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Old Posted Apr 4, 2007, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by antinimby View Post
True New York kids don't play in those sissy playgrounds. They played in the streets.
I'm sure people probably do use that park, but I've never seen a single person in it. Not even homeless. But I'm not over there all the time.

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Janel Patterson, a spokeswoman for the city’s Economic Development Corporation, said that residents would be compensated for the park’s loss by a planned esplanade and bike path along the East River. “The esplanade park would be more than three times the size of Robert Moses,” she said
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