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On the whole, the public facilities the city built and repaired were not evenly distributed throughout its neighborhoods. New Deal funds made public facilities available only to New York's majority of white citizens. Robert Moses created dozens of playgrounds in Riverside Park, but he built none in the park north of 125th Street until La Guardia finally convinced him to build at least one park in Harlem. He consented, but built no more than one. Because of the number of parks near them, children who lived in predominantly white neighborhoods could play in water from fountains, not fire hydrants, and could run on expanses of grass rather than down alleyways. The city gave the children of Harlem no places to play, which made vivid to the people of Harlem how much the city did not care about them.
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Early New York