Kid park on Underhill/Prospect Place to finally open!

cool thanks for the info . lol now only if i can steal swing time from the wee ones .

I peeked in the other day with my lil' bricktops as they were finishing up the last painting on the whales that will spout the water in the water-park part...the guy supervising said final city inspection is TODAY -- god willing there won't be any glitches (tho with the city you never know), and after that it's up to the city as to when it will open (and with that you never know). My lil' bricktops are excited to play there -- and, after 3 long summers without our neighborhood park, I'm excited to take them there....hopefully the druggies that used to hang out there won't, this time around.....

Bricktop wrote: hopefully the druggies that used to hang out there won't, this time around.....

I've heard that Tish James and local police will be taking an active interest in making sure the park environs are "family friendly".

Yeah, I just spoke with the contractor...the inspection with the city passed and now it's up to the city to decide when to open it...looks great!

Hooray! We are going today--raining or not.

Whoever designed the water drainage system for sculptures should be shot. What were they thinking? The standing water will grow algae and also make a nice home for Mosquitos.

And speaking of the sculptures. I have NOT seen one child go near the 2 small pieces near the tiny jungle jim. Very welcoming to a small person, right?

"Here you go Kid. This is what I designed when I dropped acid. Go play on my nightmare."

Scary stuff.

Ha! All the kids I saw had a great time. Not a complaint from parents either. Someone said there wasn't enough shade but I thought there was more than at the Lincoln playground. It was nice to see all of our kiddie friends in the same place.
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I love it, and my 2yr old daughter loves the sculptures. I don't know what's to complain about. There is enough shade in my opinion, and it's well designed. It beats having to go to the slope.

The place was hoppin' yesterday! It was good to see so many people making use of the space.

Those, I think are for babies learning to walk and cruise. Like in the Tot-Lot in Prospect Park--low to the ground with pieces to hold on to. If not designed for that, I certainly considered putting my daughter down in front of it but she's still too little. I like them.

How long til a kid gets stuck in that thing... shit, how long til MY kid gets stuck in that thing?!

poppy13 wrote: Took some photos yesterday... those little sculptures are weird. Can't even really crawl inside them or anything. What good are they?

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I love how surreal they are! It's like, "Kids, go play, and become familiar with Dali while you are at it!" Genius!

I like the sculptures a lot and so does my 2yr old. Art is a good thing, and they are not weird but thought provoking.

The sculptures do look freaky, but to my 2 y.o. they were as good as the Sistine Chapel.

Once she saw the faces and the figures, she had a long story going about how one of them was Mama and one was her sister and one was a door to the library and....

All in all, the space put both the kid and me in a good mood. I'd love for the kids over 7 to stop dominating the main sprinkler, but at least here they made it harder for the big kids to simply bicycle through the sprinkler area, as they sometimes do at the Lincoln Pl playground.

Best of all was the familiar faces just showing up, with no advance planning.

GOD wrote:
The pieces of metal on the ground are NOT Dali. Take your kid to a Museum and have them look a a REAL Dali. That's art.

Since when have we started encouraging people to enjoy graven images?

Maybe it's just me, but this "God" schtick is getting pretty tiresome.