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Most importantly, a park would be a place close to home where neighborhood kids could safely get together and play after school. That may not sound like a lot, but it’s a stark contrast to where McNeese’s children and others — given no other alternative — have been forced to meet up for a game of catch or to toss a football. “Without a park,” he says, “all the kids are playing in the street. One of the first things I had to teach (my kids) is, if you see a car coming, yell ‘car!’ and everybody immediately get to the sidewalk.”

The love lock bridge stretching over Allen Parkway. For years, lovestruck Parisians and tourists alike had affixed locks, often inscribed with their initials, names or brief messages, to the railing and fencing along Paris’s Pont des Arts, before tossing the keys into the Seine River below. The gesture was said to symbolize a couple’s everlasting love. But beauty ultimately turned to menace and the city’s love affair with the practice soon soured. By 2014, the bridge had become inundated with locks and a section of the railing collapsed under the weight of so many declarations of love. ...