To: Councilman Donovan Richards, NYC Council Member, Borough President Melinda Katz, Queens Borough President, and Community District 13
Renovate Brookville Park Football Field Now!!!
The condition of the Brookville Park football field and surrounding area are posing a risk to our young people and are frankly an embarrassment to our community. The field and the surrounding area needs to be renovated immediately to appropriately support approximately 200 Southeast Queens families every year who use the field for football, cheerleading, and soccer activities.
Why is this important?
My son is one of approximately 200 young people who participate as a member of the Rosedale Jets Football Program. The turf field at Brookville Park is cushioned with rubber pellets. Because of normal wear and tear the pellets are no longer under the turf but are escaping and sitting on the surface of the turf. In the age of concussions, this is unacceptable. Our community park needs to be renovated to properly support and serve our young people. This program is helping to not only teach young people football and cheerleading but more importantly, it is a young person's mentoring program to help stem the tide of underperformance in education. As our young people play at different fields in other communities they are given the stark message that they are undeserving of the same quality of public recreation space as their contemporaries. This is unacceptable and we can change this by standing together.