Riverhead’s skate park at Stotzky Park is closed again after repeated incidents of vandalism took place during repair work, according to town parks and recreation superintendent Ray Coyne.
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More than 2,000 people have signed an online petition to save the town skate park at Stotzky Memorial Park, an effort started by a 15-year-old Riverhead teen.
Town officials are tweaking repair work plans at Stotzky Memorial Park in Riverhead.
Instead of finishing renovation work currently underway at the skate park, the town has decided to add a pickleball court, according to town recreation department superintendent Ray Coyne. READ
Spending more than $55,000 to fix up a skate park may sound like too much money to some people. Let’s face it, that’s a lot of dough.
Despite its being labeled a “Band Aid” approach by one official, the Riverhead Town Board on Tuesday agreed to allocate another $27,000 to fix its long-shuttered skate park at Stotzky Park, which has been closed for more than a year because it’s considered unsafe.
It was sad news last month when we heard out of Town Hall that a $50,000 upgrade to the town’s dilapidated skate park would be put on the back burner because the recreation department couldn’t afford it in the face of other priorities.