CALLING GREEN SKATERS!  

Skating can be pretty green — unless you pave over a beloved local park to build a massive skate complex!

Don’t let officials use skaters to create climate conflict. Raise your voice! We shouldn’t have to choose between saving green space and having great skate space.

(Use action steps, below — and spread the word!)

IN THE NEWS: Brooklyn Community Board votes to welcome skate spaces with open arms — but votes that paving green space for skate space is “bad public policy.”

Tell officials to do a 180 on paving Mount Prospect Park. And send your message to Tony Hawk, too! Tony was a featured speaker at Climate Action Day — he shouldn’t support paving green space! (https://www.tonyhawk.com/contact)

Here’s a sample comment:

• I want great skate spaces – AND I believe no green park space should be paved for me to skate. Don’t pave Mount Prospect Park in my name!

• I support keeping Mount Prospect Park green, so everyone can keep enjoying pickup soccer, frisbee, picnics & hanging out. Daycares & camps with no outdoor space can keep using it to play. Elderly people & people with disabilities can keep using it easily. Families with dogs stay super-comfortable using the park. Everyone (including me!) can enjoy Mount Prospect Park’s green space for free!

• More paving = more heat. We have killer heat & paved heat islands & the planet’s getting hotter.

• Paving makes flooding and sewer overwhelm worse. Bad storms are increasing.

• I want a climate future. I don’t want to pave more green and be part of making the world worse off… AND I WANT TO SKATE! Urban skating can be super-green! 

Where to build in Brooklyn – with our public money!

(btw, Tony Hawk’s donating “design,” not $$)

• Make Brower Skatepark SICK! Already funded, in Crown Heights, next door to Prospect Heights and Mount Prospect Park

• Finally add the bowl to Thomas Greene Skatepark, minutes from Mt Prospect. Schools all around. Near Atlantic Terminal (nearly every Bklyn subway). Tony Hawk gave $10K in 2010. Homage Skate Academy wanted a bowl – if only they could get $$! Build up the bowl and add green. Everyone wins!

• Build up Washington skatepark.

• Build for Kensington skaters near Greenwood Playground – huge paved space there.

• Build on the Parks Dept paved lot at Columbus Park Plaza, for skaters there! (Politicians support & say they just need $ to build.) 

• Use other paved spaces in areas with no skateparks. Build great skate spaces for everyone!

  ACTION STEPS

  1. Write to officials, with contact info, below.

  2. Reach out to Tony Hawk! https://www.tonyhawk.com/contact

  3. Spread the word for other skateboarders to get involved!

  We shouldn’t have to choose between great skate spaces and working to address our climate crisis.

  Build on paved space!

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