New York City’s first skate park received some much needed spring cleaning. Hundreds of Bronx families and children rolled up their sleeves to help restore Mullaly Bike Park to its former glory on Saturday, May 21 as part of a citywide ‘It’s My Park’ effort to revitalize neighborhood parks across the five boroughs. Hosted by City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks, volunteers from the Mullaly Bike Park group helped paint existing skate ramps, constructed brand new ramps and tidied up the skating grounds and surrounding areas.
(Above) Volunteers Rusbel Jimenez (l) and John Mullaly painted the NYC Parks logo on the bike ramp’s wall.Photo by Laura Stone

(l-r) NYC Parks’ Robert Ramos helped volunteers Rusbel Jimenez, John Mullaly and Dian Hawkins clean up after they finished painting NYC Parks logos on the park’s bike ramps.
Photo by Laura Stone

Bikers who use the park posed in front of the freshly painted NYC Parks logo with volunteers Dian Hawkins (3rd row, 3rd from l); Robert Ramos (3rd row from top, 4th from l); Jim Dellavalle of Dellavalle Designs (3rd row, with kids); Karrim Dyson (1st row, 4th from l) and Brendan Vail (1st row, 2nd on r), Mullaly SkatePark Inc. coordinator.
Photo by Laura Stone

(l-r) Beth Bingham from New Yorkers for Parks; Anthony Martinez, Ismael Guzman and Leah Worrell from Partnership for Parks and Heather Lubov, City Parks Foundation executive director.
Photo by Laura Stone

Volunteers Rusbel Jimenez (l) and John Mullaly painted the NYC Parks logo on the bike ramp’s wall.
Photo by Silvio Pacifico