Ruppert Park — Attraction in New York

This review is mostly for the dog run in the park. It's a small park with a children's playground, lots of shade from the trees, some benches and tables, and a dog run. There are a lot of rats at night (probably unavoidable for most nyc parks) and occasionally there might be some sketchy characters at night but generally it's safe. The dog run is ok, it has consistently upgraded over the year (they added water and a better gate) but it's typically dirty, there's a random fence in the middle of it that probably would be better if it wasn't there since dogs run into it and there's always that dog owner that doesn't pick up after their dog's poop. Also, every time I clean my dogs paws after a visit here the water is black, so good luck if your dog rolls in this stuff 😅. Sometimes it can get very dusty, so when the dogs are running around they can kick up dust. Most of the dogs are usually friendly which is nice although in the summer there were a high amount of dog fights that occurred. Since then it's calmed down but there was a month where we avoided coming to the park because there were constantly incidents. There is a lot of room for improvement and hope to see more upgrades...

This park was a fun relief for our kids as we rushed around NYC. They loved climbing on all the equipment and running around freely. It was a great place to play in the middle of a big city.

There were lots of big trees and plenty of places to sit making it a really great place to have a picnic or enjoy some ice cream with your kids.

On the other hand, the park is really designed for preschool kids. The equipment is pretty small and there are no swings. There were metal gate barriers blocking off all the entrances which made it a little confusing to know where to enter and exit the park. I believe they were just there to keep kids from running off so we just walked around them and went in.

There are no bathrooms so make sure wherever you eat at that you use the bathroom before...

It's a quiet, tiny little park with plenty of trees so when I was passing by here yesterday I thought it would be nice to finish my coffee and read my book. There were too many pigeons (and I hate (and am scared of) roaming around making very loud googoo noises (they probably think they own the park since humans were definitely outnumbered); they were spraying dust and feather and God knows what every time they were flying here and there. It grossed me out too much so I got out as...