Yelp reviewers who hate Atlanta’s public spaces
Atlanta doesn’t lack for city pride, so it always stings when an otherwise reasonable person finds fault with one of our city’s jewels. The reviewers on Yelp can be a finicky lot, as Mother Jones discovered last month. Inspired by that magazine’s critical tour of our country’s national parks, we’ve assembled some rather tart takes on our own public spaces.
Oakland Cemetery
Krog Street tunnel
Goat Farm
Stone Mountain
Grant Park
State Capitol
Piedmont Park
Bonus: The Piedmont Park robot bathroom
The self-cleaning bathroom at the park’s Charles Allen Drive entrance has nearly two dozen reviews all in itself. Here are a few of the negative ones.
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Pete Corson is a Presentation Specialist for the Digital Storytellers team and works closely with the Enterprise and Investigative teams. He has worked at the AJC since 1998. He enjoys bringing the best of the paper's journalism to life on your digital devices and finding new ways to tell the stories that make Atlanta unique.
