I'm a republican too so I don't think she would like me either.
On 9/21/2016 10:31 AM, SHARON CONKLING 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
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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).
