Permit Process Leaves Low-Income Toddlers with Empty Playground

“Storyteller Children’s Center, which provides early childhood education and much more to children living below the poverty line, has been struggling for months to obtain the city’s approval to install a toddler playground it procured with grant funding. Despite best intentions and efforts, its attempts to move forward have been stymied, and with the old, dated equipment demolished, the children are left with an empty playground.”