How 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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How Hinton Park’s Lawlessness & Reckless Behavior by Adult Sports Teams supported by Council member Moya And The NYC Parks Department Is Devaluing Our Homes and Has Been Endangering 2,000 Residents since 2019.
Hinton Park
The Park That Never Sleeps
and the Rules are
"NO" Rules - 24 hours a day.
Directly Affected are about 800 apartments and 2,000 residents
AND ALSO AFFECTED ARE
HUNDREDS OF 1 TO 4 GRADES ATTENDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ACROSS THE STREET.
Broken Promises and Bureaucratic Failures Continue:
A Call for Accountability at Hinton Park
AND THE RESIGNATION OF CYNTHIA THOMPSON.
It’s beyond believe to witness the continues lawlessness at Hinton Park year after year, even after the last meeting on September 16, 2024, with Parks officials—including the Chief of Operation Philip Sparacio and Cynthia Thompson, the Inspector of Parks Enforcement Patrol—and Gonzalez Bayron the community representative from the 115th Police Precinct, were promised action was made again in managing the park and against the lawless and reckless adult sports teams with little to no results.
The Chief of Operations, Philip Sparacio, directed Thompson to address these ongoing violations with the Adult Sport Teams.
What happened Cynthia Thompson from the Parks Department to this direct order?
Weekend after weekend, the same reckless behavior continues, as if the meeting never happened. The teams over the past 5 years should have received hundreds of summonses by now, and their permit should have been revoked years ago, but they haven’t.
Why?
The aftermath of each weekend’s activities during softball season is a disgrace and that is an understatement after 5 years: public drinking and urination around the park, Playground and school continues, I saw a Dog drinking from the Water Fountain at the Playground, adult and baby rats running wild, Garbage continues piling up, beer bottle caps littering the ground, and broken glass posing real safety hazards for the kids and families who use the park and are going to school.
This is not just a failure in leadership and planed intentionally; it’s a clear liability by the Parks department and the people in charge. As a result of government employees bad intentions, the community is the one paying the price for this blatant disregard for law and order by those officials who are suppose to protect the residents. We are suppose to look at them as the solution to our problem, when in fact THEY are the problem.
Cynthia Thompson’s continued failure to enforce the rules—despite clear directives—has made her position untenable. Her lack of action since over this position is not only a direct risk to the residents but is also exposing the Parks Department to legal consequences.
We, the community, can no longer trust the parks department officials across the board, stand by while our safety and quality of life are disregarded by individuals incompetent to do their job. The bureaucracy may be thick, but the evidence of failure is much thicker.
As long as the Parks department continues to include local leaders to be involved in restructuring the programming, we the community have no confidence that real action is taken, and Hinton Park will remain a symbol of broken promises and neglect. When talking about Community involvement, we don't mean photo opportunities by councilmember Moya, Parks and Police department, just to be clear.
Mrs. Thompson, do the right thing.
Mrs. Young, you are also encouraged to do the right thing, you are the Director of Community Affairs, you don't reply to my emails and you told me that you will "TRY" to schedule a meeting with me. TRYING is not GOOD ENOUGH Mrs. Young. Please TRY HARDER and organize personal meetings with Wolfgang Busch and members from the community and help restore safety and trust in your Parks department.
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because we are all having so much fun, I decided to add something special to get the community involved.
Beer Bottle Caps Count Contest
inspired by Cynthia Thompson
$200 Grand Prize for the exact count of all the
Beer Bottle Caps you can count in the video below.
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10.8 2024, the Day After the late night party at 7am in the morning,
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Please Cynthia Thompson do the community a favor asap.
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How City Officials Are Turning Corona, Queens Into a Legal and Social Disaster.
For 3 years I have been documenting Hinton Park, and here are my findings.
After the meeting on 9.16.24 with Parks officials included Cynthia Thompson and a Police officer from 115th precinct. Thompson was told by the Chief of Operation to look into the problems by the Adult Sports Teams. She didn't follow a direct order.
Here is what's happening week-end after week-end year after year since 2020 when it was documented by Councilmember Moya for the first time. Every week the Parks and Traffic rules are violated and the sports teams should receive summonses every week-end.
Make that city some money so you can hire staff to protect us. I didn't go to Harvard or Yale and I can figure this out. By now those teams should have received hundreds of summonses, but yet there are not enough summonses on record to remove the Permits from all those Adult sports teams violating parks and traffic laws year after year after year. LOST MONEY IN THE CITY BUDGET.
Below is a summary of what happens when the Parks department gets together at a meeting and talks AT each other about stuff and the things they are going to do to make it better. While I was listening to those folks I could hear that the bureaucracy was so think I could have cut it with a knife. It was no news flash to see how self destructive the parks department is operating, because we experience it day after day and year after year.
Here is the outcome when people talk stuff at meetings when it is quite noticeable in the tone of their voices that there is no real intention to fix anything. Parks favorite, ITS BAND AID TIME. We can already see it by Thompson failing to comply with a direct order.
10.6.27
These violations below happened 3 weeks after the meeting when Thompson was told to fix it... this is what Thompson's fixing looks like... ?
More Promises made by the Parks and Police Officials on 9.16.2024.
My consistent reporting was recognized by the Queens Chronicle newspaper and let to a meeting with Parks and Police officials on September 16th, 2024, see attendees list below.
- Garbage still piling up at the Playground entrance, exposing the children and attracting Rodents, thank you Parks department for welcoming our children with a pile of garbage.
- All Play Courts are not locked, open 24/7
- about 100 Youth and Children with no parents or supervision by the Parks Department 10.2.24 at 6:40pm
- Dogs drinking from Water fountain at Playground, no supervision, thank you Parks Department for exposing our children to this unsafe and unhealthy condition.
No Oversight, No to little Enforcement As Of Yet Addressing the Violations. To assign staff during no crime hours to monitor the park is another joke by the Parks & Police department.
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IN THE MEDIA
thank you Queens Chronicle and Michael Gannon for your community support.
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