households that have registered voters of any party. We mailed out four newsletters in the last fiscal year.
Lew from Brooklyn
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@Jim, uh oh Jim, you mean to tell me with all ur involvement you didn’t even bother to register to vote? ughhh
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@Lew from Brooklyn, Thank You Lew. The majority of this neighborhood is supporting any expansion of this park, which as you have stated, was previously nothing but a rubble strewn lot. And why can’t people understand what a benefit this will be to our communities most important asset?? Our CHILDREN. Thats whats important here. Not some cynics view of what would happen if a comfort station was built. There are cynics on this site still complaining about our beautiful library!! What is wrong with this picture? So what if people from outside of GB use both the library and our parks? This is not a Private Club!! It’s the same mentality with the parking spaces down here. Some people, not all, are just too xenophopic and territorial in this neighborhood.
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@Old Monkey Bars, Who gave you the right to say “the majority of this neighborhood is supporting any expansion of this park”? That isn’t true. Who elected you to speak for all of us? The audacity!!
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@GB resident, This coming from someone who is just a NOT IN MY BACKYARD GUY, and someone who only complains, and complains. You have even complained on this forum about noise coming from a public park is a problem. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT CHILDREN PLAYING IN A PLAYGROUND!!!! Talk about audacity. Bah Humbug to you, Ebenezer. Do you even remember when you were a child and what fun it is to play at the park??
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@Lew from Brooklyn, If Seba park is truly a neighborhood park, of what real use would bathrooms be when most of the people who would then use it would live only a few blocks away? We use the park and when we have to use a bathroom, we walk home. Wouldnt all that money find a better use? Unless maybe it is supposed to be a destination park in the future?
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@,
Obviously, you do not have a young “tot”. (or you would know why having a bathroom by a young children’s play area is needed.)
And, as I also added, it will enable the Parks Dept. to deploy a full time mainenance worker at the Park as it also houses a work/storage facility.
Lew from Brooklyn
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@Lew from Brooklyn, My daughter is 5, when she has to go we walk home. I would not bring her to a public facility anyway as they are usually dirty.
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@, and… if this is needed, there has never been a public bathroom at the park by 277, dont remember people complaining; again, it a neighborhood park, when kids have to go, you walk or drive 2 minutes to your house.
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Great point made!!! I agree!
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I hope that everyone that was yelling for a park at Seba Avenue will be happy now with all the improvements, I often wondered why one was needed when there is a great park near P.S. 277, that is where all the improvements should be going. The skate park is an accident waiting to happen, and for those outsiders ” who pay taxes also” why aren’t you upset about not getting a park in your own neighborhood, why is it so important to come into ours that is already crowded, is it because your neighborhood is not as safe as ours, and who is responsible for that?. Well I for one would rather put my kids in the car and take them home rather than let them use on of those comfort stations, which are really not that safe, especially when you don’t know who could be in the bathroom when you walk in there.
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@anonymous, I agree completely!!
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@anonymous,
For the record, I have funded park improvements for Marine Park, Lindower Park on Strickland Avenue, Canarsie Seaview Park, Sledge and Curtis Playgrounds in Canarsie, Fraser Square. Therefore, no resident of my Council district needs to go to anyone else’s neighborhood for park use, though they are of course free to do so.
Lew from Brooklyn
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Why wasn’t 277 park revitalized and improved on instead of making another park way down the avenue . The skate park could also have been put near the school at least there is a traffic light there where it is safe to cross the street and kids from other areas would not have such a long walk down gerritsen avenue to get to the seba ave park… this money would have been well spent and would have cost us much less than what has been done, the money could have gone towards other things to make our neighborhood better light more traffic lights!!!!
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I agree, we go there almost everyday after school I have a couple of friends children who have been seriously hurt there recently. This park needs to be revitalized now!
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I’ve intentionally stayed away from recent conversations on here lately out of respect for the community to speak its mind without politics getting involved. I just wanted to respond to one of the Councilman’s veiled comments regarding politics being at play.
Councilman, I believe that your name being the only name mentioned is the product of your own doing, not any partisan politics! You have trumpeted these improvements for some time. Your name individually appears in postings on this site, where people comment directly to you with suggestions.
