The rock pillars spanning the length of the heavily traveled Mosholu Parkway provide character to the leafy roadways. But the pillars have gone without rehab or renovations since the late 1970s, and it’s beginning to show.

The pillars have been a long-standing issue, made even more problematic since some pose a safety hazard, according to Barbara Stronczer, who doubles as president of the Bedford Mosholu Community Association and chairs Community Board 7’s Parks Committee. “You notice the deterioration of the columns. Take a look at the bottom of those pillars. I’m concerned someone is going to get hurt,” she said.

The pillars are interconnected via metal piping with a concrete foundation. They run along both sides of the parkway’s southern tip, feeding into Southern Boulevard. Besides the normal wear and tear, cracks and discoloration, some pillars have huge chunks of rock missing from its base, creating gaping holes and jagged edges.

“They’re dangerous for the kids,” said Marilyn Villamar, a resident and owner of a local daycare center in Bedford Park. Villamar thinks it’s imperative to fix these pillars not only “because they should just maintain it, but it’s more cost-effective to fix them than let it get to this point.”

Conversely, the cost of repair is pricey. To replace just one of these pillars roughly comes to $36,000, and according to Stronczer she approximates that 10 to 12 of these pillars, differing in severity, need some form of renovation.

Stronczer was hoping to see the funding listed in Councilman Andrew Cohen’s participatory budgeting proposal, but it was not listed. CB7 district manager Andrew Sandler said at a recent parks committee meeting that he would like to lump the request with a larger request to fix the aging parkway.

A spokesman for the New York City Department of Parks said a capital project to restore the pillars is not planned or funded at this time.