15 November 2008 at 16:31
Daily Intel: The Night They Were Dancing in the Streets
excerpts:
“With me in my kerchief and Pa in his cap, we skulked down the street to see what was the hap. As we neared the intersection Metropolitan and Lorimer, none was so telling as a disgruntled Italian dude saying, ‘Don’t bother, it’s just a bunch of drunk hipsters yelling.’”
“All was quiet on the Upper East Side front. But then again, all the residents were weeping over having to pay taxes again.”
“The most moving thing I saw: a black man rushing up on a bicycle and asking an older white bearded guy, ‘Did he get to 270?’ The white guy assured him, ‘Oh yes, he’s at 275 now,’ at which the black guy collapsed in his arms in tears. I don’t even know if they knew one another.”
New York, 17 Nov 2008
