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Nassau County Opens New Handicap-Accessible Playground, Ball Field at Eisenhower Park

The facilities are designed so that all children can play and have fun.

Nassau County announced it has completed construction on a new handicap-accessible playground and sports field at Eisenhower Park, located near the park entrance at Stewart and Merrick Avenues.

This playground is the second accessible playground installed in Eisenhower Park. The first, located at Field 4, opened in May 2012 in conjunction with Let All The Children Play (LATCP) – a Long Island-based not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives and dignity of all children by developing accessible playgrounds and inclusive recreation programs.

The new accessible ball field, opened in conjunction with the League of YES, has been designed not only for baseball, but for multiple sports and uses state of the art turf suitable for walkers, wheelchairs and other adaptive mobility devices and prosthetics. With the creation of the new field, the League of YES is now able to provide special needs baseball fans in Nassau County and beyond the opportunity to play the game they love.

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