With Angelo Scaccia losing power to block its demolition, the DCR removed what was once a state-of-the-art playground for children with disabilities, but in the decades since its closure, it has been largely abandoned by locals. It turned into a bunker that people use. Graffiti His artist highlights his skills, drug addict shoots like Jake. discovered Take a walk on the Stoneybrook Reservation today.
A community group of dog owners once raised funds for a plan to transform the feces-strewn Thompson Center into a state-of-the-art dog park, but in 2017 there is no dog park. Angelo Scaccia blocked the plan, citing a 1967 law mandating that the Thompson Center be available only to children with disabilities. Children like that.
Scaccia retired in 2000.
While the site may at first appear to offer new parking for those looking to explore the 475 acres of Stony Brook Woods, it turns out that large boulders and odd logs fill up parking spaces within the reservation. It would prove against the DCR’s decades-old policy of lockdown.
