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.
very sad.. private property and a small percentage of kids do a lot of damage
tough on the hardworking, chill and fun kids that most are…. the freaks EF it up for all again
my daughter was a tech teen… no where in nyc for teens to hang w/o lots of mon’ay
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Why any teen would choose to hang out at the Atlantic Center is beyond me.
probably because it’s a prime central location for them to meet up with all the subway lines there and stuff
*rob*
Butterfly – if kids are circulating and shopping, fine, leave em alone. When they’re just clustering in a hall and acting rowdy, not fine. Don’t pull the race card so fast. When I was young I also would go to the galleria (I’m from ‘the’ Valley), and we weren’t bothered if we kept moving, its when we just hung in a crowd, getting loud, blocking paths, that we were treated rudely and made to move/leave (and we’re ‘priveleged white kids’)
I was just about to say, BSD. After school was out my parents made sure I had very little time to roam the streets. I had a schedule and they would periodically call where I was supposed to be to make sure I was there (of course I didn’t know this until AFTER I graduated…lol).
Why any teen would choose to hang out at the Atlantic Center is beyond me. I try to avoid going there as much as possible because it a complete clusterf*ck to being with and the Target there looks like it was just looted.
BSD, yes good point, but kids still like just chill and go to the mall with their friends sometimes too. are you telling me you never did that as a kid?
yes in an ideal world theyd be at home studying or at the library every single day until it’s time for their beddie time :-/
this is stupid and honestly reeks of racism and classism
*rob*
“they have to be somewhere. ”
Here’s a few: home working/studying/playing, playground, basketball court, library online/reading, gym, etc.
Sorry parents, a private business is not your babysitter.
youve GOT to be f’ing kidding me.
this city is getting lamer and lamer by the day and our basic human rights are slowly being taken away from us little by little.
banning kids from the MALL!?!??
*rob*
I’d rather have the kids hanging out — flirting, socializing, testing the waters — in public than behind the closed doors of whatever teen opens his or her home to the crowd. Almost all parents of teens need to work, and are not home in after-school hours, when teens are normally socializing a bit before returning home. Just where, as a community, do we think they should go? Who is going to open their doors to kids? Just because a few act up sometimes doesn’t mean they are going to cease to exist–they have to be somewhere.