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
lechacal,
we’ll have to leave the explanation
for the next festive occasion when
the crazy brownstoner crowd
can make a toast.
eny and cmu too!
ENY has never liked
the jackal
very much
Others have given me a tough guy image
Which ENY feels
it is his duty to challenge
I didn’t create the image myself
so I don’t mind
when he does it
Posted by: lechacal at March 24, 2010 4:48 PM
I think you’ve given yourself that image, and what’s more you like it. Remember your “You need to freak out on people once in a while” post? Does that sound like someone trying to play tough guy or not? That wasn’t my idea.
Anyway, my posts have nothing to do with sentiment. I disagree with your views, that’s all, and I don’t mind saying so. Much like our President, I enjoy a robust intellectual debate, and I have the mental ammunition to allow me to scrap with anyone.
ENY, I didn’t say either of the two points you mentioned in thiose two paragraphs.
FAIL
Yeah, well economic theory would tell you that you don’t accomplish this by taking from the rich and giving to the poor and you certainly don’t accomplish it by raising taxes (on anyone).
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 24, 2010 4:47 PM
Oh yeah. What was I thinking? It’s better to raise taxes on the MIDDLE CLASS while reducing taxes for the WEALTHY! That’s worked SO well over the previous eight years.
The idea that tax reductions alone can improve the economy to any significant degree has been categorically debunked. That is, except in the minds of some.
No seriously though – Legion, what’s with the hard returns? Are you not telling just so you can maintain an air of mystery?
You / they seem to imply that rising incomes at the high end are undesirable. I don’t see why. How do government tax revenues from that group compare across the periods?
And again, why use the halcyon days of the late 1970’s as a starting point for the analysis?
ENY has never liked
the jackal
very much
Others have given me a tough guy image
Which ENY feels
it is his duty to challenge
I didn’t create the image myself
so I don’t mind
when he does it
All those in the New York City Housing Authority, who are behind this insult to the Bed Stuy community and its children should be kicked out of their positions. Also all those who turned a blind eye to the blueprints for the playground project. Those who stay silent are no different as those who plan and bring forth these travesties. Hopefully the parents and community leaders will not allow their children to play on this equipment until it’s changed. It’s a shame that the children were attacked in this way, because an assault upon them is what this is.
“The project of the next president,†he said in an interview during the campaign, “is figuring out how you create bottom-up economic growth, as opposed to the trickle-down economic growth.â€
Yeah, well economic theory would tell you that you don’t accomplish this by taking from the rich and giving to the poor and you certainly don’t accomplish it by raising taxes (on anyone).