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City to set aside beach space for families with little kids
By adamg on Wed, 06/03/2015 - 7:26am
The mayor's office yesterday announced a new "family friendly beach" at M Street in South Boston.
For a $5 fee, families will get access to an enclosed part of the beach, restrooms with changing tables, picnic tables with umbrellas, outdoor showers, beach game equipment - and WiFi.
The new beach space opens June 20 and will be open 9 a.m to 5 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. Memberships are available at the K Street entrance of the Curley Community Center.
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convenient but
While appealing to families/people with children, it seems that spaces for children/"families" are increasingly segregated from the rest of the population. I don't see it as an ultimately healthy thing when people-with-kids and people-without-kids are kept separate and made to feel part of separate social worlds.
Come on...
Nobody is segregating anyone. If you'd like to be in the part of the beach that is family-friendly, you have an option. If you'd rather be mixed in w/those w/o kids, you can do that too.
That depends. Will there be
That depends. Will there be a rule that you need kids with you to be allowed in? All NYC playgrounds have this rule. So does Boston Legoland.
Adults are allowed in the Children's Museum without kids, but you have to leave an ID at the desk.
smh
wow! I checked the children's museum website to see if what you said was true - that's pretty sad. I would feel most stigmatized/unwelcome if I went to the museum out of curiosity/wonder and was treated as or made to feel like a creepy weirdo.
People have become so risk-averse and overprotective of children...while also dividing the world up into "kids things" and "grown-ups' things"
shouldn't such amenitities be expected?
Changing tables, outdoor showers, functioning restrooms should be part of what we expect from public services. In the bigger picture, I am glad they will now exist where they didn't.
Sadly, there also seems to be a hidden agenda, as isn't this the area where old school Southie residents were all upset that the young yuppies were congregating, and um, having fun? I for one was happy that more people were using the beach...
Um, having fun? Um, young
Um, having fun? Um, young yuppies? Surely, you're talking about the beckys and bros who congregate with their awful beer pong and corn hole drinking games. Where, by the way, it is actually against the law to drink in public. The beach is for everybody to enjoy, not just drunken fools who have no consideration for their fellow beach goers. Get a clue.
I get it
There are definitely some idiots who think it's spring break and have zero awareness of other people but that's not most people that hang out at M St. Forget the part about public drinking being illegal for one second - do we really need to call the fun police because young people are playing cornhole and drinking beers? 30 years ago young people were drinking beers and throwing lawn darts. At least our games are evolving into something less dangerous. I have my own gripes with the Bro crowd - but beach games and beers isn't one of them.
http://www.chron.com/news
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Shooting-death-of-...
Your point?
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Do you understand the difference...
...between "young yuppies" and college students? Apparently not. Drink your prune juice and get the knot out of your knickers, it's affecting your disposition and not for the better.
I don't understand why they
I don't understand why they are doing this? Can the children not be around regular folks anymore? Why can't we all have access to these types of things? Will this family friendly area pick up after themselves bc the amount of garbage people leave on the beach is disgraceful.
I like the idea
It's like movie theaters who have kid's screenings -- they give a place for parents to go knowing the kids won't disturb anyone and it puts the kids away from the adults who really don't want to be near them.
When they start blocking non-kid-owning adults from the beach entirely I'll be annoyed. But yes please, section off an area for the screaming little brats and leave the rest of the beach open for the people who just want to get some sun and a swim.
That place is interesting.
I went by there in March to finish a Harborwalk segment. It had strange segregation of sexes back in the day.
Boys were separated from men in sections while women and girls were allowed to mix. It's almost as if someone didn't trust the men with the boys.
Do the rest of the people get these same amenities?
Barring the changing tables, it seems like these are amenities that any beachgoer would like to have, and should be equally entitled to. Are they available for everybody?