Hi, Kathleen,
All you have to do is j
ust say something like "that's your opinion but don't keep lecturing
me". or something like that. Be diplomatic about it though.
Rosie
On 9/21/2016 1:12 PM, Kathleen Polkabla wrote:
I just don't like this friend lecturing me. Even if I have differing views than he does he lectures me like were in a classroom. And I'm really getting tired of it. I mean he help me get the right ham radio and stuff like that but he even lectured me about that too. He told me which one to get and no other. I mean he lectures all the time but yet he says were friends. I really don't know what to think about him. But as far as voting I'll make that decision when the day comes. Onto another subject though another friend of mine called me and he said they're looking for two more people that have a suitcase they were suspicious. I guess they got the wrong person for the bombing but then again who knows. But hey what can you do. I was just saying I just don't like this person lecturing me all the time and he even lectured me and said I shouldn't get a radio with dials on it either. He said I should buy an HD radio. And I really don't know what to do about him.
Kathleen Polkabla
On Sep 21, 2016, at 1:31 PM, SHARON CONKLING <SHARONCONK@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:SHARONCONK@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Well, I guess you won’t like me. I am a republican but I vote for the right person. This time I am not sure who that is, lol.
Sharon and Pearl
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Amen to that, Karen. Just because republicans believe differently, that doesn't make them communists.
Rosie
On 9/21/2016 7:37 AM, Karen Delzer wrote:
Well, goodness, Kathleen, there are a lot of us who are "typical
republicans," and listen to Rush Limbaugh and make no apologies
for that. We're nice people, I promise. We just believe
differently than you. And, part of being republican or
conservative or whatever label you choose does not mean by any
stretch of the imagination that we are communists, just the
opposite, in fact. So no worries there, either. :)
Karen
on 11:50 PM 9/20/2016, Kathleen Polkabla said:
Thank you for sending this article it was good. Wow. I think
I'm glad I wasn't there. Oh boy. And I had thought about
going there Saturday to visit people. I think I'm glad I
didn't. Because I would've been stranded over there and I
couldn't of gotten back to Stuyvesant town. What a mess. You
know that's pretty lucky that's not not more damage has been
done to the building. But they've got a repair all those
windows and that's going to be costly. 15 apart apartments.
And thank goodness Malibu donated food. And the Red Cross
helped out and I think they were paid. And our mayor even
came to. Even though one of my friends in Ohio keeps
insisting he's a communist and he keeps stressing New York.
It's a typical Republican that listens to Rush Limbaugh and
stuff. And I'm really getting tired of him trashing people
that aren't Republican. It's really crazy. I hope I don't
have to end the friendship with him but I might have to.
Kathleen Polkabla
On Sep 21, 2016, at 12:20 AM, Devon Wilkins
<theharness@xxxxxxxx <mailto:theharness@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Thanks, Nancy. I have just forwarded this to a friend of
mine in Fresno who used to live in New York City. Devon.
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*Subject:* [ourplace] Bomb Rattles Nerves but Strengthens
ties at Building for Blind
Some of you may not know, but the bomb that exploded on
saturday night in the middle of New York City was very
close to an apartment building where a lot of blind
people live. I thought you’d find this article interesting.
Bomb Rattles Nerves but Strengthens Ties at Building for
Blind. By ANNIE CORREAL, SAMANTHA SCHMIDT and LIAM STACK;
Jack Begg contributed research.. Roselyn Olivares was
standing in her kitchen when she heard the explosion. A
living room window cracked. Glass shattered in the
bedroom. Ms. Olivares, who is blind, called out to her
partner, asking her to peer outside their living room
window, which overlooks West 23rd Street in Chelsea.
'Tell me what you see,' Ms. Olivares, 76, said.. Over the
course of the next few minutes, her partner, Carol
Wixman, described firefighters and police officers
flooding the scene and a woman running down the street,
screaming. For anyone on West 23rd Street, the explosion
Saturday night was jarring. But for the residents of
Selis Manor, a building directly behind the Dumpster
where the bomb exploded, the blast and the drama that
ensued were particularly terrifying: Like Ms. Olivares,
most of the building's residents are blind or otherwise
visually impaired. 'If you don't see, and you hear
something like that, it's scary,' Ms. Olivares said. 'You
don't know which way to go. She quickly got dressed,
wondering if she would have to run, dreading that her
building might collapse. (Residents were soon ordered to
stay inside.) She said she heard so many sirens, so many
loud sounds, that she began to feel sensory overload.