Now, comments that don’t share your view appear, and all of a sudden, it’s not just you that has brought about this project, it’s other politicians that are responsible. So now it’s convenient to mention them.
And the reasons for those comments are partisan and due to elections? Is it really such a surprise that there is dissent in any community that it must be driven by some boogie-man on the other side of the political aisle?
Not everything is a right-wing partisan conspiracy, and inferring so is, in my opinion, an insult to the community.Own the bad with the good, or don’t own it at all. Leave politics out of the park.
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@Gene B.,
Gene, I never remotely implied that you were involved. Me thinks thou doest protest too much.
Lew from Brooklyn
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@Lew from Brooklyn, I never remotely implied I was involved, either!
I only pointed how a little negativity comes about, and all of a sudden, you throw others to the wolves and you blame partisan politics. If anyone “doth protest too much”….
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@Lew from Brooklyn, Hey Lew – I still haven’t gotten any reply to the email I sent to you over a month ago or the posts I left for you on this website (in both MTA stories)reminding you about it.
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@Kate,
Kate, since I really have no idea what posts or email you are talking about, please contact my district office directly at 718-241-9330. Please forward your comments and quesstions to anyone who answers the phone and provide your contact info and we will get you a full reply as we do with everyone who contacts us.
I apologize for not knowing what comments you are referring to.
Lew from Brooklyn
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@Lew from Brooklyn, You replied to my initial email saying that in order to serve my needs better you needed my full name, address & phone number which I sent & then received no other reply. I’ve posted replies like this to you on at least 2 other posts and this is the first you have acknowledged.
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@Kate, its election time
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@Kate, Well
kate, I would like to track down your emails and find out why we did not reply. We endeavor to answer all emails, calls and lettters we get from constituents. Obviously, we are not perfect. So please re-send and i will look into it.
As to the next reply about election time, I have thousands of reply letters that are sent out year round to refute the idea that we only reply at election time.
That is just silly.
Lew from Brooklyn
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i say let them build it watch what happens
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For those who condemn change, it is recommended, you participate in the decision-making at the time it is initiated or in the early stages, when you can contribute suggestions or objections. From what we have heard at meetings recently, parents have made an issue of there being only 2 (count them, two) swings at the Seba Ave. Park. They feel it is redundant to add a “tot park”, when there is one next to P.S. 277. They have voiced their opinions that more swings are needed, not a wading pool and sprinkler system.
The ‘comfort station’ has been public knowledge for quite some time, and from what we have been told, there will be a Parks Dept. attendant present for safety purposes. Any objection to extending the park area may still be open to discussion for modification, and you may raise that subject at the next GBPOA meeting. In November, it will be the night after the elections. I’m sure your Councilman will gladly answer any questions you have about Seba Ave. Park., and thank you for your vote….
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@George R. Broadhead, Who exactly feels it is redundant to add expand the tot lot? The same parents who complained about only 2 swings? Isn’t that the exact reason we need an expansion? And as far as the sprinkler is concerned, why doesn’t everybody think about the CHILDREN for once. what little kid doesn’t love to get wet on a hot summer day? There will be water available due to the comfort station, and it will be relatively cheap and easy to install a small sprinkler. And for all of this talk of “…..PS277 park has this, we don’t need it…” What kind of attitude is that? How can anyone in there right mind NOT want more park space if it’s being offered???
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@Old Monkey Bars, “How can anyone in there right mind NOT want more park space if it’s being offered???” Obviously alot of people dont as you scan the 50+ responses to this article.
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@, Do you really think this community is properly represented on this website? Do you spend time at Seba Park with your small children? Have you been to any community meetings regarding such? I didn’t think so.
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Hi
For those who go back a way…..can you remember when there was a (fully functioning) mens and woman’s restroom at 277park?, In addition to a park-house that had loaned out basketballs, softballs, checkerboards, and etc? I remember this and sadly it was all trashed and broken into so many times they finally closed it. Those were happy times…..(p.s. i’m going back some 50 years ago!!
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Do you knoww why Seba Avenue Park was called GLASS PARK?
