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Stay Cool in the Summer with Staten Island Park's Sprinklers

By Nicholas Rizzi | July 15, 2013 7:24am
 Staten Island has 21 parks with open sprinklers for kids to get a break from the heat over the summer.
Staten Island Spray Showers
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STATEN ISLAND — On a scorching hot day, Staten Island parents turn to spray showers in public parks to cool down their kids.

"It's very refreshing," said Lorrain Litman, who took her granddaughter Abigail Litman, 3, to the sprinklers at Clove Lakes Park. "It's very enjoyable."

While damages from Hurricane Sandy closed the large spray showers at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach, Seaside Wildlife Nature Park, and the one at Midland Playground, 21 other parks across the borough have spots for kids to get a break from the summer heat.

For Tina Watson, 56, who takes her granddaughter Alecia Watson, 5, to the spray showers at the Old Town Playground, said the park isn’t just a good place to cool down in the summer, but a place for the neighborhood kids to meet over the summer.

“We all get together, it’s nice,” she said. “We get to see each other over the summer.”

Watson, who has lived in South Beach her whole life, said the younger children who can’t swim in the public pool in the park can keep cool in the sprinklers, and also play on the slides and swings right next to it.

“It’s a good place,” she said. “Especially for the little ones that can’t go in the pool.”

Here’s a list of the open spray showers this summer across the borough:

Cloves Lake Park, Forest Avenue and Victory Boulevard

Old Town Playground, Parkinson Avenue and Kramer Street

Long Pond Park, Page Avenue, Hylan Boulevard and Amboy Road

De Matti Playground, Tompkins Avenue, between Chestnut Street and Shaughnessy Lane

Dongan Playground, Mason Avenue, between Buel and Dongan Hills avenues

Dugan Playground, Mill Road to Weed Avenue

Greencroft Playground, Greencroft Avenue, between Ainsworth and Redgrave avenues

Jennifer’s Playground, Jules Drive, Elson Court and Regis Drive

Lt. Lia Playground, Wall Street, between St. Marks and Belmont places

Lopez Playground, Palma Drive, between Targee Street and Oder Avenue

Gen. Douglas Macarthur Park, Dongan Hills Avenue and Jefferson Street

Mahoney Playground, Beechwood Avenue, Jersey Street and Crescent Avenue

Markham Playground, Willowbrook Parkway, Forest Avenue to Houston Street

McDonald Playground, Forest Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, Broadway and N. Burger Avenue

Prescott Playground, Edith Avenue and Irvington Street

Schmul Park, Wild Avenue

Silver Lake Park, Victory Boulevard, Clove Road and Forest Avenue

Skyline Playground, Prospect Avenue, between Harvard Avenue and Cylde Place

Toad Hall Playground, Schmidts Lane, Manor Road and Laguardia Avenue

White Playground, High Street, Lyman Avenue, Bay Street and Summer Street

Wolfes Pond Park, Holton Avenue