by Emma Davey Despite our verdant name, Greenpoint contains less park space than the average New York City neighborhood, so we should all try to coexist and do our part to keep our parks beautiful.
Unfortunately, a series of incidents at Transmitter Park is shedding light on some less-than-neighborly actions perpetrated by park-goers.
We ran a PSA in February asking dog owners to keep their dogs off the grassafter the NYC Parks Department reseeded it. While off-leash…
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Keep dogs off the grass and leashed. It never amazes me how dog owners also (99%) don’t keep them on a short leash when approaching other dogs, adults kids, delaying breaking up dog fights or knocking over humans.
Enforce laws re no pot smoking in the park. The place stinks especially on the weekends.
Amen Paul – most dog owners are obnoxious and selfish, they don’t let people pass them on the sidewalk and don’t stop their dogs from jumping on you with their dirty paws/slobbery mouth. The pot smoking in public parks is out of control and ruins what little fresh air we get from those spaces
I would love to see a pristine park but with zero enforcement against littering, dog walkers who let their animals pee and defecate all over the place, and rampant drug use, what do you expect? Also, who are you targeting with this message? There are a lot of vile humans who visit the waterfront at Domino and Transmitter Park that don’t live in the neighborhood or NYC.
I hope the people who need to hear this message actually read this article. I’m really sorry to see what happened to Transmitter tree. It’s really heartbreaking to see people either unaware or not care about the consequences to others of their actions. I live by McGolrick park, and we have many of the same issues – dogs off leash despite having two nice dog parks, littering, afternoon parties that aren’t cleaned up, destruction of plants etc. Parks should be enforcing the rules and educating people, which would take many more parks agents than the city currently employs. I feel helpless at times knowing how to help other than calling 311 and messaging local representatives.
Transmiter park smells like public restroom, full of dogs peeing everywhere