Playground Jail in Bed Stuy Sparking Outrage
The emergence of a jail-themed jungle gym at the Tompkins Houses in Bedford Stuyvesant has the community in an uproar. Black and Brown News, which ran this image earlier this week, did some homework and found that NYCHA was responsible for ordering it earlier this week. I don’t think they should put that there in…
The emergence of a jail-themed jungle gym at the Tompkins Houses in Bedford Stuyvesant has the community in an uproar. Black and Brown News, which ran this image earlier this week, did some homework and found that NYCHA was responsible for ordering it earlier this week. I don’t think they should put that there in a neighborhood where many Blacks and Latinos go to jail,” one resident of the public housing complex told BBN. “My son will ask me, Mommy, if I go in there, will I go to jail. As of yesterday, NYCHA had told BBN it was “looking into” the matter and there had been no response yet from the mayor’s office. Pretty mind-boggling and offensive, no?
Jail Playground’ at NYC Public Housing Property [BBN]GMAP
Photo by Monifa Bandele
Nothing more boring than a bunch of people agreeing and patting each other on the back (to put it non-perversely).
I’m outta here like Vladimir…
*BAMF*
Is there a reason one would have pine tar on one’s hands if not playing baseball?
Posted by: Biff Champion at March 24, 2010 3:37 PM
Climbing pine trees. Playing with pine needles. Throwing pine cones and siblings, cars, pets, etc. Whittling pine twigs with your trusty pocket knife. Stacking freshly cut pine boards at the sawmill. Etc. etc. etc.
Posted by: lechacal at March 24, 2010 3:42 PM
You’re talking to Biff, lechacal. Jewish kids don’t do any of those things and, except for Sandy Koufax and a few others, don’t play baseball either.
Sorry, I was unclear. I was really asking if there’s a reason someone my age would have pine tar on his hands. Now I’m pining to be a kid again.
Posted by: Biff Champion at March 24, 2010 3:47 PM
My answer is on point.
“Climbing pine trees. Playing with pine needles. Throwing pine cones and siblings, cars, pets, etc. Whittling pine twigs with your trusty pocket knife. Stacking freshly cut pine boards at the sawmill. Etc. etc. etc.”
Sorry, I was unclear. I was really asking if there’s a reason someone my age would have pine tar on his hands. Now I’m pining to be a kid again.
“The OT.”
SNORT!
Please name a human society which stands above reproach?
which lives in that most rerefied stratus of the human condition where no moral judgement can be made about them?
Posted by: Legion at March 24, 2010 3:42 PM
The OT.
hahaha……ROFL
Please name a human society which stands above reproach?
which lives in that most rerefied stratus of the human condition where no moral judgement can be made about them?
Posted by: Legion at March 24, 2010 3:42 PM
The OT.
Of course I meant trowing pine cones *at* siblings, cars, pets, etc.
cmu,
let’s try this approach,
a logical extension of your argument,
Please name a human society which stands above reproach?
which lives in that most rerefied stratus of the human condition where no moral judgement can be made about them?