Hi, Kathleen,
Why do you pay attention to this guy? The more you pay attention to him,
the more he'll lecture you. Sometimes it's better just tolet a person
talk and get it out of their system. That's how I handle my next-door
neighbor. Lately we've been getting along pretty good.
Rosie
On 9/21/2016 10:07 AM, Kathleen Polkabla wrote:
Well my friend Ray Mahorney said that New York City should succeed from the union and he said that our mayor was a communist. Anytime I don't agree with him I get a lecture like you're in a classroom. I told him I said I thought we were supposed to be friends I don't need a lecture. I Ninos crazy. Then he was trying to tell me how I should how I should vote and all that stuff. I mean I think I can make my decisions in terms of voting and I told him I don't appreciate being lectured.
Kathleen Polkabla
On Sep 21, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Karen Delzer <catwacky@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:catwacky@xxxxxxxxxxx>> 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).
