Palmetto Playground

This is an awesome shortcut if you want to get to have a little walk off the beaten path of Brooklyn Bridge park. It is clean and pretty with random steel artsy statues. Men play basketball. Dog walkers, pedestrians, and all walks of life breeze in and out. It is great place to go if you have chess pieces and need a chess board. There are stone tables with chess boards on them. Nevertheless, it is small enough to be unnoticed and undiscovered by tourists and huge crowds. It is nice!

Brooklyn’s smallest dog run in a great area, but not even close to the best Brooklyn has to offer.
Things it has going for it:
— Has dedicated dog water fountain and a hose to cool/​wash off dogs
— Adequate seating
— Plenty of shade
Things it has against it:
— Too narrow and small
— No bathrooms for humans near run
— Crushed granite ground cover but bad drainage
— No poop bags, but has an empty dispenser for plastic shopping bags
— No separate large and small dog runs
— Several piles of dog poop
This is one of the smallest runs I have found so far in the city. Makes you kind of wonder why they bothered, especially with the Pier 6 Dog Run close by. I wouldn’t recommend this run for medium to large size dogs.
Dog runs/​parks I have been to so far:

Palmetto Playground is small but it’s my favorite dog park in the area. The gravel is good for tiring out pups but doesn’t get them dirty like mud would.
It’s also located right across from Wag Club so if you need any dog food or other items you can easily pick it up on your way out.

Great area!
I come out here every other weekend with my Golden Retriever Macie. They have a great dog run here. It used to have pink pebbles which turned all the little white dogs in the park pink, (pretty funny) but they redid the place. They changed the pink pebbles to regular pebbles with no color and they made it lower so now there is more seating. They have umbrellas for the owners and a water fountain for the dogs. This is def one of the better dog parks in bk since there inst much mud and ppl just seem friendlier here.
The view from the area is spectacular and around the corner from the dog park is a wine shop that always has free tastings!
This is a really great place for both you and your pooch to socialize. Haven’t had a chance to venture over to the park side yet but after reading the reviews ill be sure to stop by bark!
Only reason i gave this spot 4 stars is because since it is on the water it gets super windy over there and parking is pretty limited (there is a lot but its way pricey)

Just realized I never did follow-​up to this.
The city immediately secured that door so no other dog could escape and we’ve been back since with our new dog.
But… there’s a nicer, newer dog run down Atlantic that we go to more often now.

This is a review for the dog run.
The good:
— best crowd of dogs and dog owners in the area
The bad:
— the little entrance area! Not only are the doors not low enough to keep small dogs in, but the contraption that you have to turn to get in is always rusty or stuck or something. Really a pain.
— smelly gravel
— pretty small
That said, I will keep coming here because the important thing at a dog park is the dogs that show up.
To catch people on weekdays you want to go at one of 3 peak times:
1. 9:00am-ish right before lots of people go to work
2. noon-​ish when the dog walkers bring by the dogs they walk
3. 6:00pm-ish when people bring their dogs over after work.