Sunday, April 13, 2008

Overdevelopment leads to ballfield shortage

Development causes ballfield shortage

Parents say large new developments are making it harder to find open space for their children to play sports. The loss of open space as more apartments are built and the influx of school age children into the new residential developments has made it tough for youth sports teams to find a place to play. To help alleviate the demand, several locations have been suggested to create new fields, including Randall's Island, and developers are being asked to include playing fields in their projects, like at Battery Park City and Sheldon Solow's former Con Edison site by the East River.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The amount of playgounds in the city are decreasing - they build a library, take away a playground, expand a school, take away a playground.

Now since a good portion of the school system are children of immigrants, this shows the real attitude towards immigrants by the machine - they are here to be exploited - as tennants, as laborers, as voters.

Interesting to notice that the (machine controlled) immigrant groups simply parrot what the machine tells them - more housing! more housing! more housing! which makes the problem even worse.

But hell, the attitude is, considering that those kids come from dirty streets next to open sewage in their countries, playing out in the streets in traffic is good enough for them.

Anonymous said...

Yes, but Manhattan is getting a new park on the east side, so the important people are being taken care of.

Anonymous said...

Illegal immigrants in New York is putting a drain on everything.

It is the problem; we need a solution.

DEPORTATION!

Anonymous said...

Yes, but Manhattan is getting a new park on the east side, so the important people are being taken care of.

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Immigrants are getting booted out of Manhattan, something the press (and the machine controlled immigrant advocacy groups) ignore.

Why?