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
I guess liberals are smarter than us conservatives after all.
Posted by: lechacal at March 24, 2010 4:41 PM
Who said I was a “liberal?” And when exactly did I refer to you as a “conservative?”
You’re unwittingly supporting my assertion.
lechacal,
that’s my ongoing project here
on Brownstoner,
the world’s longest and
most meaningless
poem.
all in iambic pentameter.
ENY, what are you all
bent out of shape for?
you got a win earlier
in the week and more!
see how it all rhymes?
Legion, why do you always type with hard returns in random places? Visually, your posts resemble haikus or something.
Posted by: lechacal at March 24, 2010 4:38 PM
That is getting to be the second most common question, after the “Dave, are you really who you say you are?” card that all the newbies go for.
I was addressing folks with open minds and an ability to evaluate information independently.
Posted by: East New York at March 24, 2010 4:36 PM
You’re on the wrong blog, buster.
I was addressing folks with open minds and an ability to evaluate information independently. You’re definitely not a part of that group.
Posted by: East New York at March 24, 2010 4:36 PM
Oh damn, he called me not open minded. I guess the only way to prove him wrong is to agree with him. Dammit! Why do I always get myself boxed in like this? I guess liberals are smarter than us conservatives after all.
This is the part of economic theory that most people do not understand.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 24, 2010 4:32 PM
“Reagan’s central insight — that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic,†Mr. Obama wrote in his second book, “contained a good deal of truth.†Most notably, he praised Mr. Reagan as a president who “changed the trajectory of America.â€
But Mr. Obama also argued that the Reagan administration had gone too far, and that if elected, he would try to put the country on a new trajectory. “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€
Since 1980, median real household income has risen less than 15 percent. The only period of strong middle-class income growth during this time came in the mid- and late 1990s, which by coincidence was also the one time when taxes on the affluent were rising.
For most of the last three decades, tax rates for the wealthy have been falling, while their pretax pay has been rising rapidly. Real incomes at the 99.99th percentile have jumped more than 300 percent since 1980. At the 99th percentile — about $300,000 today — real pay has roughly doubled.
The laissez-faire revolution that Mr. Reagan started did not cause these trends. But its policies — tax cuts, light regulation, a patchwork safety net — have contributed to them.
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This is part of trickle-down economics that most proponents do not understand. And don’t want to.
Legion, why do you always type with hard returns in random places? Visually, your posts resemble haikus or something.
And yet in citing their credentials you have failed in your mission.
Posted by: lechacal at March 24, 2010 4:25 PM
Says who? I’m not expecting to convince someone like you of anything. And people like Dave are too interested in letting everyone know how often they get laid to consider anything like this too seriously.
I was addressing folks with open minds and an ability to evaluate information independently. You’re definitely not a part of that group.
etson, the use of atomic weapons on civilians has fallen dramatically since the 1940s. I would call that progress.
Posted by: lechacal at March 24, 2010 4:32 PM
…and yet curiously, Atomic Wedgies seem to be on a rise in Congressional showers…hummmmmm……….