TELL THEM TODAY!

Contact officials (info below) and spread the word! We shouldn’t sacrifice green urban park spaces for great skate spaces— especially in a climate crisis! Build on already-paved space!

Brooklyn Community Board voted against the Mount Prospect Park paving plan with a detailed resolution addressing problems related to climate, safety, and process. The Board called paving green space for skate space “bad public policy” and welcomed skaters and skate construction “with open arms” — on already paved space. Friends of Mount Prospect Park (with more than 2000 locally gathered signatures) agrees!

Support keeping Mount Prospect Park green, so everyone can keep enjoying pickup soccer, frisbee, picnics and hanging out. Daycares and camps with no outdoor space can keep using it to play. Elderly people and people with disabilities can keep using it easily. Everyone can enjoy Mount Prospect Park’s green space for free! (And with $11M of our public money, the City can rehab nearby dilapidated skate spaces, and build opportunities on local paved space. See our Green Skaters page for just a few examples.)

More paving = more heat. We have killer heat and too many paved heat islands — and the planet’s getting hotter. Paving makes flooding and sewer overwhelm worse. Bad storms are increasing. We want each green space decision to support our climate future. Officials should live up to the policies they put on paper.