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
the projects should not exist to house GENERATIONS of poor people. let’s see, go to school and unfortunately possibly have to work at a job only making 25K or, pop out a kid and get to stay in the same apartment your mom did, or better yet your OWN pad coupled with tons of benefits from food subsidy to rent subsidy to free healthcare.. those benefits combined are as if the person is making 80K a year!
something is wrong with that picture, no? i guess the person is too good to make 25K a year and get multiple roommates if need be, like MOST RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE DO!?
*rob*
C’mon Joe, it’s anecdotal generalizations like that that lead to comments like wine lover’s. The vast majority of people in NYCHA housing are there only because they can’t afford to live anywhere else in New York City. And I’m sure, if you took a poll, most of them would get out in a heartbeat if they could find affordable, safe and decent housing somewhere else. Most people in NYCHA housing work for a living, most have never seen the inside of a police station, let alone a jail, and most are doing the best they can for themselves and their families. Just like everywhere, and everyone else.
I’m glad I was born up in 70s and grew up in the 80s when you could actually go the playground with your cap guns and play cops and robbers, then go home and play a little Dungeons and Dragons and then wait for the A-Team to come on TV. Those were the days.
35 years later, I managed to avoid committing any armed robbery. I’m not a blood drinking devil worshiper. And I don’t wear 20 lbs of gold like “B.A.”(Bad Attitude)Baracus.
Have things changed so much that a four letter word like J-A-I-L irreparably scars and stunts kids for life?
Coochie Cave
Hilarious
“Yeah, but it wasn’t labeled, POLE DANCING POLE.”
donatella, you’re awesome!
“There are lots of people who get raises or better jobs and stay in the projects because the rent is so ridiculously low. That’s not right.”
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bkhabitant- I had posted that for BSD. It wasn’t in response to anything you said. I thought it was interesting that people who complained reactions to the playground were too pc but got all offended when the show was on the other foot.
Haitian Prince of Park Slope – you’re right. But some people will never understand it, sorry to say.
Joe from BK….you sound clueless. Things like this add more fuel to the already raging fire.
winelover, we will all be waiting a very long time to read a more ignorant post than the one you have provided to us today. Congratulations.