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@NFH, I remember, and it was during the NYC fiscal crisis in the early 70′s that the Parkie that was full time there was pulled out of there and it was then that little by little the Parkhouse/bathrooms were trashed and burned. The same went for Seba Park. That parkie used to ride down there to maintain it and then the City abandoned both these parks to save money. Does anyone remember that Seba Park was originally built due to the efforts of a Parks Superviser who lived down at the end of Opal Ct? He had the juice to get it built, but the maintainence was always lacking. It became a hangout for the junkies of the 60′s/70′s and was completely destroyed. Broken glass all over, 2 swings, 1 seesaw, Glass Park.
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It is not that we condemn change, we want some improvments and maintainence. Of Course most people would want a sweet, safe, clean little park to take their kids to. We pay taxes and some people rightly want some of that money brought back into our neighborhood. What we fear is it becoming something that we can’t use. In the summer months, Marine Park, Prospect Park are crammed every inch with “camps”. People make alot of money offering “summer camp”, aka babysitting for children of all ages. They are brought every day, weather permitting, to the parks where they are poorly supervised and trash the place. Before anyone allows this to happen to the beach, PLEASE take a stroll in Marine Park in the summer and see it for yourself. Of course the people from Marine Park are arguing for the development of GB parkland, they want to see it alleviate the crowding at Marine Park. Marine Park has become just about unusable by the residents of Marine Park. It is no longer the peaceful place it used to be. The basketball playing goes on until 1 am. Thunk, Thunk, Thunk, all night long. Ask people who live nearby. Parks dept. do their best to clean it up but it’s hard with hundreds upon hundreds of kids eating bag lunches there. Go and take a look. This is what they want to move here. Make no mistake about it. These improvements will change the beach completely and irreversably. Keep the park small. Keep it the small, safe community it has always been.Keep it a place that no one wants to come to, we were all far better off that way. Only the people who actually lived here knew how special it was and while other people looked down upon us, it didn’t matter, because we knew the truth. We knew that with all it’s warts, it was the best place to grow up. Don’t let them take it away from us. Even if the comfort station is kept clean in the beginning, you all know how it will eventually wind up. What happens when Lew Fidler is not our rep anymore? They went against what people voted for and will all get another term, but what about after that? What will the next guy do? More development? Maybe it will wind up like Prospect Park with hundreds coming and setting up barbques and ruining the entire area with dumped coals and garbage. Lets stop this now. If they can’t just come in and add a few swings and a slide, if they insist on turning it into a destination park, then lets stop it now. It’s not worth it.
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You are 100% correct about Marine Park no longer being for “residents” of MP. The amount of children during the summer camp days is unbelieveable….and you are also rite about enlarging this park too much!! Add more swings, and maybe small slides. But keep it for the community and the CHILDREN of the community……If You Build It They Will come……in droves and by yellow school buses on Friday Afternoons and summer days…….
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@GB resident, Maybe this and maybe that. Yes I did walk to Marine Park and it is still beautiful. You must be a senior person resistant to change. Marine Park is clean and quiet. Hey you might even want to go back there yourself when they complete the construction of the senior center.
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@Bob B., You mean you went there on a weekday in the fall? It is lovely and quiet then. Why not try it on the weekend, or on any day in the summer. You have no idea what your talking about. Ask the people who live across the street from it how it has become.
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@GB resident, The weekend is noisy everywhere, what are you talking about? This isn’t the suburbs, get with it. If you want peace and quiet on the weekend why don’t you try upstate? This is BROOKLYN, NY. You are being selfish.
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You are completely right!!!!! Alot of people feel the same way you, and it needs to be stopped, GB should be kept the way it is, a neighborhood park for GB residents and keep it small. The funding should actually be going to improving the park by P.S 277. There’s probably pressure from Marine Park residents like you said to allevite their park……………….The residents from GB need to oppose all these changes that are being made, even if it means giving up the funding, we can’t allow this to happen, it will change our community, it should just be left alone. something needs to happen, petition, organized rally, meeting…..something opposing & against these changes,it should be STOPPED!!!!
