a sad story...

I experienced yesterday, my first day of non work at Friends. With a lot of time on my hands, I decided to use the bank branch in Bed-Stuy for some banking. It is on Bedford and Fulton Street. After I did my banking, and had a nice tuna fish sandwich at the Corner Grind (Bedford and Jefferson) I took the 25 bus back to the Gotham Market. What did I see as the bus moved west? At least three empty block long spaces on which will soon be built more luxury housing. Its amazing! A whole neighborhood reconstructed with most of the housing being for the wealthy. It is like watching a juggernaut take the place of everything that was there in the past. What a frightening message this sends to the "average" New Yorker.  And how can this homeless crisis which so dominates the talk of the city be solved if the real estate industry cannot be kept in check. Hopefully the next mayor will have a different vision then the current one, and the next City Council members will be free of real estate money. Maybe then we can see some change. Anyway, those are my feelings about this crisis.
  Not much else to report--- last Saturday seems like a long way away---I saw a very tepid play at Abrons Arts---supposedly about race, but which largely avoided the problem. I was really disappointed by this. Still, I wanted to see it. Today, with no work and just a Friends basketball game in the afternoon, I thought of seeing the Pink Chair, a tribute to a major Polish theater director by the Wooster Group. Went to TDf, looked at it, reasonable price, but simply could not pull the trigger. So I am not sure what I will do after the game, with plenty of time on my hands.
  Since I am at Lincoln Center Library, after I finish at the computer, I hope to look at some commentary of Timon of Athens, the play that I saw at TFANA last Friday. Should be interesting, will report soon.