national guard by 69th regiment armory. lexington avenue. on Flickr.Yesterday afternoon, after my bus issues and long after work told me not to come in, I was itching to get out of Queens. My roommates were planning a walk over the bridge, and I figured I’d join them. It was a surreal day. The swarms of people walking over the Queensborough Bridge reminiscent of the MTA strike a few years back, bumping into a friend randomly at a Starbucks she was powering up at in Upper Midtown, and seeing the National Guard lined up in front of the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue. The other thing is, everyone is talking about the “two cities” which is dead on. It’s a haves versus have-nots scenario. From 39th Street up, it seems like everything is business as usual. Then you see tons of people who walked up from downtown powering up their phones, laptops, getting food, and cherishing heat and electricity. As you walk down, you see a heightened police presence, the street lights are out, bodegas are open but in the dark, many other places are closed, and while the vast majority of people are on their best behavior, there are some people out there that were not.
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national guard by 69th regiment armory. lexington avenue. on Flickr.

Yesterday afternoon, after my bus issues and long after work told me not to come in, I was itching to get out of Queens. My roommates were planning a walk over the bridge, and I figured I’d join them.

It was a surreal day. The swarms of people walking over the Queensborough Bridge reminiscent of the MTA strike a few years back, bumping into a friend randomly at a Starbucks she was powering up at in Upper Midtown, and seeing the National Guard lined up in front of the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue.

The other thing is, everyone is talking about the “two cities” which is dead on. It’s a haves versus have-nots scenario. From 39th Street up, it seems like everything is business as usual. Then you see tons of people who walked up from downtown powering up their phones, laptops, getting food, and cherishing heat and electricity. As you walk down, you see a heightened police presence, the street lights are out, bodegas are open but in the dark, many other places are closed, and while the vast majority of people are on their best behavior, there are some people out there that were not.

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