Closing Bell: Curb Cuts for the Stroller Mafia?
While we’ve been known to disapprove of brownstone curb cuts for front-yard parking purposes, it struck us yesterday that the curb areas at the cross-walks on the Fort Greene Park side of Dekalb could really use some attention. It’s one thing to get your stroller up over the curb, another to then have your wheels…
While we’ve been known to disapprove of brownstone curb cuts for front-yard parking purposes, it struck us yesterday that the curb areas at the cross-walks on the Fort Greene Park side of Dekalb could really use some attention. It’s one thing to get your stroller up over the curb, another to then have your wheels get stuck in the bBelgian bricks blocks.
It is amazing how stupid people are – the anti-stroller crowd is a prime example of this.
Do you know F^cking annoying it would be if all those kids (with 10 inch legs) got out of their strollers and started walking?? Walking down the sidewalk would be like walking behind a tour group from Iowa, except slower.
Strollers are actually Gods gift to the pedestrian
It’s amazing how people with ZERO experience being disabled or caring for a baby 24/7 nonetheless have so much expert advice on the subject. All those whiny disabled people and parents must be full of crap, while 1:27 is a sole and pure font of wisdom.
I invite 1:27 to carry a 15 pound sack of gravel around after waking 3x a night for a couple weeks. Then I invite him to break his own foot (aw heck, I’ll break it for him!) and enjoy the constant extra strolling at 1/3 speed to find a safe way to cross the street. THEN, my 1:27 friend, I’d like to hear your honest, informed perspective. Do I hear a whining sound?
9:45, being raised on the Upper West Side (as I’m assuming you were), you’re about as “real” a New Yorker as someone from Westchester you spoiled, overindulged, pampered pussy.
There’s a curb at south portland and at Washington Place. How many curbs do you need — and I mean that for both leg-able and leg-disabled people. Can’t you wait one block before crossing? Do you really have to cross every 80 feet? Cause when you’re walking along a longer street, you do in fact have to walk for a thousand feet before crossing — doesn’t seem to kill anyone.
As far as the baby pushers. Irksome thing, that stroller invention. Like I always say, try this rule of thumb for the betterment of all civilization: if the kid’s too small to be walking on his own, carry it — does wonders for the child’s psychological peace of mind, as well as for the rest of the world’s. When the kid gets too big to be carried, that’s your cue to get it to walk — does wonders for the kid’s physical well-being, as well as for ours.
Nature – such a simple, marvelous mechanism. Why are we always trying to convenience ourselves to death?
Cheers, 9:45.
The whole block is a hazard to the entire community. There are huge potholes and dangerous obstructions on Dekalb.
Strange how this was made into another stroller debate. The whole park side of Dekalb is a freakin mess. It is totally possible for the city to install curb cuts (as required by federal law) while preserving these type of cobblestones.
Anyone remember the condition of Central Park West in the 80s vs. how it looks now?
Probably not, since most of you fake, wannabe New Yorkers moved here around 1997. If you didn’t spend your childhood in the 5 boroughs, you are a tourist. Enjoy your bus ride home to Pennsyltucky when it just gets ‘too tough’ for you to stay here.
It is one of the ironies of parenthood that my baby and I are often competing with disabled people for scarce resources. On the plus side, it has definitely raised my awareness about how hard it is to be disabled in NYC.
Shake the banners!
Ban the Shakers!