Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Dog Park

2012-06-08 Thread Robert Thoman
Have you stopped and asked yourself WHY the sprinkler system hasn't worked in years, WHY the fountain is broken and has been used as an open air bathroom and garbage receptacle, WHY drugs are freely bought and sold in and around the park? Could the answer possibly be that the city, i.e.. the

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Dog Park

2012-06-08 Thread cbrianwatkins
If the park is such a valued and cherished area of the Historical Society (I use that term very loosely) how come none of it members are patrolling it and cleaning it like other organizations do for the other green spaces in the city? I regularly patrol/clean up a green space by my home and I

[AsburyPark] Re: Dog Park

2012-06-08 Thread Hinge
The city does a great job of keeping the park clean. And the city has quiet a fewother problem areas that need police attention. The park is ignored by the general public for some very simple reasons. First off, there's nor a single park bench there. Secondly, because it's so unused by the

[AsburyPark] Re: Dog Park

2012-06-08 Thread dfsavgny
I am on the fence about the dog park in Library Sq but I will give it a chance. I guess its selfishness since only a few of us dog owners use it now. I walk my little guy off the leash across streets etc. He probably wont want to go into the penned area but I will give it a chance and see what

[AsburyPark] Re: Dog Park

2012-06-08 Thread arcman210
The park as a space is a failure in current day Asbury Park. It's not a destination for anyone, it's an avoidance. The value of the park (or any park for that matter) is for the people who have the right to use it as a public space and with its current reputation, it's not very welcoming.

[AsburyPark] Re: Dog Park

2012-06-08 Thread oakdorf
suggestion: Seasonal special public works employees - kind of like special cops I had the fund of driving my mother in law's car back from florida a few weeks ago - ALONE. I took advantage of it - I stopped in Savannah at night, woke up early and took a 3 hour self-guided tour of the squares.

[AsburyPark] Re: Dog Park

2012-06-08 Thread oakdorf
my dog was attacked by a pit last week - my apparent drug dealing neighbors here in OT. My dog on my yard - off leash and their maniac that can only walk at night - apparently got off his leash (a chain). My dog more or less unhurt (just scared ) trip to Asbury Vet neighbor comes over next

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Dog Park

2012-06-08 Thread cbrianwatkins
My pitbull is a therapy dog...lives w/two shihtzu's who terrorize him. He's actually an American Staffordshire. Everyone around here knows him. He used to put on a show for people at the green space at 5th and Locust and Bridge.he'd climb the trees. Six feet up or so. Then he blew out both