St. Mary's Playground — Attraction in New York

This neighborhood was thirty for a skatepark for years and years when they built this park. Sadly, the delivery person drank them all on the way over. It’s like digging in the cereal box for the prize and they forgot to put one in. It’s like a burger with nothing between the buns except lettuce. It’s like when Metallica released that album Load.

I always do my best not to be critical of a skatepark design and talk the good things about them, let kids find a way to skate it. It’s going to make them that much better...but that’s a stretch here.

Why is there a fence ONLY around the skatepark? This area is way to small for the obstacles and there is not enough run up to use either ledge in any meaningful way.

LKW’s are out in force, have to be careful you don’t catch a body.

I’ve heard this skatepark stays dry during the rain, and the mini ramp is skateable, albeit with too much flat bottom. Also F&F pizza is walking distance. Basing my 3 stars on these things.

But really I should give it zero stars on the strength...

Brand new playground! It is shaded by the bridge - great on a hot day! There are sprinklers, padded playground areas, 3 separate play structures including one for toddlers, as well as a separate area with swings. There are plenty of benches, but no tables other than 3 chess tables. Really well done playground. Hope it remains in good shape as...

Went for the skatepark on a Saturday a few weeks back. It’s in good condition since it’s new, but there were a ton of kids running around the whole time and parents following them or simply sitting on the ledge. It wasn’t raining when I was there, but I’d imagine it would stay dry with it being...