Bay 8th Street – Dyker Beach Park – Mechanical Bull?! CB 10 and 11 Want to Eliminate BBQ Areas
Over the last two years, the Dyker Beach Park at Bay 8th Street has changed. Community Board 10 and Community Board 11 had a meeting about the park.
Before Covid, there were families who to the park to barbecue on the weekends. Now there are large groups using the park with amplified sounds. People use strobe lights at night because the park does not have lights late at night.
The park is open until 1:00 am. Last weekend, Josephine said there was a mechanical bull at the park! (Who got that crazy?)
Neighbors of the park complained about fireworks, amplified sound and a non-family atmosphere.
People talked about the open fires because people are having children’s birthday parties in the park.
Bill Colton was present at the meeting, but didn’t have any solutions. Andrew Gounardes staffer was present – she didn’t offer any solutions from Gounardes. Why didn’t he attend? This was about public safety and Gounardes has been very weak in that area.
These are the solutions that CB 10 and CB 11 gave:
1. Add the NYPDs lights to the area, so the people don’t have to use the strobe lights
2. Hand out a list of the rules of the park – educate the people and have these papers in multiple languages. Sonia offered to speak in Spanish to people.
3. Give tickets for noise (officers have to be trained to use the sound meter)
4. Captain Tolson said he was going to send his community affairs officers and auxiliary officers. Lori Willis was glad there will be more of a presence in the park. She wants residents to tell her if the police presence has helped changed the park.
5. Dan wanted the Parks to update their signage in the park and have a link to the permits needed.
6. Both CB 10 and CB 11 voted to write a letter to eliminate the BBQ area in the park. WOW….that’s not good. I don’t BBQ there, but families who live in apartments love having that. Many people have a BBQ for children’s birthday parties.
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Hugs,
marlene
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