My, this is lovely. Air conditioned, confirmation number given, and connected a marked contrast to my last intercity hop. ( Riding the Chinatown bus from DC to Philly was painful, )

Two days ago one of my coworkers saw a police car knock over a motorcycle with a man and woman on it. Then the officers got out and started beating the man. From what my coworker said the man was Latino and not obviously aggravating the police. Maybe he had been running away ( Read more... )

My first July in the city I was alone on a rooftop, my second I was in a crowd huddling under umbrellas, gossiping, giggling socializing on a friend's patio, and the third?  Again in the rain this time we went to an industrial alley in Greenpoint, and I stood gently by a friend of six years-- a renewed friendship-- as we watched the spectacle ( Read more... )

On Monday there was a shooting starting at Marcus Garvey Park and running up Lenox Avenue in Harlem. Six kids were shot in this spree and four more were injured in other incidents around the same time. It feels incongruous with the neighborhood as I've known it in the brief two years I've lived nearby. I've walked that street at night and gone ( Read more... )

Yesterday I pinned on my Obama button and joined other supporters up in Harlem to register voters.  I drifted briefly from team to team deciding that a pair or trio of white people in Harlem would be regarded with more suspicion than a mixed group and ended up with two beautiful ladies who could have almost been twins.  They were within a year of ( Read more... )

I went on a walk through central park yesterday and it's the season.

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