Greenpoint parents offended by the notion of a kiddie 'fight club' are squaring off against parents offended by those who take offense
Zack squares off in the playground. Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland On a sweltering June day, a welter of yelps rose from the playground in the northeastern corner of Greenpoint’s leafy, tidy McGolrick Park. The playground had been lined with a sturdy foam in 2018 to soften the landings of children. But there were still injuries to be had.
For her part, Kang worried that her children, who saw the tussling, might feel scared. “I’m all for kids wrestling and having some fun,” she wrote. “My kids do it at home all the time, but watching this full on fight fest was very jarring and something I wouldn’t want my kids to witness.” Kang ended her post with the suggestion that “maybe the parents involved can take the kids to a grassy area instead. There’s plenty of room at McGolrick.
Zack and Aaron, fight-clubbers. Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland And so it went. Parents offended by the notion of a fight club squared off against parents offended by parents offended by the notion of a fight club. It was an ouroboros of parental opinion. What was clear was that, whatever your private parental choices are, about roughhousing or 10,000 other things, in a public park, that choice will itself be subject to endless other parental choices.
It was 2:45 p.m. when I pushed open the creaky gate of the playground to meet Julie Wilson, wearing a black tank top and khaki scrubs with her curly hair tied back. Though she grew up in Manhattan, Wilson has a bit of a “mayor of Greenpoint” air about her, knows everyone, has an opinion on most things. Her son, Zack, as she mentioned in the Facebook group, is a part of the fight club, whose total membership, according to Wilson, amounts to fewer than ten.
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