The $2.3 million playground was built to be wheelchair accessible and accommodate children with special needs.

Indoor playgrounds can operate at 30 percent capacity, or up to seven people per 1,000 square feet. Museums and aquariums can operate at 50 percent capacity, or up to 12 people per 1,000 square feet.

These playgrounds might not wear out for many years. Allowing the shelf life on the prepolymer to expire is how we risk our kids will not get the playgrounds they deserve. Lead is a severe neurotoxin.

These city playgrounds aren’t for child’s play. Black rubber mats designed to break a child’s fall turn blistering hot in the summer, soaring to higher than 165 degrees, a Daily N… ...

Parents of children burned on city playgrounds said Mayor Bloomberg was insensitive or oblivious for dismissing fears about scorching-hot black safety mats. Temperatures of the mats topped 165 ...