Tear it all out, put in asphalt paving and two basketball nets and call it a day.

Broken 40 bottles are optional.

Oh good lord, the child's name is "Destiny". I sincerely hope that she is destined for better things. Or to find out that prison baby daddy is not her real dad or something...

Can they not just replace the offensive parts of it? The whole thing doesn't look like a cell block, so why not just get rid of the pieces that are ill thought out. Such waste.

So, can we start calling this thing the "Brooklyn Guantanamo"?

Really, do young kids not play cops and robbers anymore? Maybe these children could have grown up to join the police force.

don't take the whole thing down b/c you think it's offensive. just remove that part with something else!

what kind of image does a bridge/slide/swing set portray? a slave ship coming from africa? c'mon!

don't ruin the fun for the kids.

take it down b/c no one uses it. or someone got physically injured using it. or if pushas use it as a nesting ground.

but don't do it b/c a tiny part of it "mistakenly" offended people.

I think a jungle theme would be the most appropriate. With lots of ropes so they can swing from fake tree to fake tree.

How about 'Pawn Shop' , 'Check Cashing' or 'Liquor store'.

Or Crown Fried Chicken or Watermelon Stand

Now that's plain racist. My examples dot white trash nabes all over the south (and upstate NY for that matter).

This just in: all Monopoly boards in the Greater New York area have replaced "Go To Jail" and "Get out of Jail Free" with "Go To Work" and "Get Health Care Free"

Collect $200 in food stamps when you pass go!

Keep it. Fuck the liberal media that publish this crap to sell. Its a jail themed playground in a black neighborhood. The playground planning team should not be getting slammed by the media because blacks get locked up all the time. The residents will break it sooner or later because everything else we (taxpayers) pay to be put up in these areas get vandalized. You can give the public assistance neighborhoods anything without a complaint.

I'm a Liberal and I think the whole thing is stupid. It's not a Liberal/Conservative issue.

** You can't give the public assistance neighborhoods anything without a complaint. **

Not only do I want someone else to pay for my home, my food, for taking care of my babies while I go to high school, I want a new playground because the message on the kid's play equipment (that's been there for years) might remind me of what happens when you just sit around and let your government take care of you 'from cradle to grave'.

Mayor LaGuardia, father of housing projects 60 years ago, instructed the builders to make the housing "nice, but not too nice, so people will not want to stay more than a few years". Generations later, the residents feel entitled to just keep demanding more. Maybe they should put in a parking lot to make up for the ones the city is taking away to build more affodable housing.

you do remember how people go to be ghettoized right

it's not like they all signed out to be chased into unwanted corners by racist developers/businessmen/government

that's okay though, bootstraps. bootstraps. bootstraps.

I like how it was there for 6 years and was not a problem until one person said so, now it's a big deal.

Tear it down and put a nothing in it's place. That way no one can complain.

Just leave it up. Within 6 mo. it will be destroyed.

ATTICA! ATTICA!

“We should be having space playgrounds, so they dream of being an astronaut."...

So dreaming of locking up bad guys is a "bad" dream? Or even trying to stay out of jail?