Why is the soccer field at Roundtree Park covered with at least a hundred rocks? Park visitors had some ideas: Maybe it’s an alien landing strip, one person jokingly suggested. Or something to do with a mystical ceremony?
A nearby neighbor walking her dogs had an answer. She was at Roundtree Park on Dec. 30 and 31, when she saw an excavator and three trucks full of rocks on the field. Workers were placing the rocks about six feet from one another.
A worker told the dogwalker it’s a Park Authority project to prevent people from using the soccer field. He said the reason is because the players were leaving too much trash behind.
“It’s so upsetting,” the dog walker said. “I like to watch the children playing and having fun. Where are they going to go? This is exclusionary. This is a soccer-playing community.”
The baseball backstop, trash can, and bleachers have already been removed. With rocks all over the field, the Park Authority will no longer be able to mow it. Presumably, the field will be overgrown like the area near where the backstop used to be.
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