The parks department's monitoring of trees in high-hazard areas like public squares, playgrounds and picnic areas has not caught up with an increasingly sophisticated science of managing the well-recognized risks of aging trees.
A four-acre grassy parcel, owned by the state, separates them from the L-shaped southern buildings, which will include the 136,471-square-foot Home Depot, which is being built on the site of the demolished Caldor, and the 11,050 square-foot Kiddie Academy, another new building, which has a 6,000 square-foot playground.
The 30,000-square-foot playground has two dozen hands-on exhibitions, including the Standing Spinner to explore angular momentum and the 13-foot-long Archimedes Screw, which uses principles of physics to move water uphill.
The Flea is a new outdoor market that takes place Sundays , 10a.m. to 5 p.m., on the 40,000-square-foot playground of Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School on Lafayette Avenue between Clermont and Vanderbilt Avenues in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Using SpatialOS, which is an engine created by Andreessen Horowitz-bandedesignedable and designed to provide the basis for huge, sophisticated and complex game worlds, HelloVR will create a 10,000 square-mile playground for VR users to enjoy together.
Larry Flynt's Hustler Club, which bills itself as a "10,000 square-foot playground of decadent adult entertainment," proved too much for one Manhattan man.
Using funding from the study, a 600-square meter playground with soft surface was built in the neighborhood where most of the intervention children resided.
"It matters when tall buildings spring up in the wrong places, overshadowing our crescents and squares, our playgrounds and palaces, canals and cathedrals.
But several members of Community School Board 30, some of whom are hearing about the plan for the first time, say the loss of 1,400 square feet of playground space is unacceptable.
The square was a playground for the Forbidden City before the last emperor was evicted during the 1911 revolution led by Dr Sun Yat-sen.
The dingy basement, with its warren of low-slung bedrooms, now has a floor made from rubber playground squares, and walls lined with funhouse Mylar mirrors.
