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Please no more pickleball, this is the most accessible and fun place to rollerskate! I've been going here for years, the only keeping me through the winter was looking forward to rollerskaing in the spring/summer/fall.
Adora supported: Say NO to Pickleball and YES to Expanding Roller Skating at The LeFrak CenterSkating, whether roller or ice, is perhaps one of the most inclusive activities available in NYC, or anywhere else for that matter. It welcomes all ages, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, and religious groups more than any other sport. The fact that this amazing recreation/sport is in danger of being pushed aside for Pickleball only illustrates that the leadership of New York doesn’t truly support inclusiveness, despite constantly claiming to do so.
In my 10+ years visiting the Lefrak rink, I skated amongst the most diverse group of amazing people, many of whom are still a part of my life. This is also a place where my children would hone their skating skills. The possibility of the Lefrak rink being threatened, in whole or in part, is both heartbreaking and aggravating and will affect more people than we can truly know, as this petition can’t be spread around fast enough.
Scott supported: Say NO to Pickleball and YES to Expanding Roller Skating at The LeFrak CenterAs if there aren’t already enough places for the (disproportionately more affluent and white) adherents to the pickleball trend to play all over the city… meanwhile, LeFrak is one of the few places that people from all over Brooklyn and the 5 boroughs can easily and accessibly drop by for a fun and affordable place to skate — whether for children’s birthday parties, families looking for a fun day out or roller disco devotees expressing their artform in one is the only venues available to the public for skating. As a member of the Gotham Roller Derby community, I am also all too aware of the alarming predicament that our league, our skaters and fans of our sport have already found ourselves in by lacking affordable and alternative options to practice, hold matches and sustain our proud tradition of roller derby in NYC. Taking away our league’s access to basically our only feasible option for a venue in all of NYC just to appease the whims of those who have the privilege of vast choice of venues to enjoy the latest passing fitness fad means that those of us who have found community, belonging and incredible athletic opportunity through roller derby will risk almost certain disillusion of NYC’s trailblazing and only roller derby league. Considering our sport provides a powerful community and space of acceptance and inclusion that is so greatly lacking in so much of the rest of society, the loss of this refuge and source of empowerment would —especially now — represent a tremendous loss for not just our teammates but for the whole city. I urge the decision makers in this matter to not abandon the primary purpose for which LeFrak exists in the first place and actually listen to the skating community for whom this space is so critically important.
Kristin supported: Say NO to Pickleball and YES to Expanding Roller Skating at The LeFrak CenterYou’re not alone — a community of supporters is ready to back you.
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