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These days, NYC playgrounds are more than basketball and handball courts. At Harold Ickes Playground, we've transformed an underused asphalt lot into a state-of-the-art new skate park! This $4.3 million investment includes space for all kinds of outdoor adventurers: skateboard and BMX features, a climbing boulder, a parkour space, game tables, and the first ever bike repair station and air pumps installed in a Brooklyn park. We were thrilled to skate through the ribbon at this morning's official opening. Come check it out! 🛹 📸 NYC Parks / Daniel Avila

  • A child on a skateboard skates through a ribbon to celebrate the opening of a new skate park.
  • A person on roller blades rolls along the edges of a skate park.
  • A man smiles while starting to scale a climbing boulder
  • A bike pump/repair station alongside a bike rack in a park
Nadia Ahmed Nagib W.

Peace is not too complicated

1mo

Oh this is fabulous! Thank you Mayor Adams, City Counsel, and Parks Commish Sue Donoghue! When I first joined the Prospect Park Alliance Development Committee years ago, I suggested a skate park for Prospect Park. All the kids I knew thought it would be fabulous. For the adults in charge of Prospect Park, it was not the right time or location I guess to embrace the skaters and roller bladers. I love any facility that invites outdoor physical exercise for New Yorkers, especially youth.

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MICHAEL WHITEMAN

President at BAUM+WHITEMAN INTERNATIONAL RESTAURANT CONSULTANTS

1mo

Looks just fab. Good use of vacant space; not good use for existing park land. Please.

Elizabeth Horstman

Health & Wellness Guide, Certified Personal Trainer, Salsa Instructor

1mo

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