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Playgrounds

The very controversial cobbled berm at Playground 89. (Tashan Jackson for Observer.)

Playground Battles: Can Safety and Adventure Co-Exist Where Children Play?

In New York's municipal playgrounds, parents, architects and city officials wage a seemingly ceaseless struggle to balance safety and creativity.
By Kim Velsey

Karaoke Rooms and Climbing Walls: Kids’ Amenities Go Over the Top

The latest residential amenities aim to eliminate rainy-day blues for the underage set (and their parents).
By Karen Angel
New research shows that both bullies and their victims feel the physical and mental effects of the torment.

Rich Kids Are Mean

This past summer, my family spent three months in NYC, and my most vivid memory from that time came from
By Rebecca Keillor
P.S. 166. (Google Street View)

Cobblestoned: Upper West Side Parents Declare War Over Sloped Surfaces

By Rebecca Hiscott
Paradise? (Steven Duffy)

In the Shadow of Four Towers: A Day at the Parks NYU Wants to Bury

By Stephen Duffy

Group Gives City Athletic Fields an F in New Parks Report

By Lysandra Ohrstrom
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