Why am I so....

excited about traveling through Brooklyn? Let's move back a while. Have been working at Friends for the last four days, and also have one period of work tomorrow. Lots of energy expanded, yesterday, after working there, had three students in two hours. Quite a lot, eh, cityboy? Yet today, able to walk a great deal.
The walk that I am referring to took place around 5:40 P.M. in the darkness as I traveled down Marcus Garvey boulevard, one of the longest north south Bed-Stuy streets. The event that I was going to was a vigil at Gates and Marcus Garvey but it never happened. Still the walk, from Fulton to actually Van Buren and then back to Gates was fascinating. On most of the east west streets that Garvey borders on, lots of beautiful Brownstones from one end of the block to another. Remember that most of those blocks have about six more west-east streets before they meet up with Broadway..
First part of the block, say between Fulton and Halsey has a few signs of gentrification, a yogurt shop and what looks like a new bar, also, somewhat in the middle of nowhere one finds a new Mexican restaurant on one of the corners. However, after Jefferson Street shops seem more to represent the "old" less gentrified Bed-Stuy. Still, streets were for the most part very quiet, not well traveled, and I felt pretty secure. After I saw that the vigil had not developed, thought about following the street all the way north to Broadway, but hunger and need to hit library for computer use, made me jump on the first bus down Gates avenue and take it back to the BAM-Fulton area. And has that area been built up in the past few years. Amazing!
Just heard that Councilman Steve Levin, against the wishes of many of his constituents, has voted for the sale of the Brooklyn Library in Brooklyn Heights to be replaced by. of course, a luxury high rise. Sure, Levin got some "concessions" from the developers, and added a few things that were not there before, but in the main, the developer makes a lot of money from the deal. So we will see how this all plays out, does it mean the end of Levin's political career?  Will he go the way of Christine Quinn..?
Time will tell, it will be interesting to see how the fallout from this commitment by Levin plays out.
Rest will be figured out later....