brower Park after hours

Take a picture of the signs that says park closes at 9:00 pm and show up at court with the evidence. A judge may just let you off on the technicality if the signs contradict the cops and each other. Of course, you'll be asked what you were doing in the park after dark, so you better be prepared to explain that.

Call Community Board 8 (CB8) 718-467-5574. Your local community board sets the access time of public parks (parks under the control of NYC Dept. of Parks). After you get your ticket adjudicated, try coming out to the 77th Pct. Community Council meeting on the 2nd Monday of December. The location floats, so call the pct. at 718-735-0611 to find out where the December meeting will be held, or ask CB8 if they have been notified. There you can complain about the apparent inconsistent policing that you experienced.

(fyi) Sunrise today, 11/21/2010 was at 6:50am and sundown is at 4:34pm as per the NY Times.

I'm not sure if the sign says the park closes at 9pm or dusk, but with recent shootings in and around Brower Park, the Police are left with little options. It's unfortunate that good people have to suffer because of the actions of a few idiots.

That is sometimes the problem. "Discretion" means different things to different people.

Some cops look at people of color and do not see "good people." Others look at hipsters and go into a blind rage.

Remember the cop who was filmed launching himself at a bicyclist, knocked him off his bike, and then claimed to have been assaulted by the bicyclist? To the cop, the bicyclist was not "good people."

Enforcement in Brower Park is a day by day thing. The park opens at dawn and closes at dusk. If there is a sign saying 9PM, the judge will tell you it is moot and use the time that will bring revenue.

Why did he pick you? You probably looked like the easy 'vic'.

Suggestions to complain? Complain about what? If there were a bunch of other people breaking the law and you got caught, it just wasn't your lucky day, pilgrim.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Sad thing is, whilst your in your comfy pad, sipping on whatever, worrying about reality fiction on tv, not paying attention to your gubbermint, lawmakers have made damn near everything illegal. Laws sit in the books, laying in wait, available for indiscriminate enforcement at any time. And you got pinched.

The next trick ? is are you gonna pay up, no ? asked, or ? the summons. It becomes a question of economics now. Is it worth you taking time and potential income out of your life to fight a summons. Does the math make sense? The city is counting on no. They're banking that you and half the other 5-10,000 people that got a ticket that day just drop a check in the mail.