Tag: Brooklyn Skate Garden

Several hundred community members made their presence felt at the first official public gathering for the proposed “Brooklyn Skate Garden.”

Opposing sides clash in first ‘Brooklyn Skate Garden’ community meeting

March 27 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Nobody was able to coast through this meeting. Both sides...

Benjamin Anderson Bashein (left), CEO of The Skatepark Project.Photo courtesy of The Skatepark Project

Neighbors of Mount Prospect Park continue to protest skateboard arena

March 8 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman

Full slideshow below GRAND ARMY PLAZA — A second community meeting to discuss...

When skaters exit the elevated park, many of the good skaters will come down this stairway adjacent to one of the entrances to the Brooklyn Public Library. This is a potential danger point, as many children use this entrance to the library.Photos: Wayne Daren Schneiderman/Brooklyn Eagle

‘This is going to be a nightmare’:
‘Skate Garden’ proposed for Brooklyn’s Mount Prospect Park met with public resistance

February 9 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — If you build it, they won’t come. In an...