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September 21, 2010
Atlantic Terminal Mall Really Wishes Teens Wouldn't Hang Out There
The L Magazine
by Mark Asch
More coverage of Bruce Ratner's controversial teen ban.
Bruce Ratner's ugly, stupid Atlantic Terminal mall in downtown Brooklyn, across the street from his ugly, stupid Atlantic Center mall and near the future location of his ugly, stupid Atlantic Yards, is tired of being a mall, apparently, inasmuch as it's recently instituted policies designed to discourage—nay, to prevent—teens from hanging out there.
...Though obviously peevish, impractical, and counterintuitive, these new restrictions seem to me to be something of a gift to Brooklyn teenagers, who live in the capital of the world, after all, and really ought to be hanging out somewhere cooler than the mall, it's not like this is fucking South Portland, Maine, where the Maine Mall's slogan, "Where Else Would You Go?", is hideously, tauntingly appropriate.
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Barring four or more unsupervised 21-year-olds means barring:
Four or more 19-year-olds serving in the US Navy and are on shore leave.
Four or more 18-year-old college freshmen who headed to the mall to share notes after class.
Four or more 20-year-old Suffolk County police officers who must be accompanied by their parents if they want to enter the Atlantic Terminal as a group.
New York Press, The Kids in the Mall
Spurred by an “unauthorized flier on a social-networking site,” which drove thousands of hungry teenagers to descend upon the mall, last year’s violence resulted in at least three injuries.
Since this particular instance of what seems now to be an epidemic of fried-chicken-deprivation-induced madness took place a few blocks from the Terminal, after cops turned the young’ns away, it seems only natural to put these teens out on the streets again. Better they shoot each other outside than spill or drop things inside.
Posted by eric at September 21, 2010 10:19 AM