Pandemonium on Houston Street. Things sounded strange when sirens wouldn’t stop as I headed from the Film Forum (where I’d just seen the transcending Into Great Silence) down to the Chinatown YMCA. Houston was blocked off south of Lafayette with an army of emergency response vehicles and a platoon of firemen and police doing a minimal job of keeping the public from going where they damn well please.
Seems a derelict building slated for the wrecking ball did the job itself, the second time within a week in this city. No one was hurt and it gave pause to think as I pass by this place all the time on my way to the pool. It gives me great pleasure to be on foot while traffic is backed up to hell, and while the whole even had the air of some great disaster it seemed like a lot of overkill, but safety first in this city, which is of course understandable.
Seems a derelict building slated for the wrecking ball did the job itself, the second time within a week in this city. No one was hurt and it gave pause to think as I pass by this place all the time on my way to the pool. It gives me great pleasure to be on foot while traffic is backed up to hell, and while the whole even had the air of some great disaster it seemed like a lot of overkill, but safety first in this city, which is of course understandable.
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