The Doodee Dust Bowl of Transmitter Park

I don’t know if this is a repetitive complaint, an obvious observation, a lingering lamenting feeling, or all of the above. I’m bummed out that people just let their dogs off leash in the center of the park and there’s very little grass, and where there is grass, there’s leftover poop stuck to it. It’s about to be summer and there’s been no effort to regrow the grass and I am pretty sure people do not get ticketed.

Today I saw dogs off leash with the owners across the other side of the park. One of these dogs started a fight with a dog on leash. I observed all of this with my leashed dog while trying (unsuccessfully) to mind my business hence this post. My dog is fine off leash but I don’t take her off because it’s not appropriate here. There’s no where to go with grass in the neighborhood that doesn’t have poop on it.

Do we speak to our local officials? I know it’s an issue there’s no public dog park in this part of Greenpoint but man Transmitter is really a mess. I have two dogs and I don’t let them go wherever they want because this is a community and I try to treat it as such. I’m not sure what to do.