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Cops: Ban Baked Good Sales; Absurdity of Law
Topic Started: Nov 19 2010, 02:19 PM (314 Views)
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‘Police! Step Away From the Chess Table’
By ANDY NEWMAN AND NATE SCHWEBER
Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times

One of the thousands of public chess boards in city parks.

Updated, 6:10 p.m. | Wherever you find yourself in the city, there is probably an outdoor chess table nearby. According to the parks department, there are more than 2,000 public chess or checkers tables spread among 536 parks, offering the perfect spot to sacrifice a queen or promote a pawn.

Unless, apparently, the chess tables are in a playground.

Seven chess players in Upper Manhattan found this out the hard way, when police officers approached them at the stone chess tables in Inwood Hill Park and issued them summonses for failure to comply with signs.

The tables are behind the gates of the park’s Emerson Playground, which the signs in question state is off limits to adults unaccompanied by minors.


http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/police-step-away-from-the-chess-table/
http://c4ss.org/content/4958
http://www.copblock.org/1219/darian-worden-cops-money-good-neighborhood-bad/
Edited by mynameis, Nov 20 2010, 03:12 AM.
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