Broadway Park

Yo dawg, I was watching a basketball game and then out of nowhere a kid gets punched in the face. And then dawg, the kid turned around and *BAM* got punched by some other guy. And then the kid ran away. It was crazy dawg. And the people here thing they’re sooooooo good but they’re really not. The park in front of Elmhurst Hospital is better.

i’ve lost more things at the YMCA.

Over the years this was once a park that was safe for all, but now it’s for. um…everything else.
I’ve seen this park slowly change from what it once was, to what it is in the course of 20 yrs. It’s been quite a while indeed, sad to say, this park just isn’t the same… especially in the last 6 years alone where fights and theft are as common as getting a hard foul or a bad call on the handball courts or basketball courts.
You know it’s bad when even the geeky volleyball crew don’t even swing by there as much as they used to. And they don’t.
I say the safest time to go with your kids, are daylight hours… primarly after school, between 2 to 4:30 or 5 at most.
Even the children’s side of the park is tainted by the dirt that accumalated over the years.
God save this once public place.

This Park is Ghetto… Lets start by saying «Ghetto» is a nice way of putting it.
The park is filled with the homeless. They have drunken fights amongst themselves halfway through the day over whatever alchohol is left that they pooled all their change together to get.
Sometimes you will see normal stuff in this park. kids playing… elderly people from the area doing tai-​chi in the mornings.
After dark this place can be crazy. You might spot 15 – 20 kids from the age range of 8 – 10 years old running around at 130am without parents just playing like its all good… next to some gang members and police everywhere. Its bananas.
I have seen gang wars go on in the handball courts/​basketball courts.
Drugs all over here at this park also… I smell bud in the air all the time

This park is right across from Hong Kong Supermarket in Elmhurst. It is right next to the Elmhurst Avenue Station which makes it accessible.
Activities in this park include: handball, chess, chinese chess, basketball, swings, workout, and jungle gym.
In all reality, this park is terrible in both its attendees and the sanitary conditions itself. The park is littered with trash with a stench that is both unknown and hideous. For the little children who go on the slides, it is sad, the slides make the pants turn dark because it’s that dirty. The handball courts has an infinite amount of bottles scattered like gum on the floor. Flies become attracted to the sweets of the bottle and they grow very large in size due to it.
As for the crowd, it’s dangerous. Large groups of hispanic gangs are situated in the park and believe me, many of them are criminals, at times they have fights in HUGE groups, groups ranging from 50 – 100. Thievery of bags, phones, and any personal belongings are common so dont bring expensive stuff. Please, dont risk your life coming here, it’s a horrible place to bring your children and to relax, AVOID!