Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
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"What also stood out to me was at one point lower Manhattan was without power. I remember being on that shuttle bus going through lower Manhattan from the Barclays center in Back trying to get to work and it was dead silence...no foot traffic, storefronts and buildings were eerily devoid of activity. Cell service was ****. It looked like those post Apocalypse films but all the buildings were inact ayet lifeless. And like the just position of affluence and poverty separated by the crossing of the street, when the bus hit the first block with power it was like regular NYC affair. I didn't think that nothing could stand out more...but I was wrong.
A trip through unlit downtown Manhattan did the trick by foot that night. I was trying to track down the old chess master out of concern and walking down Park Avenue South in veiled darkness was even more eerie than the bus ride. It didn't get much better after I passed Union Square, Broadway was pretty dark - as dark as I remember strolling through the countryside of St. Elizabeth on summer nights as a child. You know, that kind of darkness where you only get to see ten feet in front of you and your flashlight gets swallowed in the light. The only difference here was that instead of being flanked by bushes on either side, unlit and unoccupied buildings provided the backdrop. I did run into the ocassions restaurant open and serving people candelight (closer to Union Square), but it was desolate.
I got to the Brooklyn Bridge, and made my way across. The bridge was literally half lit: the Brooklyn side had power and I stopped at the line of where darkness met light on the bridge and looked back to see that dark desolate view of lower Manhattan: cold, imposing, seemingly rife with the stuff that was scare kids straight late at night."
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