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July
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- Playground equipment gets burning hot in summer
- Condo renting couple was bad news
- Disgusting shitbox to no doubt replace tasteful No...
- Let's rethink that LGA AirTrain thing...
- Ass Hat At Rockaway Beach
- Why the hell is this 18th century church in Elmhur...
- Robber steals Resorts World guard's car
- Glendale homeless shelter permits revoked
- Why are we only raising the wage for fast food wor...
- Ruben Wills has worst Council attendance
- Board of elections seeks to end long voter lines
- Jackson Heights Food Court closed
- Does Fort Totten need better security?
- A new LaGuardia on the horizon
- Steinway Mansion for sale again?
- Jamaica: not for the faint of heart
- Even Manhattan is victim of bad zoning
- City still shelling out hundreds of millions in ju...
- Ridgewood community garden getting kicked out
- Assi Plaza plan has to pass muster at CPC
- Dollar van legislation introduced
- Fake candidate invites himself to debate
- A wolf in sheep's clothing?
- Another supermarket closing
- Sampson found guilty
- Crane accident causes problems on 7 line
- Making an accessible city
- Millstones damaged yet again
- Weiner lands a job
- Zoning changes for Sandy affected communities
- Con Ed uses interesting jerry-rigging in Sunnyside
- Animal cruelty complaints to go through Crimestopp...
- Queens Village foreclosure turned into sex club
- Staten Island is in big trouble!
- New notification procedure for permanent homeless ...
- Giving a Fedders house a makeover
- Dept of Agriculture looking to lift beetle quarantine
- Cleanup required for recently rezoned Ridgewood pr...
- Historical society seeks to rename Rikers Island
- Public pools have a bunch of health violations
- Get ready for "the sex shop next door"
- Hudson Yards not a great bargain for taxpayers
- Synthetic pot is really bad news
- Southern Queens is very buggy this year
- Bringing tourists to Jamaica: good luck with that
- Adventures in blog poaching
- Fox visits golfers at Kissena Park
- Goodbye Pathmark & Waldbaum's, hello Stop & Shop
- Waterfront Crabhouse to reopen under new owner
- Open hydrants pose safety hazard
- 7 train extension still not open
- This is what AirBnB allows "regular New Yorkers" t...
- City fails to maintain bike lane, causes injury
- Petition to clean up Charles Park
- No left turn GPS option could improve road safety
- Fun articles about the Rockaways
- So how exactly did this happen?
- Telling it like it is on Willets Point
- It's time to clean up the blight
- And the latest from the Steinway Mansion...
- Crooked housing inspector heading to the pokey
- Grimm gets only 8 months in prison
- Car dealerships should park legally
- Queens properties to get LPC hearing
- Still scammin', now more than ever
- Company advertises illegally all over Fresh Meadows
- Starbucks opening in Jamaica
- $10M to bring broadband service to projects
- 61% of Queens households own cars
- Tax benefits are lucrative for builders of luxury ...
- Stop pissing in the streets already!
- HUGE development coming to Flushing shore
- Climate change = buh-bye LIC
- Why can't we do this here?
- Redbird may fly in a better location
- City lied to Koo about Linden Place high school
- Parking problem in Kew Gardens
- New lifeguard stations stand unused
- MTA considers W train for Astoria again
- Building collapses in Bed-Stuy
- CB7 agrees to hand over records to Feds
- NYCHA has major repair delays
- Macedonia Church not being replaced
- Hipsters moving to Detroit
- King Manor experiences exec change
- Trucks, trucks and more trucks
- Lotsa loot for little lawyering
- What will Bill do at Flushing-Meadows?
- Rents in Queens trending down?
- DA races once again have no challengers
- A response from Steinway & Sons...and useless pols
- Crowley pushes for light rail, housing in manufact...
- Queens Tourism Center shut down
- Bail to be eliminated for many low level offenders
- Brooklyn manages to top Queens in disgusting food ...
- Luxury car scam bust
- Library audit very revealing
- Bill drafted to stop the chop
- Bowne House visitors center being designed
- Commercial targets AirBnB
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12 comments:
Grass and dirt doesn't get too hot. But we can't have grass and dirt, can we?
People are paying attention to what settlements the city makes for different claims.
What's the expectation of these people - that the city enclose and air condition the playgrounds?
Wear shoes. What sage advice! This is what passes for news?
Metal (and asphalt) gets hot in the sun. We've always known that. This was a problem when we were little kids too.
If anything, it should be less of an issue now, with so much more playground equipment made out of wood or plastic.
No, it's not news, it's a blog post.
But at least someone is willing to Please, think of the children!
OK, it was a news report. I couldn't get it to play at first. Point taken.
Jesus, 70 years ago when I played in the city parks I noticed that things got hot in the summer sun. I guess that I should have told someone instead of keeping it my secret. Running around the city -anywhere- without foot covering is an invitation to disaster. Good parenting is telling your kids to keep their shoes on when on the streets-Park or otherwise.
I think it's called "hot weather". We even had this back in 1965, when I was 4 years old, and running around NYC Parks, with all the other kids. H-O-T W-E-A-T-H-E-R. Next important article, please.
Chuck Schumer will hold an important press conference on Sunday warning NYC parents about the hidden danger of hot asphalt and playground surfaces.
More breaking news for NYC parents: leaving infants in hot cars can kill them; letting your toddler spend the day in the sun without sunscreen can result in serious sunburn; bleach and other household cleaners kept in unlocked cabinets are poisonous; Unattended children can drown in swimming pools....
anon -1 no, Schumer will try to make a federal case of it. Get the EPA involved, etc etc. And he will connect it to global warming!
Do kids wear sandals anymore? Do they still make them for boys?
This is quite a dumb story for dumb parents.
METAL swings and slides were the norm when I was a kid back in the '50s. My playground of choice back then was on 90th Street between 32nd Avenue and Northern Blvd. Still there, by the way!
YEAH... stuff got real hot, and the ground was concrete (real HARD); you learned HOW to play, and stay safe on your own.
I'm not saying my parents didn't care, but I was raised to be "street smart", and playgrounds were part of that training.
I used to leave the house after breakfast, grab my METAL skates, a ball and glove, and meet my friends. We played ALL DAY in the park and almost no one ever got hurt. If you did, well, you never made the same mistake twice....
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