We return to the issue of people smoking in playground courtesy of an email that a reader forwarded to us from the Park Slope Parents list, where the issue erupts from time to time. This time the question is about the Harmony Playground near Ninth Street in Prospect Park and the smokers are Parks Department employees. Here’s the email:

Every time I’ve been at the Harmony playground on the weekend recently, I’ve seen parks employees smoking in the playground. I have politely asked the workers to stop smoking there, and they go outside the fences to finish their smokes–but the same people are doing it again the next day, inside the playground. I called 311 about it, but was told by the operator that it is not prohibited to smoke in NYC’s playgrounds. There’s a sign clearly stating that it isn’t allowed, but 311 didn’t know how to handle the complaint…I’m tired of my kid having to breathe smoke in a space that’s supposed to be for him.

The writer wants to know if anyone has had success complaining to the city about playground smoking.