Location: stretches narrowly from Dickinson to Greenwich in the middle of the block between 2nd and 3rd
Date visited: 1/24/12
Equipment: A number of separate sculptural pieces made of futuristic stainless steel, scattered around the artificial grass play space:
- A real teeter totter! Metal with spongy rubber bumpers underneath and similar material forming seats on top (seats 4), but the same action as the old wooden ones.
- A sort of golf-bal-on-a-tee contraption at calf that seems to spin and bounce up and down. (to sit on?)
- A tall pole shaped like a cat-tail stalk, with a disk at the base, which bounces and leans, maybe spins...
- A low arch (hanging bar + climbing?)
- A large metal dome (screams "king of the hill" game) that channels slide-climbing impulses. [Note: A sign warns that this gets very hot in summer sun.]
Ages: 0-8?
Surface: astroturf/brick
Shade(0-3): 0 (some young trees)
Water: N
Other: Some cement chess tables with cement benches.
Access: open
Impressions: Cute and innovative use of a tiny park space, but the futuristic play equipment is as much perpexing as inviting -- probably a group of kids would invent novel games around pieces a single preschooler couldn't really figure out how to play with (except for the teeter totter! whee!).
Overall rating: 7
