Ruh-roh! Teenagers Are Being Banned from the Atlantic Terminal Mall
The Local picked up a thread from the Brooklyn Tech bulletin board. Seems that kids need to be accompanied by someone 21 years or older. As you may recall, there’ve been some problems with unaccompanied teens getting into trouble, especially when cheap chicken wings have been involved.
The Local picked up a thread from the Brooklyn Tech bulletin board. Seems that kids need to be accompanied by someone 21 years or older. As you may recall, there’ve been some problems with unaccompanied teens getting into trouble, especially when cheap chicken wings have been involved.
You can die in Iraq, but you can’t hang at the mall. Sure, that makes sense.
I was a ‘tech teen’ back in the day. And you know what, there’s a beautiful park right across the street from the school – what better location to meet friends at? And in the time since my graduation, tech (as well as other public schools) have added numerious extracurricular activities. That’s where the teens should be.
As a previous poster mentioned, the current atlantic mall design isn’t built with fountains or tables or other places to hang out – it’s meant for shoppers to do their basic daily shopping, and if the kids hanging around the mall aren’t shopping, store owners have every right to not want them there.
This is stupid and a waste of time, resources, and energy. Get some security and I bet this is a rumor. Teens and tweens are the biggest source of revenue in America.
I’ve personally been in the A.C. Mall when the teens have started to rumble. Couldn’t find a security guard or cop ANYWHERE. It was beyond scary. I left shaking and near tears from pure fright. I don’t know how they’ll enforce a no-teens-in-the-mall rule without the addition of security guards (and the addition of security guards – good ones- would mean they don’t need to have this rule at all).
Ratner’s first mall there, the one with the pathmark, seems to have been designed to make circulation as uncomfortable as possible = too narrow external corridors which bake shoppers in the afternoon sun. For being immensely profitable stores, these malls offer little in amenities for their customers, teenagers or adults. How will the McDonald’s survive without the teens?
Most likely in new hampshire too.
as for Savannah…
most likely.
“this is stupid and honestly reeks of racism and classism”
So I assume when they did this in New Hampshire, Savannah Georgia, Virgina, Newburg they were all being racist too?
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its when we just hung in a crowd, getting loud, blocking paths, that we were treated rudely and made to move/leave
fine, so them keep it that and kick out the ones who do that.
*rob*