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
“No matter how much loot I get I’m stayin in da projects”
-Mobb Deep, Survival of the Fittest
Oh my God…I left and came back. My FB friends have more meaniful convo about this post than guys. Ugh, au revoir…enjoy yourselves.
i grew up in the housing projects in the LES/chinatown. these are nycha housing as well. but i bet you if they had this jungle gym there, the kids and their parents there would be busy thinking about multiplication tables and homework and studying hard, so it wouldn’t bother them.
folks, leave behind the entrapment. encourage your kids to work hard, and it won’t matter that it says JAIL on the jungle gym.
“Rob was just accused of being like Sarah Palin (as if that were a meaningful or complete argument)? That’s my exit cue.”
Similar to the end of a discussion at the invocation of calling someone a Nazi or Hitler being called Godwin’s Law, I’m going to name this rather new phenomenon of comparing one to Sarah Palin as the “Lipstick Law.”
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He also refuses to accept MM’s viewpoint as legit and she has just as much experience in poor communities as he. She also speaks from experience but he refuses to credit her. Go figure.
um you need to stop being so one sided on that topic. i NEVER discredit ANYTHING she ever has to offer, EVER. you and her however do that to me almost every single time my viewpoint is shared.
*rob*
oh. that sarah palin joke went RIGHT over my head lol.
*rob*
Let’s all compose a “How Ghetto Are You?” quiz, to settle this once and for all. I’ll start:
Ever go out for drinks with friends and have zero money?
DIBS- I guess I am making the same mistake rob does, then. Broadly indicting. yet you’re defending his mistake.
He also refuses to accept MM’s viewpoint as legit and she has just as much experience in poor communities as he. She also speaks from experience but he refuses to credit her. Go figure.
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bkhabitant- rob knows about the projects. He can see them from his kitchen window.
EW there are no projects in park slope! lol look at me being proud of where i live! it feels good for a change.
*rob*