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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I drove by Hearst yesterday at 4PM while driving between one kids Little League game at very crowded Rose Park in Georgetown on our way to very crowded Friendship (Turtle Park) for another Little League game and the only person in Hearst Park at 4PM on a beautiful fall day was a single woman with her dog running illegally off leash.

Not a single person was playing tennis.

Not a single person was playing soccer.

As is always the case Hearst ES was brimming with activity - there was a soccer game on the turf field, a pick-up basketball game being played and the playground was full of kids.

But nothing going on in the vibrant over-programmed Hearst Park.[/quote]

This account seems a little B.S.-y, excuse me.  37th St, which lies east of Wisconsin Ave. isn't exactly the most direct way from Georgetown to Turtle Park, which is west of Wisconsin.  That would be Wisconsin itself.  And the only way to see into Hearst Park, especially the tennis courts, would be to practically circle the southern end of the park, heading west on Rodman, then SW on Idaho, then west on Quebec, and north on 37th.  A bit of a detour, if you were hurrying from one ("very crowded") baseball game to another.

I was at Hearst yesterday, and it was being enjoyed by a lot of users.[/quote]

Correction: I was there on Saturday and a lot of users were at Hearst.  Sunday, not so much, because the weather was kind of a washout.[/quote]

I was there on Saturday in between stops and two other DPR facilities that were bursting at the seams with people - not a thing going on at Hearst.  I will add that the none of the tennis courts were being used at Rose and only one of the two courts was in use at Turtle Park so the problem of under utilized tennis courts is not limited to Hearst.[/quote]

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