Play time is paint time for Bay Ridge kids
Children fix hopscotch board in Russell Pedersen Park
John Quaglione was walking through Russell Pedersen Playground in Bay Ridge with his 4-year-old daughter Natalie on a summer afternoon when Natalie noticed something that bothered her. “The hopscotch board was all worn out. You couldn’t even see the numbers. There was no way kids could play on it,” John Quaglione told the Brooklyn Eagle.
A few minutes later, little Natalie was playing on the slide when she told her father, who works as deputy chief of staff to state Sen. Marty Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-Southwest Brooklyn), that she thought it was bad that children couldn’t play hopscotch because of the sorry condition of the board.
She also asked her father if he could call “your friend” in the Parks Department to get it repaired.