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Those pushovers at the Parks Department have accepted the apology of MIHventures, who trashed Prospect Park during their annual illegal Heatwave BBQ. The Brooklyn Paper notes that everyone is getting along, and the Parks folk say they "will also ensure that they [MIH] fully comply with our rules and regulations when considering any future events at Prospect Park or any other park."
Maybe the new Dumpster will help them keep in line. The Daily News reports that a rise in park attendance coupled with cuts to the cleaning crew has left the park a mess every morning. "To handle the mounds of garbage that pile up over busy weekends this summer, officials have resorted to planting a mammoth Dumpster in the middle of the park." You see, this is why we can't have nice things. Couldn't we have all just cleaned up after ourselves? Then maybe we'd be getting a Dumpster pool instead.
Luckily, this isn't happening at every nature oasis in the city. One Brooklyn blogger is applauding the workers who clean up Sunset Park, noting that "On Monday (after a violent storm the night before), I walked through the park around 8 AM and noticed that the back half of the park was exceptionally cleaned up. Almost every trashcan had neatly tied bags next to it, and there was little garbage on the grass/walkways." Sounds like paradise.
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I think it is fair to say that Vaux and Olmsted did not design Prospect Park as a location for al fresco dining, drinking and barbecuing. Nor did they conceive of the park as a place where hundreds of people would congregate in a compact area for those purposes. They probably did imagine that visitors to their magnificent park would produce little refuse and would carry that refuse out with them. Times have changed. People's perception of the purpose of the park has changed. What results is tons of trash, not deposited in proper trash containers, forcing a parks department, already stressed, to clean what's left behind by such animals.
I wish we could throw everything Jen Carlson writes into that dumpster.
Blackie, play nice. Jen has gotten really good at photoshop. Remember the flying turtles?
In all fairness, Sunset Park is much, much smaller and doesn't allow BBQ cookouts (although there are plenty of food vendors and people picnicking).
Prospect Park doesn't "allow" barbequing in most of the places where people do it. Nor do they "allow" consumption of alcohol and marijuana. But all of these things are done regularly, without any enforcement by police or park officials.
Corporate ventures shouldn't be allowed to host events in the parkland anyway, at least outside of areas like the bandshell. It's a refuge, not an event space.
Why don't they get the garbage cans that have a solar powered compactor inside, like Chicago?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12045048
"lifestyles" company MIHventures still pegs the needle on the douche-o-meter
If the Parks Department is hurting for money to pay staff then the city should start ticketing people with heavy fines for littering in the park. If you are too dumb and lazy to clean up after yourself then you should be forced to pay for the city to clean it up for you.