A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in a crowded park playground in Brooklyn yesterday in what witnesses called a dispute with a man who asked him for a paper to roll a marijuana cigarette.

To David DeLucia, the sights and sounds of children at play in a park playground are the ultimate payoff in his job as a landscape architect in the county's Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation.

Perhaps later, if you want, we can go to the park playground.

But this park playground is not entirely as harmless as it looks, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit watchdog group based in Manhattan.

Three sets of arched windows overlook a park playground.

Ricki Stern, 33, a documentary filmmaker, was in the park playground at 110th Street with Cole, her 5-month-old son, and Kira, her 3-year-old daughter, when the spraying began.

The thin voices of little kids in the park playground and bigger kids playing baseball drifted in.

There seemed hardly time for anyone to wander off, but wander she had, and she had come to swinging happily on a swing in the park playground.

Jordan Park - bowerys, picnic tables, fireplaces, sand volleyball, tennis, horseshoes, baseball field, International Peace Garden, off-leash area, skate park, ADA playgrounds and ADA restrooms.

The company is paying $135,000 for the privilege, as well as supplying and maintaining boards in park playgrounds adjacent to schools for a two-year period.