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I feel like im walking in a hot bath. Reporter or you feel like a marshmallow over a fire. Mushy. Reporter it mayor de blasio a fiveminute walk feel like a twohour journey. Its hard to breathe. Offensively hot. It offends my sensibility that its this hot. Reporter suzanne says she is doing her best to be a considerate new yorker and not overpower the grid. Its game on for this crew. They have been out on the turf for two hours. He is winded of a sprint. Describe the feeling. Its hot. All our feets are burning right now. Reporter they are playing smart soccer to make sure everyone walks off the field feeling okay. For what its worth, we keep refilling our bottles. Keep cool in the shade resting everything 30 minutes or so. Reporter or just take it easy. Avoid exertion. On the weekend, as lonnie said, this heat is here to indices to climb into the weekend so be careful. Take take care of yourself, elderly neighbors, pets and children. Vanessa murdoch, cbs 2 news. Keep it right here with
Problem obviously is not everybody else but most people today cannot be bent on what is going to happen if tomorrow. That is the big problem of any class definition because it means is so fluid that people who were middle class yesterday become workers today or become more and people become more sometimes make it and people who are rich managers find themselves unemployed. It is because the capitalist system has become in essence of global system and that global system will sacrifice every American Life to survive. Thanks to everyone on the panel for coming. They will be signing their books outside. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, to make space for the next panel we need to completely clear the room and the elevator lobby outside the room, thank you. The others will be outside. We have to completely [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] now more from brooklyn, writing about cities. Yes, please, thank you. Good afternoon, welcome to this discussion, waiting about plays in
Yes, i could. Well, this city is this all right . Isnt working . Louder. Can you hear me now . The idea of the walker in the city, the one who is walking without purpose, the one who is walking in order to absorb the city in order to understand oneself better. That is a tradition which goes back to the 19th century, and one that i consciously took upon myself to enter and to join. It is also true that its very rare that any woman has taken place in that urban literature. The walker in the city who walks aimlessly and get with the deeper purpose. Thats how i saw myself, and that person is inevitably a Single Person, whether in actuality, but certainly in spirit. So that is of the essence. And in my case that singleness of life became my life, and i wanted to use it in order to show how quoteunquote people like me use the city. Is that an answer . Okay. Moving onto david ulin. You may read his writings in the Los Angeles Times. Is a book critic for the Los Angeles Times and hes a chronic
Castillos death, people have been asking why it is Still Standing here. Five days after the 16yearold tumbled seven stories to his death inside of an elevator shaft in the abandoned Staten Island hospital and after his grieving father demanded answers i want the truth. Reporter a permit has been issued for the buildings demolition. Why they wait till something happen to take it out . They should take it out before. Reporter tuesday cbs 2 news asked the Staten Island borough president that very question, why were he and his friends able to access the building . We pushed to have this eyesore become something thats a positive for the community. Reporter but there was no security . Yeah thats a tragedy. Reporter and he says ownership of the structure was in legal limbo, stalling any action. Officials with the Citys Department of buildings say the abandoned site is owned by Shore Holdings uk which list island law firm. There was a building that had a demolition order issued by the city mon