Babcock Park — Attraction in Hialeah

This park used to be amazing back in the day when The Hernandez Family ran it. Ever since then the park has never been the same. Whoever is taking charge now has really done the bare minimum. The park on sundays u mine as well not even go because although they say they open from 9:30-5:30pm the main bathrooms the park has are never opener and remain locked all of Sunday it’s full day.. I used to come every Sunday to excessive and 2 times in the week as well and this is the 9th Sunday I come and bathrooms are locked .. very very rarley threes ever a Sunday that I find it open i’m not quite sure why this is happening. I’m not sure if the staff that works on Sunday since they’re probably the only ones here they decide to not open it that way they don’t have to clean it or close it one less thing to do for closing not sure but most of the time is close once or twice that I’ve come it’s open. I’m not exactly understanding the situation with that why are there some select Sundays that did you open most of the other ones they don’t? I’m just not gonna come on Sunday. And when I took pride and saying that with the Hernandez family, this park was too much better. I’m not just saying because this works from my mouth. I’m saying it because I play baseball here and I was in this park every single day as of age 6 till like 15 or 16 years old every single day I still live four houses Down from the park and the difference is monumental.

Oh wait but there’s more I almost forgot now they’re only opening on Sundays two gates not even the main gates are opened. They just open the two gates that are closest to the office on the back by the pool because it’s more convenient and they remain every other gate to enter to the park, locked with chain on Sundays Even the parts main entrance the...

The bathrooms are NEVER open so people have to find a tree to piss behind. God forbid you have a daughter who has to go to the bathroom because you would have to take her back home because these people don't open the bathrooms. The only one that is open all the time is the one at the rec center. The one next to the batting cage in the center of the park is always closed, but sometimes you will see someone from the batting cage open it up to use it and then lock it back up. The one on the southeast corner of the park is NEVER open despite kids practicing there every night of the week. Yesterday I called the rec office to ask why the bathrooms are never open, and a child answered the phone and told me that all the employees were at the basketball court, so I had to do what I had to do. The pool is never open. I can't remember the last time the pool there was open. On top of everything, there's always young teenagers smoking weed here, most of the time in plain sight right in front of people, which is incredible considering that there is a police station right next door. I grew up in this park in the 80' s & 90's when Hernandez was there and it was beautiful and full of life now, it smells like piss & weed. It's a shame to see how far this...

Historically Babcock Park and it's 7 youth baseball fields have provided a place for our youth to play baseball and stay off the streets, however since the late Angel Hernandez Sr who ran Hialeah Khoury League and Hialeah Community Baseball Association for nearly 4 decades, these fields have since been a GHOST town. I grew up and played here my entire youth for Hernandez and Hialeah Khoury League and I will forever thank Hernandez for all his efforts with Hialeah Khoury League this keeping me off the streets. It is so sad to see these...