Word: playground
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...parents have complained about—feces, condoms, tampons, broken glass and even mattresses—are not considered personal belongings, Peterson said, so they are not covered by the city’s homeless policy. All of these items are considered trash and are thrown away when the playground is cleaned five days a week...
Gerlinde Hossain-Endl, director of Bigelow Cooperative Daycare, a daycare center close to the Common, said that the playground is “really popular with neighborhood kids. It’s the central park in Cambridge...
Teachers at the center bring children to play there when weather permits. Jennifer Ering, Bigelow Coop’s assistant director, regularly takes groups of children to the playground and says she worries that the many tourists walking through Cambridge Common get the wrong impression of the city...
While children regularly encounter trash at the playground, she added, discoveries of more dangerous items are “more irregular but enough to be upset about...
Hossain-Endl, Ering, and Stilwell all said they had been in contact with city officials, including the Department of Public Works, to complain about the state of Cambridge Common and the playground. But, they said, the problem has not gotten better...