such a long time between posts

 Hard to say why? So many "real" events happening, somehow my dealings with these events diminishes my need to write on this blog. Today a friend is appearing in a play on Theater Row. I have not seen him in awhile, which is why I am going---the play does not interest me at all. I am going to the later performance (8:00) at the producer (playwright's) request. Lots of time to kill before that--not sure how I can do it---also keep my stamina up so that I am not tired by the time of the show. Should not be a problem, since last night I was at a Seder at my relatives' house in Brooklyn and never felt tired. Still, can't exert myself too much. Have to be careful---lots of sports on this afternoon- a possible way to fill up the time.

The facebook page about memories of the Bronx, primarily  from the 40's, 50'and 60's had a post devoted to the section of the Bronx around Southern Boulevard and the 160's, Pictures show a commercial street in what must have been a mostly Jewish neighborhood with stores catering to that population. The neighborhood was working to middle class; the stores all seem fairly prosperous, and yet in ten years they would all be gone. The writers of the posts never talk about experiencing the transition from safe working class neighborhood to a place full of  poverty and crime. When? When exactly did each store close---realize that they could no longer exist in the neighborhood--what was the transition like. No answers. For most of these posters it is as if time stopped after they left. Something about these old neighborhoods (my neighborhood growing up was several miles north of there, and did not experience that kind of transition) and they way of life these posters describe haunts me. 

Yesterday at the Seder a young cousin of mine invited me to a May Day celebration in Bushwick. It is at Maria Hernandez park, a park that in pre pandemic-pre illness times, I frequented or walked through often. Until she mentioned it, I did not think of going, but now I think I will. I can handle it. Two weeks from today.