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Model Airplane Club and Dirt Bikers Contend for Use of Brooklyn Runway - NY Times

Looks like the NY Times picked up on whats going on back weeds between the RCSMP and the dirt bikes. Its an interesting read, but its nothing that I didn’t say before when I broke the story.

In response there was a stepped up effort to catch quads this past weekend back weeds but…

Lets just say this, all of the “locals” walked away, then within minutes got their quads at another location only to return to taunt the park rangers by playing chicken and buzzing them on their quads. While a family of non local people all got summonsed at the point for their quads. To the taunters: doing what you did will only bring more enforcement down here and more than likely someone will end up hurt.

Now I know of the parks department reads this site and I will say that understand that after the NY Times article that there had to be some sort of stepped up enforcement or something to show on paper that you gave out a summons, but do you/they have to are stupid about how you/they go about it?

Just a couple of things I noticed this last weekend with the enforcement.

The park rangers drive recklessly on the avenue & back weeds in their jeeps on the trails. Next time I post video of the stunts. They were also warning people about vehicles on the field while driving on the field.

They blocked the exit at Seba Avenue Park to block escape of whomever but they were ONLY blocking family’s with carriages and small kids. They wouldn’t move for anyone, 4 families had to lift every kid they had with carriages. I guess because there was a camera pointed at them they decided to help the last family lift a carriage over the rail. It would of been easier to move the idling jeep.

Every single one of them is on a mini power trip. Does anyone remember “Excuse Me You Can’t Take Pictures of Officers Doing Their Jobs“?

Oh, nice hiding spot. You do know that everyone has a cell phone and they knew where you were?

The annual “GGRMMBBR” or Gerritsen Beach Round Mau Mau Boat Races was held on its rain date Sunday the 7th.

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I stumbled across this 1951 aerial shot of Gerritsen Beach. What the hell is that in the soccer fields? Is that a gypsy town?

Look at the park in the upper left, that looks interesting. Does anyone know what this is or have any pictures of this?

Jet Ski In Gerritsen Beach from Gerritsen Beach on Vimeo.

I’m not going to say I warned you, but I did. Unless you want your picture taken, people have to be careful not to speed in the the area of the creek that a speed limit a no wake zone exist. NYPD harbor is making sure to patrol our area.

Take this as your another warning, DO NOT LAUNCH JET SKIS from the point.

It appears as though this pair of jet skiers were receiving a summons for speeding.

Seba Avenue skate park has been fixed up, but for how long?

It looks as though on or around Thursday, July 24th, Seba Avenue Park was cleaned up by the Parks Department. Litter was removed and the graffiti was covered. That’s it. Thanks.

According to local skaters the park is falling apart. They absolutely hate the broken glass everywhere and usually clean it up themselves. The park has other problems, like major flooding and the “quarter bowl” (showed above) is slowly chipping away. The skaters also said they did everything they could possibly do with tricks in a month.

They also seem pretty annoyed that they only got half a skate park.

There is an epic battle being fought “Back Weeds” at the recently paved airplane field. It’s being fought between the Radio Controlled Society of Marine Park (RCSMP) and the legal/illegal street & dirt bikes. The street and dirt bikers have been aggressively riding there on the weekends while RCSMP members are trying to fly.

Even though the RCSMP is no stranger of vandalism, recently the harassment has taken a turn. They are constantly having to fight to fly in their own park that they maintain and pay for. The bikers (not “kids” mind you) have harassed, spit on, damaged cars , threatened violence,  and in some cases physically attacked RCSMP members.

Before the skate park, there were barricades in place around the field that blocked street access. Now there is a clear path to the airplane field from the street allowing street bikes. The dirt bikes always get back there but that has always been an issue and is for parks enforcement to handle.

Calls have been also made to NYC Parks (Fred Wilkins) by RCSMP members with NO RESPONSE. Calls have also been made to 911 with little or NO RESPONSE

Anger has peaked with RCSMP members and there is a group of members of the society are ready to turn vigilante THIS WEEKEND, if they don’t see any response from law enforcement.

Before the skate park, there were barricades in place around the field that blocked street access. Now there is a clear path to the airplane field from the street allowing street bikes. The dirt bikes always get back there but that has always been an issue and is for parks enforcement to handle.

Right around Valentines Day earlier this year Seba avenue park had most of its newly planted trees snapped in half (7 Trees, A Bench, and a Valentine for a Broken Tree).

Now they have finally been replaced! They look to be a bit taller and thicker than the original trees, which will protect them from anyone who would want to snap them.

Thanks to Monsterzro for this wonderful tip.

I know “back weeds” has seen a lot over the years. Most of which no one will ever know. Ever.

There has never been a way to show others what you actually did: show off a fort or show off some party you had. It all had to travel by word of mouth because of that reason you can get away with a ton of stuff and go unnoticed.

However, youtube makes it so much easier to show off your stupidity. Here we have Rob aka Polcok (not a polish joke) with his “100% deadly homemade working shotgun”. It is a 2 by 4 piece of wood with some copper piping, shotgun shells, a “bolt action spring thing”, and a nail.

For the love of god, if your going to do something illegal anywhere DO NOT POST IT ON YOUTUBE, DO NOT TAG IT, and DO NOT LINK IT TO YOUR MYSPACE. If you do we will know who you are. More importantly, the AUTHORITIES will find out who you are:

• Robs Myspace
• Youtube account

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