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
“now let’s all get some 40’s and
play on the slide.”
I’ll drink to that!
3) The income growth of teh wealthy may have been partly spurred by lower tax rates driving overall economic growth and is good news for the economy as a whole.
Posted by: etson at March 24, 2010 4:30 PM
This is the part of economic theory that most people do not understand.
etson, the use of atomic weapons on civilians has fallen dramatically since the 1940s. I would call that progress.
cmu,
there you go,
you are a complete cynic by your own admission.
Then why worry so much about a playground,
after all
we are all doomed to play out our
roles good and bad on this earth.
now let’s all get some 40’s and
play on the slide.
“The pretax incomes of the wealthy have soared since the late 1970s, while their tax rates have fallen more than rates for the middle class and poor.”
1) Why use the late 1970’s as a benchmark?
2) Their tax rates had further to fall as they were very high to begin with. By contrast the poorest pay very little or no income tax.
3) The income growth of teh wealthy may have been partly spurred by lower tax rates driving overall economic growth and is good news for the economy as a whole.
Get it?
Posted by: East New York at March 24, 2010 4:23 PM
NO, I don’t read any liberal rags.
I’m trying to demonstrate that these are – to use the words of one poster – “real numbers from a real source” and not questionable statistics from some “liberal rag.”
Posted by: East New York at March 24, 2010 4:23 PM
And yet in citing their credentials you have failed in your mission.
ENY, I don’t get your point on that 4:07 post. Are you questioning their credentials???
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at March 24, 2010 4:11 PM
No, Dave. I’m pointing them out.
I’m trying to demonstrate that these are – to use the words of one poster – “real numbers from a real source” and not questionable statistics from some “liberal rag.”
Get it?
ENY, I don’t get your point on that 4:07 post. Are you questioning their credentials??
Could be taken either way:
1-Prestigious university profs who can be trusted.
2-Liberal kneejerkers who’re clearly showing their bias.