Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Druggie playground to be locked at night
From DNA Info:
The city has begun locking up a local playground overnight after complaints from parents who say they've discovered used condoms, human feces and drug paraphernalia in the play space, officials said Monday.
Sean's Place, located on 38th Street between Broadway and 31st Avenue, is supposed to close at 9 p.m. but has been a "consistent nighttime hangout" according to City Councilman Costa Constantinides.
"Parents [are] coming here in the morning and finding things you shouldn't find in a children's playground," the lawmaker said. "Not every park gets locked, but we knew that this park had to be."
Since Wednesday, members of the city's Parks Enforcement Patrol started locking Sean's Place at night, a Parks Department spokeswoman said.
Imagine locking a playground at night when kids don't use it. What a novel concept!
15 comments:
It took 15 years to figure this out???
More shit for Ass-toria!
Sounds just like the old New York City!!
The fence will be cut open this evening...
I've seen people drinking in brad daylight in the children's playground in the park in front of the Edward Bleeker Junior High School between 26th Avenue and Willets Point Blvd in North Flushing.
Some white trashy men drinking in the area next to the tennis courts where they are supposed to be playing chess not BB-Quing, lots of pot users in the field behind the hand ball courts, many thieves and drug users in the hand ball courts, they also block the entrance to the courts with trash bins like they own the place and over use the courts not allowing young adults and children their right to use them.
All this in front of an elementary and middle schools. No wonder the 109 precinct is under investigation.
Cause druggies can't climb fences, right?
Now law abiding citizens can't use it at night, but the scofflaws and criminals will hardly even notice the obstacle.
god forbid they should hire a janitor, or send a cop or a park ranger to poke their head in some nights. No, let's just close it off for everyone.
Wow, see what can happen when people actually give enough of a crap about their neighborhood (and their kids, and themselves) to get something like this done? I wish the people who live near me cared. I feel like the only person raising my crazy voice about the OMNIPRESENT drug baggies, jizzy condoms, water bottles full of urine, crack pipes, and giant piles of cokesh*t on 43rd Avenue, right around the corner from an elementary school and a preschool. Everything is terrible, but people seem to like it that way. I am very happy that these Astoria people got the powers that be to take SOME action, but I admit that reading this aricle also made me feel more hopeless than ever about the lawless sh*tstye that is 43rd Avenue :(
You don't need to lock it, just patrol it.
Run the ID of anyone found in the park. They would get the picture pretty soon.
More shit for Ass-toria!
After the Steinway mansion, million dollar dog runs, and Costa letting the hipshits take over the community board with their silly bike lanes everyone in that community is looking for a change.
Costa, Astoria's answer to Obama and de Blasio. What a disappointment.
I don't know why it's not locked already at night. Playgrounds in Auburndale and Bayside are locked at night, and there's nowhere near the amount of trouble here.
Hahaha, yea like that will stop em !
Now they will go right over the fence, make their own keys and feel even safer to drug and prostitute in the park.
What a great newly built job for some city employee. "unlock + quick walk around morning, back to bed and re-lock evening"
yeah the cops really should clear out weeping beach park on bowne... teenagers drinking and getting high and homeless drunk day laborers right near the kids and parents... not cool the lazy 109 doesn't care... they know, but ignore it. It sucks
Playgrounds in Bayside are NOT all locked at night. You must be very lucky. I live near a playground on 201st street and the kids drink and hang out there all night. Broken beer bottles are everywhere. Bouncing basketballs in between shouting and pushing each other all hours of the night. And summer has not even arrived yet.
Wow, You would think our fellow officers would check on the park,
after all, it was renamed Sean's Place in 94 for one of their own that was slain.
Was a decent area back then, I used to play in there, back in the 70's & 80's.
Cut through the park & go to Cookie Kingdom if any one remembers that..
It amazes me that if the park in not in on a main st, how little it is checked on.
I remember waking around Astoria Park late at night being stopped and questioned
as well as sitting on a bench @ old 17 park on 30th ave & being asked what's my business there.
Here's an idea folks if you're having similar issues at playgrounds or whatever near your house, CALL 311 or 911 if necessary!!! Cops don't have crystal balls and won't know about these things IF YOU DONT TELL THEM.
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