night? Absolutely nothing! Tired after two sessions, returned home and decided to stick it out there. Wanted very much to visit the twins (wiatresses) at Lansdowne Road, but the cold was overpowering---if it was around 60, I might have found a way to go---and fatigue was setting in. Rested, read a little bit of the Bernhard Schlink novel--kind of a half mystery-half romance---enjoyable---and fell asleep.
Hopefully this evening will be a little more animated---really must move around, or see a movie or do SOMETHING.
Just got a post from my friend Michael about an anti gentrification conference in the Bronx on Sunday afternoon. I think I will try to go. I would like to see what is happening there, how the community groups envision the "onslaught" of gentrification. From my point of view, it will be very different from that of Brooklyn. Much slower, if at all. Why? I think the vision of poverty and of people of color, maintaining their space is much more defined in the Bronx. It is a different zeitgeist!
Will I be right? Maybe Sunday's event will reveal more facts---important to get the vision of people already living there-involved in the struggle. The event is right off Fordham Road, near the former Alexander's--a well known clothing store that remained in the Bronx, probably until the eighties. A place that I was taken to often as a child. Similarly the streets that surround the meeting house---they resonate with me---I could have had friends there, growing up as a child.Not far from the old Bronx Science, the one that was abandoned in the spring of 59---I spent half a year there--then went to the "new" building. The Bronx always evokes these kind of memories---a very different world now---well, we will find out all about it on Sunday.
That is all for now---will report tomorrow.
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