{"id":187688,"date":"2026-04-06T22:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187688\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:10:30","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-kids-play-on-melted-playground-in-coney-island-more-than-18-months-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187688\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Kids play on melted playground in Coney Island more than 18 months after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beloved playground in Coney Island is still in pieces after a <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/coney-island-community-playground-burns-in-a-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire melted it more than a year ago.<\/a> Now, many parents and children are wondering when repairs are coming to the park.<\/p>\n<p>A fire destroyed Asser Levy Park Playground in September of 2024. News 12 cameras were at the park this past December, assessing the damage.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Parks Department told News 12 that a contractor was chosen back in October and repairs would be completed by the spring. Now, four months after December, the park looks the same as it did then.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to see them fix this park,&#8221; one grandfather told News 12. &#8220;We all use it. We live around here, our grandkids and our kids grow up here. And it&#8217;s a shame that they left the park this way and it&#8217;s not being utilized the right way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>City council member Inna Verikov, who represents the district, wrote in part, &#8220;In our most recent meeting with Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Marty Maher, the completion was estimated to take place this Summer. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>She also recently met with Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura.<\/p>\n<p>News 12 reached out to the Parks Department for more information but has not heard back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beloved playground in Coney Island is still in pieces after a fire melted it more than a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,119,33165,9,24,63,22458,10649,3580],"class_list":{"0":"post-187688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-coney-island","12":"tag-inna-vernikov","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-parks","17":"tag-parks","18":"tag-playground"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}