4 posts tagged “brooklyn”
I witnessed a really ignorant tourist interaction with a local when I took the Air Train from JFK.
In this picture below - I am sitting across from this tourist who is sitting in the most unsightly manner. The black kid sitting next to me saw this guy's wallet fall out of his pocket. His two friends didn't tell him. It was pretty obvious all 3 of them were drunk.
So the kid said,"Sir, your wallet - it's out."
The guy's friend says, "you mind your own business - there's no money in it and who's gonna rob us - you?" Then the guy across me picks up his wallet and says,"who is going to mess with us?"
I was so disgusted at how they reacted. The kid was a being a good new york citizen by warning them that they should be careful with their items - and they blow him off and assume that the kid had motivations to rob them.
I looked over at the kid and said, "those guys might actually get jumped just because they are assholes"
I've never seen the unemployment line this far at the Brooklyn downtown office on Fulton. The line starts from inside and snaked down the block.
I walked to housing works and found a spanish copy of Octavio Paz! And it just so happened to be around happy hour on a rainy nyc day - so the bar wasn't too crowded. It was lit enough for me to read and dark enough to transition me into the night soul.
I have a special relationship with the Q Train - I just love it! When they were doing construction a few years ago, it was the only train that crossed the Manhattan Bridge. I love the feeling of coming into and leaving the city. I especially love it at night time after a long day of work in the city, and taking the train over the bridge into brooklyn.
I love Prerana's place- she has one of the best apartments in brooklyn - she has a complete view of the sky!!! AND a little garden space AND she doesn't live on the 1st floor. For all your urbanites you do understand how rare this is right?
Plus - their's always amazing snackie bits from Lebanon and India - and great conversation. I learn more about how much I don't know of the Middle East - and I tell Prerana more anout the techie world - perfect brooklyn night :)
