Community Board 8
Full Board Meeting
Thursday, September 12th
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Join us this Thursday, September 12th at 6:30pm for Community Board 8’s Full Board Meeting. These preliminary meetings matter! The community board wants to know why YOU support the Brooklyn Skate Garden. If you have never had a chance to attend your local community board meetings, now is the chance to join us and advocate for something that will enhance and your neighborhood. Get involved and learn all the steps that it takes to get our amazing Skate Garden built at Mount Prospect Park.
Join Loren Michelle the Director of @pabloramirezfoundation and @brooklynskategarden aka @mammasplifff and bring your friends and skate advocates to attend.
We hope you can make it!!! Save the date and mark your calendars. When you get involved with your community good things happen.
Even if you can’t physically make it to this Thursday’s meeting we encourage you to write emails of support to the community board and messages on the community board website for the Brooklyn Skate Garden and share why this project matters to you.
*See the bottom of this page for a sample letter and where to email it.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us by attending these very important meetings and continues to support the Brooklyn skate Garden. We appreciate all the advocates and our skate community. Together we are doing great things.
What: Community Board 8 Full Board Meeting
When: Thursday, Sept 12, 2024 (6:30 -9:00 pm)
Where:
Prospect Heights / Brooklyn
601 Dean St, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Why: Because these meetings matter!
Brooklyn Skate Garden Virtual Input Design Meeting
Wednesday May 1st, 6pm EST
Skaters, now is the time to share your ideas in what you would like to see in shaping & designing the Brooklyn Skate Garden.
This meeting is a great opportunities for everyone in our community to offer input on the design of the Brooklyn Skate Garden at Mount Prospect Park. Thank you to @theskateparkproject and all the locals and volunteers and skate advocates who have worked so hard to support the Brooklyn Skate Garden a project of the @pabloramirezfoundation and all these other incredible skate parks being revitalized and built for skaters and all wheeled riders in NYC. Thank you to @bkbreynoso @shahanafrombk @cmcrystalhudson @nycparks @nycmayorsoffice for believing in providing this growing community of skaters equitable green spaces to skate at our multi-use New York City Parks that are our backyards for ALL our residents.
Monday March 25, 2024
1st Community Engagement Meeting
Thank you to everyone who came out and shared your support for the @brooklynskategrden to be built at Mount Prospect Park.
Our 1st community engagement mtg was hosted on Monday March 25th and attended by over 300+ neighbors, skaters and who all shared their passions for BSG being built at Mount Prospect Park a city park for ALL.
The evening including remarks from @nyccomptroller @brad.lander @cmcrystalhudson @bkpreynoso @nycparks Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Martin Maher @nycmayorsoffice Ya-Ting Liu @theskateparkproject @benjaminbashein @alec_beck and Director of the Brooklyn Skate Garden and The Pablo Ramirez, Loren Michelle
For information about questions and frequently asked questions please click here.
THE BROOKLYN SKATE GARDEN
IS FUNDED!
The Brooklyn Skate Garden has been officially funded to make our dream a reality in Mount Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Thank you to the Mayor’s office, Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Marty Maher of NYC Parks, and our City Council Members Shahana Hanif, Crystal Hudson, and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. A big thanks goes out to The Skatepark Project whose support has been instrumental. We are forever thankful to all of the volunteers and NYC Skaters who have supported us by attending our events and getting behind our mission since 2019.
The vision of BSG, inspired by The Pablo Ramirez Foundation, honors the legacy of Pablo Ramirez, whose life was the catalyst for this project. Pablo grew up skating the streets of Brooklyn, NYC, and ultimately became a professional skateboarder. The BSG will be a haven for our youth and community. We are beyond thrilled to plant seeds and nourish our green spaces at our Mount Prospect Park home, in the cultural heart of Brooklyn. We welcome your support! We will continue to share BSG news and updates.
SAMPLE LETTER to Community Board 8
Email to: brooklyncb8@gmail.com
“Dear Chair Weatherspoon, Chair Watson, Ms. George, and members of Community Board 8,
Thank you for your unwavering dedication to the communities of Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Weeksville and thank you for your willingness to listen to the residents of these communities.
My name is (insert your name) and I am a local long time resident of this community. I have been enjoying Mount Prospect Park for many years. I think that the proposed Brooklyn Skate Garden would be an amazing addition to the surrounding neighborhoods and community members because: (insert briefly why you support the Brooklyn Skate).
As a constituent, I implore you to support this project and consider all of its many positive benefits to the areas you represent and the city as a whole. Skateboarding is an Olympic sport. There are approximately 300,000 action sports participants in New York City and they deserve a safe place to practice their passions. The vast majority of these individuals are young children, teenagers, family members and individuals who want positive places to get healthy exercise. They have been pushed to the sidelines of our city, marginalized, and forced to do what they love in unsafe and unhealthy conditions.
The NYC Parks Department has stated that the Brooklyn Skate Garden will not impact any of the current activities that Mount Prospect Park is used for. It will also incorporate environmentally sustainable infrastructure to mitigate the current flooding problem and the planting of new beautiful landscaping and abundance of trees. It truly will be a green addition and an innovated model for sustainability. Additionally beyond that the NYC Parks Dept is committing to putting much needed resources into improving the park overall. This is an undeniable enhancement to the community and an opportunity to add something truly special that will last for generations.
Thank you again for your support and consideration.
Best,
(Your name)