Controversy Splits Bay Ridge Over "Dust Bowl" Renaming Competition

Some Brooklyn residents are squawking over plans to rename "The Dust Bowl," a recently renovated athletic field in Bay Ridge, to either "Quaker Parrot Park" or "The Parrot Bowl, which have been the most popular entries in City Councilmember Vincent Gentile's "Rename The Dust Bowl" competition.

Obviously, I'm biased, because I think it's high time that Brooklyn's intrepid parrots get some formal recognition from the City. So I was asked to write an Op Ed article for the Brooklyn Courier which you can read here.

You can weigh in yourself on whether to keep the old "Dust Bowl" name, which, to my mind, commemorates the tragedy of the Great Depression more than it does the current condition of the ball field, or whether to give the parrots their due by visiting this link.