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`The real purpose - the joy - is the friendships
1/4By Anne Robertson. STAFF WRITER Blazing red and blue poles surrounded by yellow hand rails and patches of giant tic-tac-toe squares encapsulate the first fully accessible playground for disabled children in Manhattan, which opened earlier this month at the Asser Levy Recreation Center on East 23rd Street.
"An ongoing concern of ours has been to make city playgrounds accessible to children with disabilities," said Stewart Desmond, a spokesman for the City Parks Foundation. "We've had a fully accessible park in Flushing Meadow, Queens, for a long time and we wanted to create them in Manhattan.We know there's been a demand and...