Only today, Monday, August 17th, Bushwick Beach Bus is taking Bushwick and Williamsburg residents to New Jersey water park, Action Park. Known for taking us to the beach, Bushwick Beach Bus will be making stops at Pearl’s Social Club, Union Pool, Union Square, and Hoboken, NJ starting at 10 am.

The Vernon, New Jersey water park is known for bending the rules of ride construction to a criminal level. Earning the nicknames “Traction Park” or, my personal favorite, “Class Action Park” came easy for a place that had a water slide with a vertical loop for thirty days before being shut down after enough kids were knocked around. After 1996, the park switched owners, had a name change, and a year ago this summer was re-bought and refurbished by the owner’s son. Andy Mulvihill replaced the sign advertising the 35 acre park on April Fool’s Day 2014 to Action Park’s original 1978 one, causing passersbys to think of it as a masterful prank, there to pay homage to a former visionary’s sense of humor. Hint: IT SO WASN’T.

At Action Park, you have the possibility of standing one-hundred feet in the air and the next moment having a trapdoor beneath your feet drop you down a one-hundred foot slide.