PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The battle between the city and Friends of Mount Prospect over a proposed skate park seems to have come to a standstill. Friends of Mount Prospect Park have delivered a petition ...
Professional guidelines emphasize the importance of clear sightlines from the street and through the planned skate complex for a healthy site. But these sightlines do not exist in Mount Prospect Park, ...
The city’s plan to pave over part of a Brooklyn park to build a skateboarding complex could lead to injuries from falling acorns and twigs — not to mention “organ-level impalement” on a nearby fence, ...
A January announcement from Mayor Eric Adams that the city plans to build a 40,000-square-foot skate park at Mount Prospect Heights continues to spark debate in the community. Members of the group ...
It’s been 55 years since a bond referendum was passed to improve Mt. Prospect Park District. Since then, the Park District has worked hard to properly maintain its parks, pools, and recreation ...
A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. If the original plans for Prospect Park had been implemented, the land where the Brooklyn Museum, the Botanic Gardens, Mount Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Public ...
Mount Prospect Park may be scenic, but it's now the center of a controversy over plans to build a 40,000-square-foot skate park on top of it. The $24.8 million Brooklyn Skate Garden project in Mount ...
Members of the group Friends of Mount Prospect Park have been speaking out against it since Day 1, with Helen Koh, who sits on the group's Steering Committee, saying the park "was built as a place of ...