More than likely it all came from a big kid or a big dog belonging to the people who use the park the most.

Can't blame everything on the one or two homeless people left in the area.

Boy that must have been some exciting morning at the jungle gym!

I go the the HP dog park twice a day; I've never gotten sick, but seem to when I visit my nieces and nephews.

But back to the subject at hand of someone crapping in the playground. This is why I believe residents shouldn't be allowed to own children or homeless people.

Children are petri-dishes.

@parkman - We appreciate all the hard work that you and all the folks at VVP put in.

@Yvonne - I think children can pick up as many diseases riding the PATH and going through the train stations as they would from playing in the park. Also, NYC does not prohibit dogs in parks. As a matter of fact, NYC DPR has a whole website dedicated to dogs Dogs in New York City Parks

Dogs disease can be passed to humans.
http://www.seattlepi.com/default/arti ... ans-vets-warn-1169743.php

Yorkster - Yvonne is not being a bit extreme. Children and ohter pets alike can very well pick up diseases from dog crap in the park. If the dog has worms it is easily transferred to child by playing in the grass or just touching the grass. Worms will penetrate the skin or whatever part of the body touches the infected grass. Unfortunately the slobs that don't pick up ruin it for those who care about the park and put their energy into it. It's not extreme is mere truth.

Come on...that's a bit extreme. I have a 2 year old, so are you telling me that I can never own a dog because they'll catch some disease? That's absurd. I don't have a dog now but my parents had one all my life and have made it through my childhood without catching any diseases.

Do your child a favor and get him/her out of the sterile bubble you have them living in and maybe then they can build an immune system.

It is common for dog owners to exercise their dogs in the early morning hours at the playground. I've seen and head it many times. While I have always lived on the park for many decades, I never allowed my children to use this park. For the price of the PATH I took them to parks in NY which does not allow dogs. Children can pick up all kinds of diseases from dog crap. Van Vorst Park is just a dog's latrine. Parents who are concerned about their children's innoculations should be more concerned about what their children are exposed to in this park.

Parkman, we appreciate your efforts. I'd like to get more involved with helping out, in some capacity, some day. It's amazing how some people just don't give a damn. It's most likely people who don't live in the neighborhood.

VVP is a great asset to the dtjc area. Parkman and others put in a lot of time/money to making it as nice as it is. I'd put it up against Gramercy Park anyday.

The vast majority of park visitors are fairly respectful of the rules. There is a small percentage who are a bit entitled and figure no one will call them on their behavior - those who don't pick up their trash/dog litter, let kiddies pull flowers etc. There is an even smaller percentage of crazies who do things like crap in the playground (not sure there's any hope changing their ways).

The entitled set won't change their ways without penalties for their transgressions. I'm sure it's a long shot to think a beat cop would ever regularly wander thru VVP, but that's the only solution unless there is some sort of neighborhood watch in the park 24/7. It's the same problem we have with all the maniac drivers. Because there is no consistent traffic enforcement (costly tickets) they continue to drive in an unsafe fashion.

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once it's consistently warm at night i'll do my trek to the park and back with my dog like i did last summer.

Obviously a bum pooped in the playground. In HP I see kids constantly snapping branches off trees and pulling up flowers in plain sight of their parents. My wife scolded just such a kid the other day. We also get basketball games at all hours of the night and rampant trashing of the area around the court. I am glad that dog walkers are out at all hours here because it adds a huge measure of safety.

I?m amazed at the crap (literally) that we have to put up with in VVP, despite all the efforts we make. As offensive as is was to pick up someone else?s shit yesterday morning, right after my breakfast I might add, it?s just as frustrating to see someone in a suit have their lunch in the park, and throw the wrappers on the ground instead of walking 5? to put it in the garbage can. How about dog owners who let their dogs urinate on the flowers, don?t pick after their pets, stay in the run after 10:00pm, or endanger their dogs and others by not keeping them on a leash? Kids from PS3 decorate the picnic tables with what looks like a men?s room in a hormonal free-for-all dorm. We plant unique varieties of plants (paid for out of our own pockets) and as they bloom, someone steals the flower?do we give up, not bother?

I have trouble believing that this is a necessary consequence of living in an urban environment?what happened to respecting where you live and taking pride in something special?

Some people make it very difficult to keep putting up with all of this.

Back to the original post, the person responsible for that has obvious problems but the others above have a rational choice to change their behavior and be aware of their actions.

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if the helicopters were from Seal Team 6, you wouldn't hear them though

Bum poo.

that area needs to be better lit at night or get seal team 6 on the job. There are some real idiots that hang around overnight...

Perhaps this explains the helicopters hovering over the VVP area right now...

I was at the park the other day and was told by a few moms that earlier that morning a child found a huge turd on top of the jungle gym as well as urine in the lion tunnel. This wasn't an accidental poop that fell out of a child's diaper as the mom who saw it said it was too big to have come from a little kid.

Ironically, I think i posted a few years ago about my kid getting poop on the slide at vvp but I convinced myself that it must have been a diaper accident. Anyway, just wanted to let the community here to know about this in case it becomes a recurring event. It really bothers me that someone can be such an a-hole and would do something like this to a playground.

Props to the people who were cleaning up the park. They cleaned the mess immediately.