Thursday was a typical day in New York City (well, if you can call NYC normal), when I left the office, covered my ears with headphones, and proceeded up 9th Avenue for a quick afternoon stroll around the block.
I tend to get lost in my thoughts when I am walking and frequently pay little attention to what is going on around me (this is the same person that walked right smack into the middle of a protest at her University and was smacked in the head with a picket sign in order to realize her surroundings). Anyway, I was walking up 9th Avenue on a busy Thursday afternoon, when I realized that there were several police, an ambulance, a fire truck, and a throng of people (many more than normal) right in front of me. Thankfully, I became aware that something was wrong before the police tackled me for proceeding through the yellow caution tape which barricaded the crime scene. To my horror I saw a very disturbing sight. A homeless woman was lying on the side of the sidewalk dead. How am I sure that she was deceased? Well a few minutes later I walked by that site again and saw the lady being put into an ambulance with the sheets over her head, just like on television. I never heard anything on the news or read anything in the papers regarding this death. It is only October and so far NYC has been experiencing very good weather and warm temperatures. I can’t help but wonder what will happen to all of these people that call the sidewalks, benches and stairs home once the cold winter hits?
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