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Sitting in trucks highlight of Park Slope toddlers’ social calendar

Sitting in trucks highlight of Park Slope toddlers’ social calendar
Photo by Jason Speakman

There were smiles by the truck load!

Thousands of youngsters rolled into Park Slope’s PS 295 on Saturday for the school’s annual Touch-a-Truck festival, and parents say the annual opportunity for tots to sit behind the wheel of a big rig is the place to be seen amongst the preschool set.

“It’s the toddler event of the year,” said Kensington resident Saryn Goldberg-Elam, who brought her fire-engine-mad 4-year-old Avian to the fest. “It’s every kid’s dream to sit in a fire truck.”

Attendees paid an $8 toll for the chance to get up close and personal with a dream team of jumbo rides lined up along 16th Street including a vintage Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus, a fire engine, a parks department front-end loader, and a plumber’s truck.

The profits went to the school’s parent-teacher association, which meant everyone came out a winner, according to Goldberg-Elam.

“The kids are super excited, the people who operate the trucks are heroes for a day, and the school makes a huge amount of money,” she said.

Reach reporter Lauren Gill at lgill@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260–2511. Follow her on Twitter @laurenk_gill