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New York Times has written about the issue as one between rich white residents and diverse visitors:
"The battle over Washington Square Park comes at the tail end of a pandemic that altered social interactions and blurred the lines between nightlife and public space. Eschewing indoor clubs even after the city started reopening in April, people have flooded the park in the evenings, drinking inexpensive — and illegal — homemade cocktails packed in plastic bottles called nutcrackers.
The two groups — the residents and the visitors — are often divided by race, class and age. Many of the complaining residents are white, while the young people who visit the park are a diverse group from outside the neighborhood, attracted to the gritty glamour of the scene but also the notable absence — until recently — of police. In the parks where they live, some said, they are stopped and searched often.
Edith Molina, 19, came down from the Bronx. “This is the park you come to chill out,” she said. “In the Bronx, you have gang violence, and police run you out of parks. Here, police don’t do anything.”
"Setha Low, director of the Public Space Research Group at the Graduate Center at CUNY, said noise control measures in public space are often directed at young people of color.
“Is it really just about noise? What is it about really?” Ms. Low said. [...]
Ringed by expensive private homes and New York University, Washington Square Park has long exuded bourgeois-bohemian, rough-around-the-edges charm — a place where you could buy soft drugs and also attend a protest, where art students in fashionable clothes shared the same space as big-bellied rats."
You think this hardly known website "Nytimes" represents any significant media presence?
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Originally Posted by Airborneguy
That professor caught us. The NYPD actually does have a decibel meter that filters out noise created by white people.
Interesting enough these same people never cared to do this pre COVID/George Floyd. Once they realized that they can break the rules, they started doing this. I'm shocked. It's almost as if when rules aren't enforced, they don't exist.
Interesting enough these same people never cared to do this pre COVID/George Floyd. Once they realized that they can break the rules, they started doing this. I'm shocked. It's almost as if when rules aren't enforced, they don't exist.
Isn't NYT behind a paywall? So you mean to tell me you guys are basically paying to read stuff that you don't agree with?
Nope. These are free to read articles.
And it's not that I disagree with many of their articles, it's that they don't label their articles correctly. Many of their opinion pieces are printed in the news sections. If they can't determine the difference between opinion and news, . . .
I'm not discounting any of what you guys say. I'm just wondering you guys keep partaking of these media outlets when clearly you don't agree with how they report. I don't read the NY Times; ever since it was in print I've always found it inconvenient to read because of the size.
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