Posted May 24, 2010, 1:29 PM
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Originally Posted by photolitherland
Seriously? People need to stop being so whinny and sue happy. That stupid little girl could have broken her dumb little nose anywhere. This is why playgrounds suck now because its way too easy to sue people over stupid crap and that women needs to not be so uber reactive. Look at her face, she just needs to be slapped silly. Yeah, metal gets hot, dont make that face and instead just kindly tell them to install the shades.
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More follies from the Parks Dept.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...-rss&FEEDNAME=
Parks give it another fry
By RICH CALDER and SHARI LOGAN
May 24, 2010
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Once burned. Twice, why?
When children were scorched on the new metal playground structures in Brooklyn Bridge Park last month, large festival tents were put up to keep the shiny domes in the shade -- but the city did nothing to safeguard a nearly identical, but larger, piece of equipment at Union Square Park.
The massive metal climbing dome, dubbed “The Mountain,” was the hit of the new $2.4 million Union Square playground, when it opened earlier this year, but after baking in the sun for a few hours, heat can be seen rising from the structure.
“Ow! Ow! My leg, it burns!” cried Duncan Logley, 6, of Manhattan, as he climbed the dome Friday.
His mother, Cathy Logley, uttered the sentiment of many other parents also interviewed: that the new playground looks magnificent, but the city should’ve anticipated that The Mountain, two nearby slides and other exposed metal play pieces are heat magnets.
But the problem should not have come as a surprise to city officials, given that the new Brooklyn Bridge Park playground, which was designed by the same landscape architect, Michael Van Valkenburgh, had the same problem in April.
Park workers there had to install large festival tents over the domes, and they now regularly must move the tents on hot days as the sun shifts.
Shortly after the Post contacted the Parks Department Friday, workers hung yellow caution tape around The Mountain and installed signs saying, “The dome is too hot to play on right now. It will open again as soon as the weather permits.”
Parks Department spokeswoman Vickie Karp later issued a statement saying a permanent shade structure would soon be installed to prevent the piece from getting too hot on warm days.
But some parents aren’t happy with that plan either.
Chris Bierlein, a father of two youngsters, said he believes covering the piece seriously taints its artistic beauty and makes it less enjoyable for kids.
Bierlein, 43, said "it should be up to parents to use common sense and decide whether the play equipment" is too hot.
Geoffrey Croft, of the nonprofit group New York City Park Advocates, said such logic leaves the city open to litigation.
“You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that this kind of playground equipment can burn people,” said Croft. “In fact, it gets so hot that you can fry an egg on it.”
The spanking new 15,000-square-foot playground at Union Square is triple the size of the previous play area at the historic 170-year-old park and part of a community-driven $20 million facelift to the historic green space’s north end.
Van Valkenburgh, who designed the structure, declined to comment.
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