{"id":344656,"date":"2026-09-12T03:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344656\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T03:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:08:51","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brighton-beach-parkgoers-take-to-social-media-to-get-grady-playground-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344656\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brighton Beach Parkgoers Take To Social Media To Get Grady Playground Fixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Young Brooklyn residents are taking to social media to call on the city to fix Grady Park in Brighton Beach.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Angel Perez and Shleimy Peralta say cracked pavement, old basketball rims and poor lighting are just some of the issues the park faces.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The video now has nearly 1,000,000 views, more than 200,000 likes and more than 2,000 comments.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI thought it was gonna get like 100 views max, but then like the next day I saw it and I started to like get so many views and likes. And I was like, like, no way,\u201d said Peralta.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Perez says parks are foundational for young people.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cNowadays, young people just, you know, want to hang in groups to do bad things, which I disagree with that, cause we&#8217;re going to eventually be the example for the next generation,\u201d said Perez.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIf we have some better parks, it could bring the communities together,\u201d said Peralta.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the NYC Parks Department, which says currently there are no projects scheduled for the playground. However, they said that that\u2019s the purpose of a new program called Renew Crew. The young men say they are going to report the issues there.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI definitely have hope that they\u2019re going to fix this park,\u201d said Perez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young Brooklyn residents are taking to social media to call on the city to fix Grady Park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-344656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344656","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=344656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}