Medium-sized Gravel Dog Run

This isn’t a dog park, it’s more of a run, but it offers space for romping and chasing down balls. There is water (they turn it off in winter, so bring your own), garbage bin for bagged waste, and people often bring extra bags for communal use (bring your own anyway, just in case).

It’s not beautiful, but it does the job. There is a regular crowd, and most of the humans know their dogs and supervise their play. An advantage to the smaller size of this run is that if something does arise between some of the dogs, the owners can get to them/separate them right away (we’ve been going all summer, almost every day, and only seen two instances needing intervention, but both times, intervention was quick).

The run is sandwiched between basketball courts, handball courts and a skate park, so there is some ball and skate noise, but it’s far, far quieter than some of the runs that are flanked by 278 or that are situated beneath or adjacent to bridges (my dog can’t relax and play at hillside or at brooklyn bridge park b/c of the traffic noise, but she does fine at this run).

We hear there are plans to renovate, adding more shade features and boulders to make games of chance more interesting- that’ll be cool. Ur in the meantime, this run is a great neighborhood go-to.

Sep. 02, 2019