We take the staircase to the first floor
We turn the key and slowly unlock the door
A man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside it's America
Outside it's America
-- "Bullet the Blue Sky" by U2
Downtown New Albany's ongoing revival is profiled in a Business First article from July 29.
Historic downtown New Albany comes back to life with new shops, restaurants opening in wake of Scribner Place’s arrival, by Sarah Jeffords Pister (Business First)When it comes to whoppers, questioning eases stress, and so one's first query of the deputy mayor should be this: Which Europe? NAC provided one such answer, a full two week's prior to the Business First reference.
"(River View) is going to be a public space we think will be on the order of a square or plaza you typically see in Europe,” (Carl) Malysz said.
Stop the presses: Exciting new plan for Trickle Platz at River View.
We also offered a vision of Reaganomics Platz with a human face:
Come to think of it, no one connected with River View ever so much as attempted to modify the unfortunate analogy wherein the benefits would "trickle out" to the community at large.
Any of them want to give it a belated shot? We're all ears.
Charles Dickens from American Notes for General Circulation
ReplyDelete"...on ground so flat and low and marshy, that at certain seasons of the year it is inundated to the house tops, lies a breeding place of fever, ague, and death. A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away: cleared here and there for the space of a few yards; and teeming, then with rank unwholsesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, and lay their bones, the hateful river circling and eddying before it, and turning off upon its southern course a slimy monster hideous to behold; a hotbed of disease, an ugly sepulcher, a grave uncheered by any gleam of promise; a place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it."