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@GB resident, GB resident does NOT reflect the spirit of this comunity. Blah, blah, blah. Your longwinded responses are boring me. You want a park for CHILDREN to be QUIET? IT”S A PLAYGROUND FOR CHILDREN FOR HEAVENS SAKE!!!! Who are you, one of those grouchy old men in the balcony on the Muppets? Are you Statler or Waldorf? Or maybe Ebenezer Scrooge perhaps? Let Tiny Tim have some fun with the best park our tax dollars can pay for. If we don’t use it, some one else will.
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@Old Monkey Bars, If you actually READ my post, I am not complaining about kids having fun at the park and making noise. I think that is what it’s for and it is wonderful. I was all for putting a park for kids at Seba. It’s nice to have something for the kids in the old section so Parents can walk to it instead of driving to 277 park. It’s good to alleviate some of the crowding in 277 park. Only 1/2 of it is actually still there. (The whole section of 277 park that had the bigger swings, seesaws, and slides has been gone for years.) If the people from the new section use it too who in their right mind would have a problem with that? That is not the problem. The problem is that too much developement is no good anywhere. No one wants it to become a destination for summer camps, busloads of undersuprevised kids making it impossible for our kids to actually use the park. The problem is Old Assed Monkey bars, you have obviously never been to Marine Park during the week in the summertime. Haven’t you ever seen the double parked school buses on Stuart and all along Fillmore Ave? Is that what you really want here? We have beautiful fields, 2 kiddie parks and thats enough. If they add a little more for the children in Seba, revitalize 277 park, for all the good reasons others have mentioned, thats great. But now you want to start paving it for parking lots? Enough! This is being forced on us, and don’t kid yourself, the political motivation is from pressure from people in MP because they want their park back.
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Well said GB resident….I am an resident of the “new ” section……so i see 277 park everyday……It is used by many different people from the beach and from “outside”. I would not want to see Gerritsen Beach become an area with kids from all over coming in yellow school buses. MP in the summer is no longer a park for residents of MP and surrounding areas. It’s loaded with buses from 9 to 4 with no opportunity for area residents to use the playground or grounds themselves….keep the beach from becoming an overcrowded, dirty and overdeveloped area. Half the beauty of the beach is its vast expanse of non developed land…..
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@anon, lol, “don’t it always seem to go -that they don’t know what they got till it’s gone? they paved paradise and put up a parjking lot”
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here comes the next east ny
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There should be a community meeting with just this agenda where everyone’s voice could be heard just like the greenstreets meeting. Everyone’s voice was heard and the community got what it wanted.
This park is being shoved down our throats.
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@, If you have a coummunity meeting don’t forget to let the WHOLE community know about it, not everyone lives in the old section. We in the new section shared PS277 park with everyone, now that it’s our turn to enjoy Seba park you think you can put up barriers. Huh, think not, this is a public neighborhood, not private.
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Yeah, like there has been a bunch of “old section only” meetings. It was very generous of you to share a city park with the old sectioners, you deserve a cookie. Good girl.
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@Charlie the midget, Thank you for the cookie, here, have some stilts.
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@Anne, she doesnt get it, lol
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@Anne, What on earth are you talking about? No one, anywhere is complaining about new section people using Seba Park. That would be absurd. There are not 2 Gerrittsen Beaches, there is one. Let it be strong, let it remain the safe community it always has been, let it always be a place where everyone knows everyone. Lets not turn it into a playground for the rest of Brooklyn. Like the Anon said in reply to post #4, Gerrittsen Beach was CRAP, and now we have a reason for him to come here and no one can stop him. That says it all. Overdevelopment of our parkland is as bad as overdevelopment of housing, or worse. Once it’s gone, it will never be back.
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@GB resident, Over developement? They are building on weeds!!! The “new” section always looked down on the “old” section, get a grip.
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@Anne, GB Resident, you must live in some alternate reality if you really believe that GB will turn into “…a playground for the rest of Brooklyn” when they expand the tot lot. They are not building a Sesame Place. And your overdevelopment of our parkland comment is absurd. Start complaining about that when they build low income housing up there, not a tot lot for kids to play in.
