Brownsville Brooklyn
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Don't know if it was a real "hill" but the local kids sure did. Mazel to all.
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anyone remember the old ski hill in Prospect Park?
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BeanoNYC
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No...but I've been eyeballing the old dump at Starrett City from the belt for a few years now. Looks like a great place to earn some turns.
ERJ-145CA
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It's not listed on the NELSAP site but there were other ski areas in NYC. Scroll down to this section: New York City, Extreme Southeastern NY, and Long Island (6) on this site: http://www.nelsap.org/ny/ny.html. Shalom.
Brownsville Brooklyn
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LI had the one in melville, the highest spot on LI, i was there once not for skiing. you can see the great south bay from that spot. LI's main hill was Knob Hill? out east? never was there either. i think its where the LI vets memorial is.
Brownsville Brooklyn
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where is your family from? brooklyn? its a bygone era. there were still working farms in brooklyn in the 1920s....
spring_mountain_high
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bald hill near patchogue...we knew it as the 'patchogue ski bowl'...you get a great view from there
jrmagic
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never saw the one in Prospect park but I do remember the rope tow in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx. My aunt needed reconstructive knee surgery after trying that one:-o She wasnt very coordinated athletically so it ut my only time ther very short lol.
Brownsville Brooklyn
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i was in the bronx a few weeks after black out 77....i remember row boating in prospect park as a boy with my father. sitting on my mothers knee telling me about her life in brownsville.
ta&idaho
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How steep are the hills in Van Cortland Park? I've been interested in finding a stretch of New York City parkland to hike and ski after a big snowstorm, and tomorrow might be the day...
funny i also think the same thing everytime i pass there.
Brownsville Brooklyn
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dood thats some pic of u skiing back in the day....i see why ur turns are so tight u have so much experience....how did my turns look to u that day u followed me over the holidays?
damn forgot about those pics. look at the "air". i was friggin ugly. that was probably late 70's at scotch valley/deer run in the catskills. long closed.
you were great. we were perfectly in sync. didn't want to leave that day. some nice pow on the edges.
Brownsville Brooklyn
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that pic is a classic. it should be on a ski house wall in k....was that the really cold day when we got a foot or so with wind? thanks for the compliments. i been using volkl karmas the last 3-4 seasons or so....
jrmagic
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Its not very steep from what I remember. There's a couple of sections of Mosholu golf course that are steep but short pitches. Not NYC but there is a hill on the backside of Yonkers Raceway that is pretty steep and high enough to crank a few turns on.
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Check out Riverside Drive/Riverside Park around 90th - 91st Street, just north of the Soldiers and Sailors monument. I grew up around there (moving when I was 11) and remember the hill north of the monument as a great hill for sledding. I haven't been back there in a gazillion years so my memory may be that of a kid, with the hill not being anywhere near as big as I thought it was back then.
ta&idaho
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That's a good suggestion -- thanks! Might go check it out this afternoon...
BeanoNYC
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I lived in Rockaway Park but just moved to Long Island.
I have it all planned out. If you park as far south as you can in front of Home Depot you can walk over the bridge over the Belt and hop the fence.
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ZYDECORICH
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i have old 8mm film of my mom and pops family sled riding in Van Cortland park on what looks like a pretty good hill. they look all red faced and wet. i have often thought of skiing the town landfill in East Hampton when i'm there in the winter.. lotsa garbage from all those summer folk... but something just wrong with that other than getting thrown in jail. maybe a gull attack.
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