Along Riverside Drive, the graceful curve of a pre-war apartment house overlooking the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
Bishops Crook lampposts and the barren winter trees in the park.
People coming home from work, disembark from the bus and subway.
Pedestrians along Broadway carrying groceries.
Parents walking children home from school.
A benefit to help Darfur at a local synagogue.
Life lived without freeways or McMansions.
How DO they? do it?
Here in Van Nuys 
I miss New York. I used to live on the upper (upper) west side. It’s a fantastic place where I never felt alone and always felt safe because people nearly always populated the streets. It helps in New York, perhaps more than here, to be stinking rich if one likes a decent place to live, however.
We’re getting more densely populated ’round the Valley, and pushing up multi-use buildings signals the transformation of the Valley into an actual city, but will we learn to live with each other or merely crack cars more often?
There’s going to be a very large multi-purpose project going up between Hazeltine and er, Guitar Center on Ventura. Mowing over Barones and building all the way back to Moorpark. But they’re sparing Taco Bell. Thank goodness.
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