Roxi Sorina’s Death Gothamist picks up my work

http://gothamist.com/2012/05/29/mother_of_pedestrian_killed_at_unio.php

The Gothamist finally recognizes my work but it took a tragic death....Roxi’s.

The Gothamist had my work and this blog, my Mayor Bloomberg King of New York blog, my YouTube work fighting Bloomberg’s third term and my art all blacked out.   I believe I had it out with a gothamist editor although I may be wrong over their coverage of Whole Earth Bakery Rally when again I was blacked out demanding every NYU mega dorm that used the term community facility and excludes the community give us community out reach resource center.

I can’t tell you what community outreach resource center in every mega dorm from every university would do to help the community and make students aware of how much the people here are struggling and they can help.  John Sexton had Alicia Hurley tell me no.


Instead the Gothamist focused on the poser artist -- a middle age fraud brand wannabe that Occupy Wall St. sadly has embraced as well.... The Gothamist and the local corrupt rag didn’t even mention Filomenia Silvestri died at age 94? knowing her son and her Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen were not evicted.  We won...we had a small victory which is so rare in NYC.  Amy Zimmer than of Metro I believe was a key reason we won because of her coverage which I believe got the landlord to back-off.

Truly haunting this entire experience with Roxie who I have never met and her friends.....

Roxie’s friends just riveted me and I had to walk over, photograph them and talk to them.

How haunting really that these beautiful young woman who caught my eye honoring Roxie’s death would == my work covering their grief and anger in all it’s purity would get the Gothamist to finally acknowledge I exist.

I am those young women’s future because I went through what they are going through in the sense I know the loss doesn’t go away.   You think you see them.  You see someone who has some feature or quality.

Just stunned the Gothamist used my photo and credited me and linked to my blog.  They made the photo look a lot better.  The entire experience is kind of shocking....I had decided I had to visit someone in need -- someone quite elderly and it is a huge commute round trip out of state just over the border.  I don’t know why I felt I had to get out at Union Square but I did.  It is very haunting to me considering I went through what Roxie’s friends did.   The deaths didn’t happen in NYC.

Very sad for Roxie and everyone that loved her.

If you saw my post from early today -- I challenge the NYDN coverage because they actually show a photo of a dump truck...the dump truck?  There is the telephone number of the company, there is a police officer and it does look like the scene of Roxie’s death so it is hard to believe the police do not know who is the driver of the truck....

I don’t know.   I am very, very tired....

I think of Roxie and my friends that died too young and remain so as I grow old.   I also think of the photos one of Roxie’s friends showed my on her phone.   They were very close...you could see the love and happy times shared....very, very heartbreaking.

There is a bond -- maybe it’s a girl thing....very very close friendships.

Anyway what a surprise to see the Gothamist picked up my work and posted on their blog...credited me for the photo and refer to my blog post.

Very sad for you Roxie...looking at the photos you were very beautiful and clearly very loved.  I am touched I helped in some small way finding the big tall angel armed man that could tie the memorial up to the pole where the rest of us can’t reach.    Sad to have to tell Roxie’s friends the pain doesn’t go away.

I just feel my friends are with me especially during rough times they are watching out for me.