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Article: Strawberry Fields--Forever? Potholed Plot Jolts My Mom!(The City)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2006
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Byline: Ralph Gardner Jr.
As I've been waiting for the right occasion to call 311, the Mayor's complaint hotline, and it came when my mother recently almost took a header out of her wheelchair in Central Park.
Let me explain. She was feeling rather depressed, so I thought a visit to Strawberry Fields for some people-watching might brighten her mood. But the path leading through the John Lennon memorial was so pitted and potholed, it took all my dexterity to prevent her from falling out of her conveyance.
The inexplicable, entirely unacceptable thing is that the path has been this way for years. It makes no sense. The rest of Strawberry ...