Cultists of The Old Ones Submit Petition to Ice-Skating Center

Change may be coming to the LeFrak Ice-Skating Center next year, if a local group of ice-god worshipping cultists have their way.

Cultists of the Old Ice Lord Ithaqua have submitted a petition to the Prospect Park Alliance asking the park to discontinue the use of Ithaqua’s Eternally Frozen Tomb as the outdoor portion of the LeFrak Ice-Skating Center.

Liam Johansen, president of the Brooklyn Friends of Ithaqua, submitted the petition on Wednesday.

“We feel that we should have been consulted when the LeFrak Center was designed,” said Johansen, “We’re glad that families are able to enjoy winter activities on the Old One’s tomb, but the needs of the Ithaqua-worshipping community were not taken into consideration. We have noon-tide sacrifices, we have blood-moon sacrifices, we have winter solstice sacrifices, and none of these can be comfortably performed in the midst of small children skating and Justin Timberlake playing on the Skate Center’s audio system.”

The wide circle of preternaturally cold stone has sat near the eastern shore of the Prospect Park Lake for as long as anyone can remember, but it’s only been since 2013 that visitors to the LeFrak Center have been invited to skate on it.

“Space, particularly recreational green space, is very hard to come by in New York City,” said Leena Karvonen, Assistant Director of Mytho-Religious Community Relations, “It only makes sense that a flat and hauntingly chilled surface would be used for multiple purposes. We’re confident we’ll be able to reach a compromise with the Brooklyn Friends of Ithaqua, so that everyone can enjoy the area.”