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@Old Monkey Bars, Why don’t they expand the tot lot in the area between the skate park, which could have been bigger, it’s crowded all the time, and the present tot lot. The area in between is paved and has lines painted on it for tennis?, but no one ever uses it. It has benches situated all around it but it is nothing. Why not expand the tot lot in that area and leave the Little League and our scoreboard right where it is. Again, I am not against having places for kids to play, I just don’t want to see nothing but asphalt. No one wants to see this become a summer camp destination, keep it small. Why not add a section to 277 park that is good for older kids? It’s already there. Why start paving more natural space when you don’t have to? Also consider your tax assesments, if you think we are not going to pay for this park in the long run, your wrong.
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@GB resident, Well I agree with you on that, but unfortunately, with Bloomberg as our Mayor, all of our taxes(and hidden taxes also, like ridiculous fines and summons attacks for petty offenses) have skyrocketed. Billionaire Bloomberg has squeezed the middle class like no one before him. Vote Thompson!
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@Old Monkey Bars, Hurray, we agree! I did vote for Thompson, unfortunatly Blumberg squeaked in, another round of water bill and tax hikes and we will have to go. My husband and I both work union jobs and haven’t gotten a raise in 3 years. We never get retro all the way back. Our hours have been cut and our jobs are being replaced by contractors. Another 4 years with Blumberg and I’m sure our jobs will be gone. And so will we. :( Along with the Million and a half people who have already been sqeezed out of NY.
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@GB resident, Don’t you mean Bumberg?
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@bagels, I keep thinking about how much GOOD could have been done with all that money he spent on his campaign. Not a day went by without a mailing, NOT VERY GREEN! And the phone calls!! Foe someone who spent over 1000 times less, Thompson had some good ads on TV. I really liked the one where he showed clips of BUMBERG with nasty expressions on his face. The contempt he really feels for the little people showing through. If we don’t get some relief soon, I’ll be selling apples on Gerrittsen Ave. Could someone lend me some apples?
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I’d like to see some parking added – especially where the softball/soccer fields are. And yes, I know “it’s parkland”. But Marine Park has parking lots. It’s very difficult to park on the avenue to do any kind of shopping on weekends in the summer, especially when there are soccer games.
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@cruiser, This isn’t Marine Park. If you want a parking lot, go there.
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@cruiser, Gerritsen Beach has to be one of the easiest neighborhoods to park in all of Brooklyn. Go check out Bay Ridge, they need a parking lot and a comfort station.
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Marine Park used to be a beautiful community with alot to be proud of. Now it is turning into a real shithole, the drug sales in the handball courts on Stuart street go completely unchecked, the area around the school and the park is usually filthy, people litter all around it, don’t even bother to look for a garbage can. And with that stinking pile of garbage the school puts out on Fillmore, it’s starting to look more like East Flatbush every day. After the garbage is picked up, there is a big, wet, stinking stain. At least when they dumped it on Stuart, they used to hose it off, now it just stays there. In the park, it’s becoming rare to even hear anyone speaking English. It’s becoming harder and harder to jog around and enjoy it. So changed in so short a time! Don’t let it happen to the Beach!
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@Some Gal, Marine Park is still a beautiful community. What you are describing is the use of a park! And yes M/Pk JHS has thousands of kids, some even from the Beach, that create garbage and that garbage is put out for the trucks to come pick it up. People down the beach litter all the time, it doesn’t mean it will start looking “like East Flatbush”. Gee what should people do stay out of school and the park? Get real, all people create waste.
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Go Phillies!
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@Darren, Who’s Phillie?
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2009 mlb wsc
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The scoreboard shouldn’t be moved. It’s something that means alot to us.
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I don’t think we have a choice anymore…The Councilman is going to do this whether we like it or not.
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Whats next make Kiddie Beach a public beach with yellow buses in the summer time. Bet that wouldn’t go over to big ( yes I know it is private property, before someone yells that ) but try living accross the street from the skate park some days in the summer and hear the noise, and again not everyone is skating, there is a group of kids ( young teens )who I see everyday are just there to hang out and they are not from the beach.
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Not long before they make a beach at the end of Gerritsen avenue for all to enjoy…just a matter of time.
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@anonymous, It’s always been there…
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What’s up the whole world, I’m redone to the forum and impartial wanted to say hey.
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