Dr. Gertrude B. Kelly Playground — Attraction in New York

Very dirty park … every single morning the people in the neighborhood bring their dogs inside this playground 🛝 to run around and play as if it’s a dog park. Clearly there’s signs stating no pets allowed and they do so every single morning. If you don’t believe me … go there between the hours or 7-9am and you would see how many of them in there with the dogs running and playing. The dogs use the sprinklers as well and run as normal splashing around. Then children have to play there during the day and who knows what child or even adults have allergic reaction to pets. It needs to stop, but clearly the Parks association don’t care 🤷🏾‍♀️ There’s a Middle School right across the street and the kids in there hanging out, smoking etc - the park is so filthy and so not kept is just ridiculous. They just need to do some serious upgrading in the park cause it can be a really nice park and just needs to be maintained like many other parks in the...

Not really a well maintained park for some reason, unlike other nearby similar open spaces in this Chelsea area, which I can imagine must be very expensive.

But you can still find some badly needed respite by being there from time to time, which I do myself, especially if I wanna kill some time and the weather is nice. It's right by Google's offices in that huge building. I have seen the park being used by photographers for their models, as well as some probably neighborhood guys who would play basketball.

I have even seen some women players play basketball there. The whole place can use sprucing up. But I hope I won't be turned into a private place, mainly because we can all use a basic open space as this one from time to time. The place needs some advocates to keep it...

I was so excited to take my toddler after reading the great reviews. We got to the playground at midday to be surrounded by teenagers eating their lunch all over. They were everywhere, on all the benches, even lunching in the actual play structures. There even was a group of teens smoking weed. And finally they left trash all over, ketchup spills, drink spills, dirty tissues, empty bottles littered the area. Totally not acceptable place for children to be. It might be better on a weekend if someone comes along to clean the place up but otherwise I say...