May 11, 2023 -Lispenard & West Broadway

A man in an olive green t-shirt and black denim jeans wearing Ray-ban sunglasses walks across Beach Street in black and white sneakers that look like Air Force Ones, but no — they’re Diadora, his pant-legs hover over rhe sideways Y. Just then, at Lispenard and West Broadway, a white twelve-passenger van brushes against and exchanges paint with a black BMW X-5. The driver jumps out and screams, “You scratched my car! You scratched my car!” Behind him a symphony of car horns commences —- Get out the way! —- the whole world is trying to get to the Holland Tunnel before sunset. And the traffic lights that turn from red to green do not say “go,”but “inch forward - - . . . try.”