Prospect Park Alliance — Local services in New York

Prospect Park has very unfortunately become a free-for-all of large e-bikes that zoom both inside the park and along its perimeter, on the sidewalk, on the lawns, inside the loops, inside the trails - anywhere. I was knocked by one the other week. A friend of mine had her arm shattered. I've watched them blast through red lights and crosswalks, and drive through families pushing strollers and little kids running about. It's also become a trash dump. Very sad as it is Brooklyn's only real piece of nature.

UPDATE: I wrote this a year ago and sadly not much has changed. The park is slightly cleaner thanks solely to the hard work of volunteers. There are still homeless people camping there and one in particular who chases women with a stick, and in one widely publicized case, killed a woman's dog. NADA has been done about it. The guy continues to roam the park with impunity because the NYPD is lazy as all get out and our city reps are more concerned about THIS GUY than the residents who use the park, clean it up, pay...

I was born and raised in Brooklyn and have many fond memories of Prospect Part in the 60s through the 80s. I’ve known the park in good time and bad. Leaving the NY area for most of the last 40 years I fell out of touch with the park. When I left in 1980 the park was in decline. I’m retired now and have moved back to the area. Today I returned to the park for the first time in a long while. I was blown away. WOW! I don’t know how long the Alliance has been running the park but they are doing an...

Okay this place seemed so sketchy online but I’m SO GLAD I went. I mean, it’s small but not as small as people are making it seem(?!). It was clean, everyone was so over-the-top friendly and professional that I tried to get everyone’s names to give them a shout out: Tisha (?), Karen, Jason, and Nikita! Special shout out to Nikita who was absolutely phenomenal with all of the kids coming in. I will absolutely take the train 30 minutes out of my way just to come here again. Thank you thank...