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PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The needle has moved very little since last June, when the Brooklyn Eagle reported on the $11,165,000 skate garden facility slated to be built in Brooklyn’s Mount Prospect Park.
According to Hayley Gorenberg, co-chair of the Friends of Mount Prospect Park, “The process going forward has not been very clear at all, and that’s very disturbing. We simply want transparency.”
On Oct. 2, Gorenberg received an email from a NYC Parks and Recreation representative telling her that they “would have a revised concept of a [park] design later this year.” NYC Parks declined to comment.
The skate park, which has also been backed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s office, is expected to be a custom poured-in-place concrete skate park built from the ground up — fitted with security lighting, spectator seating, community gardens, and space for programming to be integrated into the skate park and park setting.
With Adams’ recent federal indictment debacle and his fate hanging in the balance, Gorenberg was asked where she sees the future of the skate garden without the mayor’s backing.
“There’d be a much greater chance of it not happening,” Gorenberg said. “Other officials have to stand up and course correct; they have to show that they are not under the mayor’s thumb and that they are not just followers in [his] destructive plans.”
Gorenberg continued, “I hope that all of these officials, with their professed green climate commitments, actually live up to what they say they stand for.”
