I arrived at the bus stop on 7th and 44th, as he passed by hawking tickets to the Comedy Club. His is a difficult job and I had had a difficult day on all levels. For some reason he came over to chat and ask if I wanted to buy a ticket. I told him …
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Whimsey
It began at 4:00 am. By 8:30 am the shouting and banging and loud discussions were completed. The car then sat until 2:30 pm! when the two actors arrived. Hopefully you can see what I see. This was outside my window, and is the set up for a car scene, where you see the occupants …
What If
I don’t pay my ConEd bill as due this month. Here in the City. Are they going to send me the standard email, threatening to cut my service?
Just Like His Mother Did?
The scene caught me by surprise. I was again walking down the tree-shaded lane in the Village but not so late at night this time. As I came to where the bed had been previously, I was distracted by movement on my left. It was a very tall man with his back to me, standing …
Cement
Walking home in the dark, along a tree lined street in the Village, means walking in the shadows at times. All of a sudden I realized that the shadow to my right, was not cast by the tree on my left but was a person bundled up in a dark cover. The sidewalk was narrow …
A Missed Opportunity
He was standing mid block on 10th Street, near the shoe repair shop. As I hurried by, he said, ‘Don’t you have some money for a guy to get something to eat’. It was about 12:30 pm. I had no change, and was too ______ to give him an unbroken $20. But what I could …
More Debris
The Storm brings debris, but the other services get knocked out as well. No garbage pick up for the street containers, and no sweeping of the curbs. These are otherwise, done daily.
Voting Day
Yesterday, I boarded the now infamous M11 going south and walked to the back of the bus, sitting near to two persons having a conversation in Spanish. At the next stop, one of them disembarked and the left-behind-one, moved up the aisle and engaged another passenger in Spanish. As I watched, and the next stop …
The Lines…
…to catch a bus, on 42nd Street, going out of the City, the lines are a City block long, the long side of the block. And it is dark and cold and today snowing! The lines at the subway for the trains that are running. The first line of a conversation, heard repeatedly, “so how …
The Effects continued…
…Students who can’t get to classes in the City because they don’t have a car and there is no public transportation. One student who did make it explained how his life had changed during the power outage. He and his girlfriend spoke about things they never have the time to talk about in their busy …