The sound of silence: Why Bloomberg had to endorse Obama

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The sound of silence: Why Bloomberg had to endorse Obama

Manhattan’s trademark is its busyness, its height, its scale. Manhattan, apart from the city at large and apart from nearly everywhere else in the world, is a symbol of mania, a thicket of stacks of people working and living. Manhattan is a target center of information and culture that thrives on a million overlapping pulses that build and cancel like ripples. There is nowhere like it. Usually. I used to live near Chinatown, just above downtown Manhattan at the island’s lower tip. Chinatown is mostly low buildings, three or four stories, meaning that its activity spills onto the streets. Vendors and hustlers and tourists crowd sidewalks, bargaining and buying and trying frustratedly to get by. Many of the residents of Chinatown are poor; our apartment just off Canal Street was directly above an apartment of the same size that housed four times as many people, in little cub...

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@ghanscom » 02 Nov '12, 5pm
@pbump's postcard from a disaster -The sound of silence: Why Bloomberg had to endorse Obama [link] Strong work.
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@j_zimms » 02 Nov '12, 3am
@kissane I thought @pbump did a great job of "there has always been inequality in the city, but this makes it stark" [link]
@lsach » 02 Nov '12, 2am
super RT @pbump Here's my overview write-up of my trip into lower Manhattan, looping in Bloomberg for good measure. [link]
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«The problems caused by Sandy are myriad (...) But the worst problem was the people I didn’t see» @pbump on Bberg+Obama [link]
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RT @grist: The sound of silence: Why Bloomberg had to endorse Obama [link]
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RT @j_zimms: Here's what @pbump learned from traversing downtown NYC today. Thoughtful and sobering. [link]
@j_zimms » 02 Nov '12, 12am
Here's what @pbump learned from traversing downtown NYC today. Thoughtful and sobering. [link]
@Orchard_Thieves » 02 Nov '12, 12am
RT @pbump: Here's my overview write-up of my trip into lower Manhattan, looping in Bloomberg for good measure. [link]
@pbump » 02 Nov '12, 12am
Here's my overview write-up of my trip into lower Manhattan, looping in Bloomberg for good measure. [link]
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RT @pbump: Here's my overview write-up of my trip into lower Manhattan, looping in Bloomberg for good measure. [link]
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RT @pbump: Here's my overview write-up of my trip into lower Manhattan, looping in Bloomberg for good measure. [link]
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