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Where I used to live on 78th St near the East River there is a park called John Jay Park. It is behind two different schools. There would be literally hundreds
by ryanworl 8y ago
Where I used to live on 78th St near the East River there is a park called John Jay Park. It is behind two different schools.
There would be literally hundreds of children playing daily in that park when the weather was nice, and usually a smaller number when it wasn’t as nice, but still hardly ever zero during reasonable “kids playing outside hours”.
Ages were between kids that could barely walk there with parents or nannies all the way to young teens.
I’m sure many other cities are not like this, but in neighborhoods where people
with children in NYC actually live (like the UES) there are plenty of parks and people to fill them.
- exelius 8y agoNew York (Manhattan in particular) is unique among American urban areas in this way. A big part of the way American cities grow is the interplay between the quality of the various local school districts.
- bobthepanda 8y agoNew York is considered an “average” school district. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/29/upshot/money-race-and-success-how-your-school-district-compares.html?mtrref=www.google.com https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/29/upshot/money-... Quite frankly it’s a miracle that the school district works at all. Having experienced it, school choice does not scale to a million plus kids.