Parks books Bushwick High on an unlit soccer field until 6 p.m. in December, 90 minutes after sunset
Eleven permit holders share Bushwick Playground's soccer field, the largest in the district, and its daylight is nearly booked. The Parks Department has issued 114 permits still to come that run past sunset on Bushwick's unlit fields.
Parks books Bushwick High on an unlit soccer field until 6 p.m. in December, 90 minutes after sunset
Eleven permit holders share Bushwick Playground's soccer field, the largest in the district, and its daylight is nearly booked. The Parks Department has issued 114 permits still to come that run past sunset on Bushwick's unlit fields.
Bushwick High School’s permit for Bushwick Playground’s soccer field runs 3 to 6 p.m. from September through March. On September 1, that ended about 90 minutes before sunset. In December it will end about 90 minutes after, on a field with no lights.
It is not the only one. As of November 6, the Parks Department’s schedule shows 114 permits still to come this fall and winter that run past sunset on Bushwick’s fields, 40 of them by more than an hour. None of Bushwick’s 54 active athletic facilities has lights.
The permit’s hours do not change. Sunset does. Graphic: Bushwick Daily
Bushwick field permits
The permit stays put. The sun does not.
Minutes of Bushwick High School's 3-to-6 p.m. permit that fall after sunset, mid-month. The field has no lights.
Source: NYC Parks season permit spreadsheets, NOAA solar formula for sunset.
The permit stays put. The sun does not.
Month
Minutes after sunset
Sept.
0
Oct.
0
Nov.
81
Dec.
91
Jan.
69
Feb.
31
March
8
There is little daylight to trade. Eleven groups hold permits this fall on Bushwick Playground’s soccer field, the largest in the district. From September 1 through November 30, permits cover 87 percent of its weekday hours between 3 p.m. and sunset and 95 percent of its weekend hours between 9 a.m. and sunset, and 41 of its 65 weekdays are full. Heckscher Playground’s soccer field is next among Bushwick’s main fields, at 73 percent on weekdays.
Across Bushwick’s fields, 219 of the 552 permits for September 1 through November 30 run past sunset, 164 by more than half an hour and 39 by more than an…
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