Friday Links
City To Go Easier on Art Vendors in Parks [NY Times] Deal to Save Student Transit Discounts Is Near [NY Times] The Diversity of Coney Island’s Surf Avenue [NY Times] City’s Unemployment Rate Falls for Fifth Month [NY Times] Metal Domes Removed from Brooklyn Bridge Park After Burn [NY Post] Markowitz Sued Over Coney Island…
City To Go Easier on Art Vendors in Parks [NY Times]
Deal to Save Student Transit Discounts Is Near [NY Times]
The Diversity of Coney Island’s Surf Avenue [NY Times]
City’s Unemployment Rate Falls for Fifth Month [NY Times]
Metal Domes Removed from Brooklyn Bridge Park After Burn [NY Post]
Markowitz Sued Over Coney Island Concert Series [NY Post]
Parking Lot Turned into Paradise in Bensonhurst [Brooklyn Eagle]
Respected Urban Planner Knocks Atlantic Yards [AY Report]
Cops Hunting for Carroll Gardens Sexual Assaulter [NY1]
Photo by PamHutch
I don’t understand it. Not long ago, a child was burnt on these same domes. Did the people overseeing this park think the domes were going to be COOLER in the heat of the summer?
(as for the broken glass alternative, well, they probably considered it but decided the aesthetics were too modern)
As for the Markowitz gala series, perhaps he should consider moving it closer to HIS home so all of his new neighbors could enjoy it.
I guess if Justice Sotomayor can talk about a wise Latina woman, Marty can accuse Jewish synagogues…
“9.6 percent from 9.8 percent…10.5 percent at the end of 2009.”
ROTFLMMFAO! One sig fig still has it at 10, the rate it was between 1930 and 1931, the same time after the crash of 1929! Right on schedule to rival the Great Depression.
Get out of the markets, sell your houses and get into cash, DIBS!!! Massive deflationary spiral coming your way.
***Bid half off peak comps***
Arkady, they had to remove the other one, too, for the same reason! We should all be incensed that someone who designs playgrounds with our tax dollars seems to have zero understanding of children’s behavior. Children touch hot things because, you know, they’re CHILDREN. They lack understanding of these things. Why does a dome have to be metal? There are no other substances with which to make a play dome? Was his first idea to cover it with broken glass?
No, CG, but it does make it less egregious that they were installed at BBP since they were seemingly o.k. elsewhere.
LOL, Dave. Am I feisteir than usual? Dunno. Yesterday was hellish, so I’m very glad it’s Friday.
Arcaty, that they are ubiquitous makes them no less moronic.
Those domes are standard playground equipment now – used in several other NYC playgrounds & in other states too.
CatGar – Maybe it’s just a typo that omitted the adjective “cold”.
I feel bad for the little girl who got burned. But how stupid did they have to be to install exposed metal domes and not foresee that they would get burning hot?? Morons.