So why can't a purpose-built frame or set of monkey bars provide all of this?

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Her 8-year-old daughter, Sophia, had broken her arm falling off the monkey bars.

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My daughter always makes room for a child who wants to climb up to the same perch on the monkey bars.

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The sessions I attended, in a room called Brass Monkey (the theme was New York bars), had the aspect of a nerdy summer camp.

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Now owned by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, Monkey Bar seems most likely of all of New York's classic hotel bars to be a destination for people out on the town.

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