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Web readers react to story about the mess in Prospect Park

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Our online story this week about all the trash in Prospect Park (“What a dump! Prospect Park was a real mess this weekend,” online, July 6) prompted an amazing outcry from the public. Here’s a good synopsis of the chatter:

The park management is inept and they have allowed people to turn the park into a dump. They look the other way on every issue.

Waterford on the Bay

It’s BBQ heaven. Let these folks try this in Central Park. The city should throw out whoever is in charge, if they could find the person.

Al Pankin, Downtown

I like the used diapers stuck in the trees. That is my favorite!

Trace, Park Slope

There is a new group on Facebook called Tupper Thomas’s Prospect Park. We are trying to save the park from illegal BBQs, heaps of litter and the subsequent explosion of the rat population. We want the park to enforce laws regarding BBQs and litter instead of turning a blind eye.

Since Tupper Thomas is the head administrator, we are trying to show her why she needs to act to stop the destruction of the park ASAP. Check out the Facebook site and join if you want to; and most importantly, contribute!

Michele, Kensington

Check your facts before accusing his fellow residents of committing crimes. Barbecuing in the park is not illegal. You are allowed to bring your own grill, tables and chairs, as long as you are not in an area that is marked with signs specifically forbidding it.

The park is not just for residents of Park Slope, it belongs to everyone.

McSlick, Flatbush

McSlick, you are wrong. Barbecuing is only allowed in designated areas, and is illegal everywhere else. Get a clue

Henry, South Slope

Sounds like the Iowans want to take over Prospect Park. Illegal barbecues and illegal music! Get a hold of yourselves. This is Brooklyn!

Pacholo, Red Hook

It’s not just Prospect Park: Fort Greene Park was full of barbecuers on Saturday, and Saturday night hosted a party that seemed to involve well over a 100 people and an illegal sound system. The park was a mess on Sunday morning. Why don’t the police or Parks do anything?

Park Lover, Fort Greene

“Hey Park Lover, why didn’t you just join the party? It sounds like it was fun. And they have always had summer parties in Fort Greene. Why should they stop just because you moved in from Nebraska? And how do you know the sound system was “illegal.” When did you graduate from the Police Academy?

Running Man, Kensington

I know the sound system was illegal because the police don’t give sound permits on holiday weekends. The party wasn’t fun: a lot of the people there were stoned/drunk, and a fight broke out that was really scary.

For the record, I’ve never lived in Nebraska; I’ve lived in Brooklyn since 1991.

Park Lover, Fort Greene

©2009 Community Newspaper Group

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Reader Feedback

Joel from Windsor Terrace says:
Shame to the naysayers - I am thrilled to live across the street from such a vibrant park that belongs to all of the people of Brooklyn and NYC. While I'm a home BBQer, every one of my guests last weekend commented on how great they thought the park scene was and I agree. People deserve a place to get out, enjoy the outdoors with their families, and eat good food. Central Park is never this relaxed and pleasant. The one valid complaint is that the trash cans in and around the park are a joke, as is the lack of adequate trash collection on the weekend. As a member of the Prospect Park alliance, a neighbor, and a homeowner, I'd be glad to pony up for Sat/Sun garbage collection.
July 11, 2009, 10:54 pm
Litter_Bug from Park Slope says:
It is a park by the city for the people. AND it is up to the people who visit the park to clean it up. Your Saturday litter brings flys, your Sunday BBQ brings Racoons and Monday when your home those of us who live near the park have to deal with THAT mess. IF YOU BRING IT FROM HOME, BRING IT HOME.
July 12, 2009, 6:59 pm
Johanna Clearfield from Prospect Park says:
This was like the morning after Hurrican Katrina. This was not a little trash. This was full body carcasses of chicken dumped under trees with hot coals and boxes of diapars, beer cartons, toilet paper, industrial sized tin cooking containers, containers of every style in plastic, steel and tin.....this was broken beer bottles (still there this morning and it is now two days later) and on and on and on. MIH may have held this event illegally -- by not registering and getting a permit ahead of time but the size of the party was evident by 12 noon and not one park officer called it in. There is such a thing as responding to an unexpected event. The fact that it wasn't given a permit is noted but = hello = I was there at noon and it was obvious from the blaring music, from the TENTS (People brought full on camping tents and staked out everywhere) and the hundreds and then thousands of people -- that this was happening. I live in Brooklyn because I choose to be away from the noise and the clutter and the garbage that is Manhattan. but on the morning after this "event" Grand Central was cleaner than our park. Hell's Kitchen was cleaner than our park. Newark was cleaner than our park. It is a neighborhood. There has got to be some oversight.
July 22, 2009, 10:35 am
Niccolo Deity from Crowm Heights says:
Good sir,
7 august ,
a picture in your paper La porvidencia Family,
a clear picture of a beautiful woman but
the women of colour in the back round is vague
and i mean vague !

Niccolo Deity
Deity@Lycos.com

PS: What is going on ?
Aug. 8, 2009, 1:35 pm

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