greetings from the...

Bronx. Here is Bronx Central Library on Kingsbridge Road---after a session (and a very productive one) on Gun Hill Road. Walked all the way west on Gun Hill to Jerome (quite a hike!) then south on Jerome (seems to be millions of  99 cent stores on that block) until Bedford, to get a nice BLT at the one diner around there that I really like. Very crowded and frenetic place, yet were able to bring me a blt and coffee with great service. Left a very generous tip. Could hardly walk after that, but took number 2 bus about six blocks to Kingsbridge and the Concourse and then walked southeast to library. From the window one can see the old Central Library a block away on Bainbridge Avenue. That is the library that I went to often when I was attending Bronx Science. Memories of the Bronx then, a time when it was mostly white. Most of the areas I traveled in today where all black and hispanic---basically all working class. Gentrification in the Bronx.../ Don't bet on it---it still seems a long way away. Will probably return to the apartment after this is over, then not sure what will happen after that.
Yesterday night: respected my need to see a movie, saw Brooklyn at the AMC Lincoln Square, a movie factory that is packed for the Saturday 7 o clock or thereabouts show. Movie starts out slow and is very deliberate, but is really meaningful as it moves towards it ending. Left feeling very moved as the heroine has to decide which of the two men who want her she will return to (it is the fifties, so moving on without either of them is not a possibility---still, there are hints of her individual strength towards the end of the movie.
Experience itself was strange and a little alienating---too tired to find a bar to hang out in afterwards, went to sleep quickly, but felt a little barren this morning. A play or any live performance is still more meaningful to me than a movie. Yet I want and need to see several more. Today..not sure, time is running out on the Frederick Wiseman doc In Jackson Heights, though I don't know if today is the right time to see it. Well, we will just take it as it comes.
Rest of day not clear---some good football games on at 4 o'clock, but must go to an all sports bar to see them. That, a movie, South Fourth...? Lots of unanswered questions, as we wend our way to the evening...