Selis Manor, a 205-unit apartment building at 135 W. 23rd
Street, was built by Irving M. Selis, a blind newsdealer,
and opened in 1980. In the decades since, it has helped
turn a small slice of Manhattan into something of a haven
for the blind and visually impaired. The building has
been under renovation since 2014 and is partly covered in
scaffolding. On Saturday night, a device placed under a
Dumpster on the eastern side of the building exploded,
bursting windows and spewing glass and shrapnel that
injured 29 people. The blast, called 'an intentional act'
by Mayor Bill de Blasio, is still under investigation.
There were no reports of injuries among the building's
residents, according to its managing agent, Tony
Savarese, but the force of the explosion shattered
windows as high as the third floor, broke a door frame
and obliterated a security camera perched above the
entrance. It also rattled residents of Selis Manor.
Andrew Atell had just left home when the device
detonated. 'Luckily I walked under the scaffold and I was
almost at the end of the block when I heard a pretty loud
boom,' he said. 'I just see a little bit. I have some
sight and walk with a cane. It was a big boom. One loud
boom. And then stuff started flying. 'I heard the blast,
and I heard little things coming down,' he said. 'I don't
know if it was glass or metal. It sounded like little
pieces of glass. Mr. Atell, 63, hurried to an F train
station. 'Down in the subway, I heard someone was trying
to help somebody injured,' he said. 'I didn't stop. I got
on the train. No sense in turning back. He went to
Brooklyn and returned around midnight to find that he
could not get back to his building: The block had been
closed. He waited at a McDonald's and was escorted home
by law enforcement officials around 3 a.m. If the blast
interrupted what residents described as a peaceful
routine, it also activated the close-knit community at
Selis Manor. 'I went out to other people on the floor and
said, 'What happened? What happened? Jit Bhattacharyya
said. Mr. Bhattacharyya, 70, is visually impaired and has
lived in the building for 25 years. He had been waiting
for an Indian program to come on TV when he 'felt it and
I jumped,' he said. 'My knee hit the table. I have never
heard such a loud noise in my life. It felt like thunder
was coming through the window. He called the lobby and
went to a neighbor with a seeing home health attendant.
On Sunday, residents with seeing-eye dogs welcomed visits
from dog walkers, to whom they recounted the night's
events. Kathy Mulvaney, 73, said just as the explosion
happened, her seeing-eye dog, a collie named Bella, had
been curled up on a reclining chair. The dog immediately
jumped off and crawled to her owner's side. 'She knew
something was wrong,' Ms. Mulvaney said. Ms. Mulvaney has
lived in the building for 32 years, and has been blind
for several decades and has chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease and asthma. The worst part of the explosion, she
said, was the uncertainty. 'There was nobody around to
tell us anything,' she said while sitting on her living
room couch in her nightgown, clutching her cane. The
elevators were briefly shut down, so it was difficult for
residents to visit neighbors and discuss what was
happening. Ms. Mulvaney stayed glued to the radio,
listening for updates. On Sunday, her dog walker, Karin
Magnuson, a volunteer through PAWS NY, arrived to take
Bella out. Ms. Magnuson led Bella and a black lab named
Ava, her usual charges, through the lobby, which was
crowded with people waiting for police clearance to get
out, and past the scene of the explosion, where
investigators were placing numbers beside pieces of
shrapnel and other evidence. 'I took the dogs for a walk
and then made my way back through the barricades,' Ms.
Magnuson said. One of the main hangouts for Selis Manor's
residents is the Malibu Diner, just down the block. 'We
have menus in Braille, but the people don't use them
because they know the menu better than me,' said Jose
Collado, one of the diner's owners. 'This is like their
home. On Sunday morning, the street was closed to traffic
and swarming with law enforcement officials, and the
diner was closed. But as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mr. de
Blasio took a walk around the site, they asked Mr.
Collado to open his restaurant to serve the residents of
Selis Manor, who had been told to stay put. 'The blind
people said if we didn't open, they couldn't eat,' Mr.
Collado said. He went into the kitchen and, with the help
of two employees, prepared 200 orders of eggs, bacon,
ham, sausage and toast. The Red Cross helped with
delivery. Mr. Collado was not sure who would be footing
the bill, but he said, 'Sometimes money is the least of
your worries. He said the restaurant would be preparing
breakfast for the building's residents again on Monday..
PHOTOS: Above, a resident of Selis Manor being escorted
back to the building on West 23rd Street by a police
officer on Sunday. Left, seeing-eye dogs that live at the
residence, which is home to many people who are blind or
visually impaired. An explosion on Saturday night
occurred outside. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY LOUIS LANZANO FOR THE
NEW YORK TIMES; KARIN MAGNUSON).
