Скачать или смотреть Toxic waste and The Bethpage Skatepark Story

This is Bethpage Community Park — or what’s left of it.

this story goes way deeper than broken coping and bad maintenance. It’s about how the Town of Oyster Bay used taxpayer bond money to build a skatepark on contaminated land — the same land Grumman buried toxic waste on decades ago.

The park stood for over a decade. Kids grew up skating here. Then in 2024, they found buried 55-gallon drums of chemicals under the old ballfields — and that was it. Gates locked. Park closed.

This video isn’t just about a park — it’s about how Long Island keeps missing the point. Central Nassau still doesn’t have a real skatepark, while Suffolk, Queens, and Brooklyn built parks that actually make sense.

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