An eventful morning today. I went out for a walk from my apartment to 125th Street which is the "city center" of Harlem. I took my normal route that I go to work each day - up Lennox avenue right past my deli where I get a hero almost everyday.About 2 minutes before I walked in front of the deli a terrible accident occurred. Someone jumped the curb with their car, struck at least 1 pedestrian and then knocked out the base of the scaffolding which was there.
The entire construction apparatus collapsed sending mountains of steel and cement to the ground. When I rushed up there there were clearly people trapped underneath and about a dozen passersby fanatically trying to hold up steel beams so they wouldn't crush the people below.The rescue squad got there immediately and took away the wounded people. I felt pretty lucky not to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A couple minutes earlier and I certainly would've been dodging a car or construction debris. NY1 has a summary with video
It was a great afternoon besides that. The weather is WARM. I was shocked! The temperature is near 70 and the sun is shining brightly. Just 5 days ago we had a blizzard. The oddest thing was seeing huge piles of snow still on the sidewalk as people wearing shorts strolled by and twisted metal and cement littered the walkway.
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In 1979! when living in New York I loved March when you would get a spring warm up after a big Snow. So you could play in Snow in your Shorts.
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