Thursday Links
Summer Overtakes Spring; Confusion Reigns [NY Times] City Orders End to Illegal Homeless Housing [NY Times] What You Get for… $350,000 [NY Times] Parents Urge Removal of ‘Dangerous’ Domes [NY Daily News] Assembly Willing to Get Wet for Google [NY Daily News] First Suicide at Brooklyn’s Tallest Building [Brooklyn Paper] Williamsburg Dead Last in Census…
Summer Overtakes Spring; Confusion Reigns [NY Times]
City Orders End to Illegal Homeless Housing [NY Times]
What You Get for… $350,000 [NY Times]
Parents Urge Removal of ‘Dangerous’ Domes [NY Daily News]
Assembly Willing to Get Wet for Google [NY Daily News]
First Suicide at Brooklyn’s Tallest Building [Brooklyn Paper]
Williamsburg Dead Last in Census Returns [Gothamist]
Photo by peffs
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What happened to see saws and monkey bars and those flat hard swings that one kid can sit on and one can stand up facing them and they swing together.
a combination of a society hell bent on frivolous litigation and a culture of coddling ones precious little snowflakes.
*rob*
The metal domes are not unique to BH. Check out the new playground in Union Square. It’s just the latest concept in kids’ playground. They have similar equipment in new playgrounds in the UK.
Anyway, playgrounds are dangerous, but not as much as multi-story parking garages and abandoned buildings, which is where we played when I was a kid.
“Both groups seem to feel entitled and therein lies the downfall of society.”
Dave – it’s way too early for your excessive cane wagging. I haven’t even had my first cup of $5 iced coffee yet.
benson, don’t you have painting to do???
Yes, everyone should be like me. I’m taking off the whole week to paint my house.
Stick to your knitting, America!!
good thing i’m an obnoxious yuppie!!
If more people focused their energy on doing things like yardwork and less of it on doing “hipster things” this would be a better country and China wouldn’t be gaining on us interms of the global economy.
Both groups seem to feel entitled and therein lies the downfall of society.
By Joe from Brooklyn on April 8, 2010 9:15 AM
“Yardwork is such a suburban activity.”
So is being a hipster.
Touche’!!
“Yardwork is such a suburban activity.”
So is being a hipster.