Pierrepont Playground — Attraction in New York

ATTN BLACK & BROWN PERSONS & ALLIES. This playground is frequented by some extremely racist people who also teach their children racist and dangerous behaviors. I visit this neighborhood once to twice a month and began bringing my son to this park on the days we visit. From the very first time I visited this park I noticed that the unspoken culture among the white and white adjacent parents is to wear down on the black and brown parents until they leave the park. I've seen them make the park unsafe for persons of color by repeatedly covertly probing and prodding at both parent and children of color who do not conform to and take on the expected exhaustion of a worn and weary black or brown person. They will do this and even use their children to do this until the person of color leaves. I watched them do it to a brown woman of Indian decent the first day I visited. On my last visit after several children ostracized my 12 month baby, a young boy that befriended him excited me at the thought that perhaps his parents were teaching him racial decency and cultural inclusivity, blinded by my excitement, I almost let myself ignore that he and his older sibling began petting my son like a dog and then the young boy tried to get him to fall. My son is not yet walking and the boy encouraged him to climb a big kid ladder in an attempt to get him to fall in a way that would actually hurt him. When I left I noticed that the other parents wore expressions of satisfaction that they had worn down yet another person of color, as I initially observed them do to the Indian woman on my first visit and as I felt them do to me on every other occasion I visited until this point. I would add more detail, but the people this warning is for will understand and experience it for themselves if they visit the park. I would say not to visit this park, but that would give racists and racism as a whole the impression that they/it can win in public domains like parks and places black and brown children and parents have a right to be. BUT when you take your children here be vigilant of both the parents and the children and do your best to not leave with the monkey on your back that they will surely try to make you leave with. God...

The selling point of this park is its size in leafy Brooklyn Heights. There's a fenced-of play area for toddlers and younger kids, and a larger play area for older kids. Plenty of room for kids to run, and tall iron fencing surrounds it to keep the kids from running through traffic.

The swings are a big draw, but there are only five: two regular swings and three baby swings, so waits for a seat can be long.

The park is cleaned regularly and residents keep it neat. It can be crowded in good weather during the school year as it is visited regularly by large day care groups. Middle- and late- August are its least busy fair weather times.

Public bathrooms are available on site. They are not the best, but work when you bung up your timing and the kid has to go somewhere.

It's right off the Brooklyn Promenade, so a walk to or from can be quite pleasant. It is about 7-10 minutes' walk to the 2/3 train at Clark Street, and about 12-14 minutes from the A/C at High Street/Brooklyn Bridge. If aprés-park shopping is your goal, that's about 15 minutes from Trader Joe's or Sahadi's on Atlantic Avenue. If you want to stop the kids off and walk your dog, the famous Squibb Hill dog run is about 10 minutes away, just down...

There is plenty of room to run around and play. There are actually 2 play grounds in this one Park and an area with swings (some for babies and others for bigger kids). There are also bathrooms here which can be really convenient (and a water fountain). The play grounds themselves are a little bit older, but not too bad. It's right be the promenade so you get a pretty good view especially while chasing kids on the play ground structure. There are also trees here so when it's really hot out, you get a little bit of shade (from the trees and the nearby buildings too).

All in all a nice place to go in Brooklyn Heights, and in the summertime you can anyways head over to Montague street for...