By DAVID GREENE
This week we asked readers along Mosholu Parkway their thoughts on the illegal barbecuing sightings happening along the parkway and whether they support a legally designated spot in Norwood.
When they are barbecuing, it doesn’t smell very good inside the apartment. You know what I mean? They leave the garbage there sometimes and that brings the rats. It brings a lot of bad things, a lot of problems. They have other places to barbecue. This is not the place.
Julio Pacheco
We don’t want any barbecuing here. They come, they leave a mess, and they don’t pick up after themselves. This is our park and they don’t live around here because they come by car. I have seen it so many times. They shouldn’t allow any barbecuing anywhere around here because the trees are here.
Florance Staley
Barbecuing is against the law. Mosholu Parkway is a parkway, not a park, and it is a part of the greenway. So if you want to barbecue, you need to go to Van Cortlandt Park where they have two different designated areas to barbecue. When you barbecue here you damage the roots of the trees, you damage the bark and damage the leaves. So all of this affects the health of the land. That’s why we are against it.
Sheila Sanchez
I don’t see anything wrong with barbecuing and if they make a spot, they should do it right here on East 205th Street.
Pete Hamilton
The smoke comes right into my apartment and I don’t want to smell someone else’s food. It’s not right. Barbecuing should not be allowed in a residential area.
Brenda Taylor
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Barbecuing has become a huge issue in the Gun Hill meadow of Van Cortlandt Park. Every weekend there are dozens of open flames in the park under trees. The smoke can be smelled blocks away. There is also unpermitted amplified music that is played for hours after the park’s posted 10pm closing. On Monday mornings the park looks like a garbage dump.
How come minorities refuse to obey the law? There are signs posted that clearly say no barbequing. And yet time and time again – not just on Mosholu Pkway, but also Bronx Park East and like Cynthia mentioned, Gun Hill meadow, these people continue to blatantly break the damn law as though they are above it.
I don’t understand this at all.
And I don’t understand why the cops don’t grow a set of balls, ticket everyone involved and confiscate the barbeques and charcoal. What is everyone so damn AFRAID of????