The playground, which is next to Stillmeadow Elementary School, opened in October.
Describes the playground, which is located on 25th St. behind Bellevue.
The prison look was part of the original design of the playground, which was made by a company called Landscape Structures and erected in March 2004, the Housing Authority said.
Giving children components and letting them decide how to use them became a founding principle of the playground, which opened in July.
Interview with Mrs. Beverly Peyser, who with a staff of 14 teen-agers, runs the playground, which is for children from 7 to 14 years old.
One day, he showed me a scale model of the playground, which is on display at the South Street Seaport Museum, on Fulton Street.
In her letter, Ms. Mader contends that the poles in the playground, which are green, are hard to distinguish because they blend in with the the surroundings.
The playground, which has cost more than seven million dollars, is intended to encourage something like the spontaneous free play that is offered by a demolition site — minus the rock throwing and the forcible impounding of participants.
The playground, which opened almost four weeks ago as Carter G. Woodson Children's Park, is the largest and most recent undertaking in the group's City Spaces program, which develops public facilities in areas that have few city parks.
