This reminds me of when the MTA says they can’t achieve Paris’ tunneling costs because New York is old and dense. https://twitter.com/erinmdurkin/status/1250065622383431685

The fancy private high school I went to shuts down East 89th Street between Park and Lex for part of every day when the weather is nice (“play street”) so the little kids can run around.

If it’s good enough for Dalton....

[that living standards in nyc are so low that people pay $50,000 a year for their kids to attend a school that doesn't have a playground is another subject]