water main break yesterday 5th Ave. underscores the point of my email yesterday to NYer mag and newspaper

I wrote this darkly humorous -- well barely humorous piece, well there was no humor but it is almost oddly funny I did get to confront the mayor on the radio -- I mean what are the chances I would get through...?  The same with the "chat" on the steps of City Hall.  Thinking back even Amanda Burden picking up the phone when I called although she ended up being down right nasty when I answered her question about how many 2 and 3 story buildings are there on 12th Street and I answered her and explained anything taller was from the industrial era except for the The New School Mega dorm and the NYU mega dorm at 12th and 3rd Avenue.  That was before she and the mayor allowed St. Ann's to be torn down for yet another hideous mega dorm.

I  emailed it to The New Yorker and all the newspapers... Dear David: There is this perpetual hope for some David to conquer the Goliath and in NYC there are so many Goliaths...or godzillas, etc.

The stadium that Babe Ruth did not build, welcome to the New hideous New York! attention David Remnick...I mention such lively interactions as confronting the mayor on the John Gambling  show about NYU mega dorming the East Village to death, I forgot our brief chat on the steps of City Hall, my call to the environmental crime dept at the State Attorney's office that had me coordinating a chat with him and Andrew Berman about St. Ann's.  Andrew has revealed the illegal air sale by the USPS  under  the Pataki administration so I gave it a go under the new administration.

I wrote about the Stadium that Ruth didn't build and that tax payers hugely did as a metaphor for the new New York --  these tax paying fans can't even afford to go to the new Yankee Stadium...etc. etc.  I referenced Juan Gonzalez's article in The New York Daily News which you can find posted on this blog or on their website...(I am so tired I can barely keep my eyes open and my stomach hurts!)

...and I mentioned the NYPD, aprox 37, 000 policing aprox 8 million people plus and yes, when they make a mistake like a doctor someone might die but for shockingly lowest starting salary in the new New York (new economy of mega wealth)-- they seem way too small in number -- I wish they could be given better resources for their "policing" this big crazy city but today I just learned they are going to get a raise that stills puts them lower than other police forces and even worse they have to sacrifice vacation time -- which is wrong. 

  I wrote about about so much more but I am so tired...have to rest now.

oh and of course I wrote about....

and of course I mentioned above ground -- construction/scaffolding deaths and injuries and below -- infrastructure related deaths and injuries and more infrastructure breaks are to come that look like terror attacks....I am know I have been told "I'm a glass half empty girl" -- note: I am five years older than than the guy that told me that...and after I sent the email we get a big nasty water main break on 5th Avenue...

...scary tired...