New York City Officials Are Turning Corona, Queens Into a Legal and Social Disaster and a Dumping Ground.
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Department of Parks and Recreation
KATHRYN SPOTA - Inspector General
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To be fair to the Parks Permit Department headed by Michele Young and Adam in charge of the permits, we can report some results for the 2025 Season.
We no longer have the Adult Softball Teams taking over our neighborhood with their reckless behavior, unfortunately we still have a battle on our hands regarding the Volleyball Teams.
Even though it was made clear to Young and Adam that the Volleyball Teams have been in violation with most of the Parks rules, they decided to give them special treatment and a another chance, despite my documentation of all the violations reported and documented. Instead of booking them somewhere else, they decided to give the Volleyball Teams a "WAIT AND SEE" option by making the application more difficult to fill out hoping they won't be able to comply or whatever they thought would stop them.
Naturally it backfired and I send a letter to Michelle Young the director of Community Services and again, no response when sending information regarding Hinton Park violations. When I thanked her for fixing the Softball Teams I received a letter back, but anything to do with actual Hinton Park business reflecting incompetency, no communication, and remind you, she is a director of Consumer Services, or lack thereof.
Public Alcohol Consumption and Urination
The adult volleyball teams run a fully organized Vendor operation and they monopolize the Volleyball court. They set up the net sometimes as early as 1pm and play until passed midnight, with no other teams having an opportunity to use the court as well. This is going on for years with no interference from Parks officials. The Park officials continue to turn a blind eye and let the teams run wild just like what they did with the adult softball teams.
The fact that it was agreed on in the meetings to book youth teams to align with the neighborhood, backed by the Chief Officer, that felt on death ears with Young and Adam.
The disrespect and the gaslighting by the permits office is outrageous, these people have no right to represent any community, as we see them failing to do their job year after year after year, its perthitic and a disgrace. I understand this sounds personal, but the idea that those people are getting away with this abuse by sports teams since documented in 2020, it is getting personal, because you ALL know why.
Lets hope that the Queens Chronicle newspaper who did a wonderful report on Hinton Park will write a follow up on the Volleyball teams, because I am getting complaints from the local residents again and rightly so.
just looking at the bottles collected in the bag and on the grass,
do WE really need those people to come to our neighborhood?
