With slabs of concrete leaving one giant mess, the collapse of an aging stone wall and staircase at the northeast side of Williamsbridge Oval has sparked plenty of speculation on just what caused it to cave. Yet from all the conjecture and guessing games, there haven’t been many clear cut answers, bewildering soccer players, dog walkers and parents of young children playing at the heavily used park.

As it stands, police have cordoned off the damaged concrete staircase leading to the park’s lower level. But the fallen yellow tape and tipped-over NYPD fences haven’t done much for park goers who walk down the damaged staircase at their own risk.

As the days wore on, a growing chorus of Norwood residents have demanded the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (DPR) fast track repairs to the brittle wall, pointing to other potentially troublesome spots around the park.

“It’s a safety hazard,” said Betty Arce, a neighbor and fellow member of Friends of the Williamsbridge Oval Park, a volunteer group working as an auxiliary force for the park. “If this doesn’t get fixed before the winter, it’s going to languish.” Her assumption on what happened: last week’s torrential rainstorm caused the wall to weaken, and later pushed mightily by young people.

Doug Condit, a fellow FOTWO member, pointed out other loosened slabs belonging around the west side of the wall, noting the issue isn’t isolated to the northeast side. “Why can’t [Parks] just do routine maintenance?” he asked.

Ralph Martell, walking his dog around the Oval, agreed with Condit. “That should’ve been taken care of, because it’s going to get worse and worse,” he said.

Others presumed that time may have caught up to the old staircase. “I remember walking up those stairs and sometimes I think one of the step-stones was loose,” said a Norwood mother of three. “Maybe it was just time before it all just crumbled.”

A DPR spokesperson said in a statement that the agency is “investigating remedial action to reopen the stairs,” and reminding park users that a “second set of stairs 25 feet away, can still be used.”

Williamsbridge Oval Park was built in 1937, repurposed from a massive reservoir that served as the borough’s partial drinking water supply.