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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.

I apologize for the string of “bad” posts but these are the things that are just happening.

A follow up to the Seba Avenue Park a Disgrace

A few days ago the bus shelter that was destroyed on Everett Avenue had its posters turn up at seba avenue park.

The seba avenue bus shelter was wrecked by a thrown beer bottle. Its horrible to have these shelters destroyed like this. We only have a handful of these shelters and alot of people use them.

Seba Avenue Skate Park is a Disgrace!

If it’s not the trees being broken in half, it’s now the litter, destruction and complete lack of maintenance.

What used to be a beautiful park, which opened in November 2007 , is now a disaster. Completely green grass is now a desert or in some spots completely overgrown. The park is completely covered in garbage: bottles, cans, beer, liquor, plastic bags, broken glass, cardboard boxes, and graffiti.

The toddler park has broken glass in it and empty beer cans and boxes.

Even better is the bus shelter that is currently destroyed on Everett Avenue. The posters from that shelter are at the park (here and here). Case Solved. The Seba Avenue bus shelter covered in graffiti, is in front of the park again cased solved.

There has been alot of talk and hope that the local kids will police themselves back there. Well that idea is shot dead as of right now. That park (including RCSMP) needs enforcement.

Maybe Fred Wilkins the park manager will do something/anything, but more than likely he won’t. I have not seen any litter removal at Seba Avenue Park in weeks. Also, from comments on this site (made by parks managers) and “meeting chatter” our park manager isn’t to fond of our neighborhood.

We all know there is ZERO enforcement back weeds and at the park, just last night there was 30-40 kids at the park past 9pm, when a “cop in a box”(those interceptors/scooters) drove past and did nothing. All that cop would have to do it get out and say leave, hang out for 10 minutes to make sure and we won’t get our parks and bus shelters destroyed.

I don’t know about you, but considering what it cost to build this park, I’m angry there is no enforcement and more angry that no one is doing anything about it.

I don’t want to see the NYPD wasting their time or our time with their Guard Tower, or the captain himself on Gerritsen Avenue on the 4th of July. They just need to patrol!

Without enforcement, this park will be destroyed soon.

Check out the park in its former glory

Joe Mikos Short HD Edit 2008 from Joseph Mikos on Vimeo.

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.

[Flickr / Banana Boardslide (Nov. 2007)]

At the March Property Owners meeting, Lew Fidler showed the designs for Phase II (bathroom) for Seba Avenue Park

It will have a Mens and Womans bathroom, that would be locked at dusk, and it will have a maintainance room.

It was announced by Lew Fidler, at the march property owners meeting, that in the contract for the trees there is one replacement allowed. Hopefully they will be replaced in the spring.

The other day I posted about some constructive vandalism and straight up vandalism. I went back up to take another look and there were 7 trees completely destroyed at Seba avenue park. If you happen to go up to use the park and you see these trees try not to get to angry.

Whats even worse is that these trees might not be replaced for a very long time, possibly never.

With that in mind, I would like to take this moment to thank the derelicts who took part in destroying your community.

They also capped the poles that were removed. Hopefully no one else will get hurt.

but it is nice to see someone left a heart for a broken tree.