Calvert Vaux Park

: looks at Yana B.: DOGS are never allowed off-​LEASH in this park! (not even before 9 am or after 9 pm)
This park is a sensitive wildlife area and habitat. All off-​leash dogs pose a threat to birds, small mammals, and amphibians in this park.
Dogs are never allowed off-​leash in wild areas. They only areas where there are allowed off-​leash after hours are lawn areas. (In addition, dogs are never allowed in: playgrounds, ball fields, or on basketball, handball, or tennis courts. Dogs are never allowed on any beaches between May 1^st and Oct. 1^st.)
You should not allow your dogs to be off leash anywhere where wildlife would be disturbed, destroyed, killed, or frightened (ex. — birds, and birds nesting on the ground, etc.) Ground nesting birds need protection from dogs. Birds become used to sounds of machinery, children, etc., but they (with good reason) never become used to the stress of carnivores like dogs and cats.
It is illegal in New York to harass, disturb, threaten, etc. wildlife. This includes harassment by dogs.

Shambles. Don’t get fooled by the prominently displayed soccer, baseball and track fields. The park might look beautiful upfront, but once you reach its interior, its in shambles. Garbage here is rampant. I remember this used to be a condemned polluted park back in the 90s. The layout is confusing. Bags full of feces, rampant, trash o rama, concrete slabs, I noticed a porto potty that was toppled over, pretty nasty stuff. Grassy areas, open fields, a concrete lot smacked in the middle. Teens dipping their feet (which I wouldn’t recommend) into a small beach and throwing rocks, pretty much a park in shambles. This park has a lot of potential of becoming a great urban oasis. Parks and Rec need to take a look at this one, and hope they renovate and improve this potentially beautiful landscape. Calvert Vaux must be rolling in his grave.

Still an awesome park! Discovered secret paths toward the back of the park which is even more visually delicious and un-​city-​like. However, there are many hazardous «pathways» areas that have quicksand spots and toward the right-​round back countless used condoms plus litter reside. Go with someone or exercise tremendous caution in the more forested areas.

This is an amazing park that makes you feel like you have left NY and are out in the country. Although by the entrance it has beautiful soccer fields, batbrooms and a huge parking lot, if you venture out further beyond that you can find yourself in untouched fields of flowers, tree lined alleys or even on a virgin beach. The park is never crowded, especially during the day on weekdays. It is great to bring your dogs to and let them run around off the leash. Truly a nice place to explore and escape to.

this park has some nice fields for soccer and softball. There are at least 4 soccer fields, two of which are public turf fields, one grass field, and some private grass fields. There are two softball diamonds and one private baseball field. There is plenty of parking around the soccer fields and softball fields. people come here to sit on the grass, play soccer, softball, walk their dogs, and fish. However, beware the outer edges of the park as they are relatively undeveloped and somewhat dirty. so be careful. There’s always people here on the weekends that fly their toy helicopters.