Brookhaven Park

Lots of grass and an oddly shaped park. I take my cousins to play volley ball or basketball all the time. Some of the drivers are reckless so watch out if you have kids.

Hello Unilocalers, this park is small and a little noisy being right next to freeway. The one thing I enjoyed is convenience and being able to run into neighbors. If you just want to shoots a few hoops or have a small picnic this is the place to go. Have fun!!!

Small and out of the way. A picnic table, bball hoop and volleyball net. I love coming here on Sunday afternoons for bbqs and bball.

This park scared the bejeeus out of me when I was a kid.
Back in the late 80’s, there were news reports about drive-​by shootings in all parts of LA. It was made to seem like an epidemic back then with the ills of the world and the problem of that time’s society.
That was a problem with many of our parents back then regarding this park. Brookhaven park is a small park that only have a small playground sandlot and half of a basketball court. It was the closest park nearby my house back then where me and my pals would biked to this park that is only a few blocks away from our houses.
We could have shoot game of HORSES or play a small 2 on 2 basketball game as it’s only half a court. You can have a picnic here by just bringing your own blanket in this nice grassy park with a very small playground for the kids to play slide or merry go-​around.
The bad part about this whole park was that it was isolated. There was a big wall on one side and the park’s dimensions was wide and very short on length. It mean that the street is less than 40 yards away from the basketball court and playground.
It was often unfairly called «Drive-​By Park» because anyone can just drive by and there would be no where to hide or take cover for the people in that park as there’s a wall prevent anything from happening with an escape.
Seriously, nothing had happened in that nature. There was always lousy rumors of something awful happened in that park, but I think it just get the shaft because of people wanting to believe the worse with no evidence or reports of anything going on here.
I still have fond memories of coming here for a quick game of basketball. Believe me, because of the lousy news reports of possible violence, we always are the lookout for cars driving by. Even worse, we are usually out of there within 40 minutes.
After all this time, that park is one the least utilized and would have made a great picnic ground as it looked to be a top secret hangout because no one knows there’s a park here.