Wednesday Links
Thousands May Lose Section 8 Rental Vouchers [NY Times] City Fined Over Documents on Fatal Crane Collapse [NY Times] More Info About Fire at 360 Myrtle [NY Times] Developers See Possibility (and Value) in Old Steel [NY Times] Busy Chef and Blue Pig Fraudster Gets Probation [NY Post] Parents Fuming Over Park’s Hot Domes [NY…
Thousands May Lose Section 8 Rental Vouchers [NY Times]
City Fined Over Documents on Fatal Crane Collapse [NY Times]
More Info About Fire at 360 Myrtle [NY Times]
Developers See Possibility (and Value) in Old Steel [NY Times]
Busy Chef and Blue Pig Fraudster Gets Probation [NY Post]
Parents Fuming Over Park’s Hot Domes [NY Daily News]
Ten Arraigned in Brooklyn Mortgage Scam [Brooklyn Eagle]
Correction Vehicles Are Cramming Court Street [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by lumierefl
Sorry but metal domes in a sunny playground? That a legitimate beef. In the summer it can get very hot. Too hot for kids to be playing on- so why the hell have a playground in the first place? It was a stupid idea- must be the same people who ordered the jail playground.
The domes will be heated by the sun the most during the times when it is unwise to bring your child to the park. do young toddlers go out between 12-3 p.m. for long periods of time?
I have many friends living near here, and they are not the type to overprotect their kids. Likely the Daily News just grabbed some local loudmouth and quoted them, as though they were as authoritative as the Sec’y of State.
Ah, come on. Did none of you ever slide down the silver metal slides as a kid? Yeah, it singed your bum in the heat of the summer, particularly if you were wearing thin or short shorts. But it didn’t kill us. Or scar us for life. We just learned that metal gets hot in the sun and either you can take the heat or you can’t. It amazes me how much folks cry and whine over everything when it comes to kids these days. If you don’t think your wee one can take the heat, don’t let them play on the darn thing. Or let them learn, like we did, that metal gets hot in the sun. End of story.
Bode is a Dutch name. With a last name of Bulhak, they probably come by it honestly.
I don’t get all the hate on kids’ names these days btw. I was a kids birthday party the other day and there were moms named Kiersten, Kirsten, Kristin and Keirstan. Or something! 4 names all different by one letter. Impossible to keep track of. Give me an Annabel and an Aidan any day over the names of yesteryear.
The domes are dumb.
Love the redesign. Wasn’t working in Chrome, but nothing is working in Chrome is it?
“thousands may lose section 8 vouchers”
good. perhaps it will teach people that babies are not a commodity.
*rob*
Maly – hilarious story. Read on another site the cops made 50 undercover buys over two months. It takes cops two months and 50 buys to ensure that you’ve got your ducks lined up in a row? What, like they didn’t realize they were being sold weed illegally the third time? So if they sold 170 pounds per week, how come they only seized two pounds?
Also, if anyone has another source for Crown Heights jerk chicken, please LMK.
You might enjoy this Brooklyn story, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/nyregion/07potbust.html?hpw
I heard non-union workers fix the turntables on cranes *almost* as good as union. Too bad almost as good means people die.
diPRIbs – l@@k 8:52 post
But now that I think about it, would have been a sweet middle name…
Group field trip for a nursery school. Oh, and actually taking 1/2 day off.