Brooklyn residents' complaints about playground designed as prison are finally heard

[Harry]

Kids at this Brooklyn tot lot weren't swinging from monkey bars - they were sitting behind bars.

 

For eight years - until the city hurriedly painted over it Wednesday - toddlers at a violence-racked housing project were encouraged to pretend they were in prison in a city-funded playground.

 

The bright orange "JAIL" in the junglegym at the preschoolers' playground at the Tompkins Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant has upset residents for years.

 

"I know our black kids out there go to jail. It's like they are getting ready to send them to jail," fumed Shirley Corbett, 63, a grandmother of 20 who lives next to the playground.

 

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2010/03/24/2010-03-24_brooklyn_housing_project_residents_say_city_tot_lot_with_play_jail_treats_kid_li.html#ixzz0jC5S4kiL

[Queens Surface]

Just paint over "JAIL" with some orange paint.

[Friendlyparrots]

Good idea but when they catch you doing it you go to jail for vandilizing city prpoerty

[St Louis Car 09]

Good idea but when they catch you doing it you go to jail for vandilizing city prpoerty

Yep they will lock you up in that little jail right there.

[mark1447]

They should of draw the man who is locked up in jail on the Monoploy game! Make more of a game instead ..

 

I think we should put a prisoner here lol

[Fresh Pond]

My cousins live in those projects and I never noticed that it said that until now

[Y2Julio]

The city isn't preparing anyone for jail, if it's anyone, it's the individuals themselves.

[LRG]

The city isn't preparing anyone for jail, if it's anyone, it's the individuals themselves.

 

Very wise words.

[NX Express]

The city isn't preparing anyone for jail, if it's anyone, it's the individuals themselves.

 

IAWTP.

[Dan05979]

The city isn't preparing anyone for jail, if it's anyone, it's the individuals themselves.

 

Perfectly said. Its a little taste of the big house where 60% of those residents will be "residence" behind bars.

[St Louis Car 09]

Perfectly said. Its a little taste of the big house where 60% of those residents will be "residence" behind bars.

So true so true.Someone applaud this man.:tup:

[Forest Glen]

I wonder what the reaction would be if they put this in Tribeca or Douglaston.

[St Louis Car 09]

I wonder what the reaction would be if they put this in Tribeca or Douglaston.

None actually. Now they are trying to remove it all together.:confused:

[Kingsbridge Bus]

C'mon, I heard kids now play some game called cops & robbers:mad:

[INDman]

I wonder what the reaction would be if they put this in Tribeca or Douglaston.

 

I doubt anyone there would care.

[NX Express]

I doubt anyone there would care.

 

Hmm...................and why is that??? Because these things don't actually encourage people to go to jail, contrary to popular BELIEF.

[INDman]

Hmm...................and why is that??? Because these things don't actually encourage people to go to jail, contrary to popular BELIEF.

 

Yes, society does not send you to jail, you only send your self to jail.

[NX Express]

Yes, society does not send you to jail, you only send your self to jail.

 

Yes

[Forest Glen]

No, gangsters are glorified in rap videos and in urban neighborhoods. Going to school and speaking proper English is considered "acting white". This further perpetuates that belief.

[Joe]

Going to school and speaking proper English is considered "acting white".

 

sounds like a personal problem.