Calvert Vaux Park

If you want to play soccer, go here. Well maintained turff and grass fields, great lighting for night games, and netted goals for making your well aimed shots.

Very cool place! It's been cleaned up lately. Made more room to play sports.
Great place to spend a weekend with the family, not only to play ball, but also to enjoy the nature.

The park is named after famous landscape architect Calvert Vaux (co-designed Central and Prospect Parks along with Olmsted brothers firm). It was built partially on top of landfill debris excavated during construction of Verazzano bridge. Waterfront trails are major attraction of the park for me. You can see the hulls of shipwrecks left from the time when small shipyards dotted shores of Coney Island creek. The park is home to many athletic fields. One of the downsides my winter walk was sights of trash along the trails and shore paths. That’s typical of many other shore parks in NYC with high population density where large slice of urban population feels entitled to leave garbage after themselves. There is a large parking lot so parking is relatively easy in all seasons.

Dear City Park Management, WHAT DID YOU DO!?! Why did you have to cut so many perfectly healthy grown trees?!? I am literally crying looking at the previously gorgeous naturally picturesque park looking so bare now! The growing trash you could care a little about - it is still there piling up at the most scenic spots, but someone thought the trees got to go! I'm speechless. Those trees don't take a couple of years to grow they need decades to become real, strong, and healthy. I want to know WHY!?!
UPDATE a year later:
THEY CUT MORE TREES, THE GARBAGE IS STILL THERE.