Except Saturday night, on busy 23rd Street, an explosion went off around 8:30pm. Nobody saw anything. No cameras caught anything. Ka-BOOM. The bomb was in some kind of dumpster or garbage can. It was set off via a cell phone. All it did was shake the ground and break some glass.
The next day, the useless shit Governor and the useless shit Mayor took a look. All they agree on is they don't like each other. What most everyone else agrees on is there's no reason to like either one of them.
23rd Street is one of the busy cross-streets downtown, along with 14th and 34th. The other streets are one-way; narrow and residential.
Subway stops are on 23rd (and 14th and 34th). Crosstown buses plod back and forth. It's very well lit. The home-made bomb could've been placed in the dumpster most any time, with no surveillance cameras seeming to be glimpsing this very busy block. Restaurants, movie houses, health clubs and other shit are there and on the side streets. Lots of funky joints to buy overpriced drinks. Housing isn't too unreasonable around there.
You're a very short walk from outlet stores loaded with clothing bargains, a variety of thrift shops and flea markets, big organic food supermarkets, and other places that make it a "neighborhood" and not just an area loaded up with office buildings. Even the office buildings have some character. One of 'em is loaded with toy manufacturers.
The bomb went off in front of a huge building that offers housing to the blind. No eye witnesses. The residents sure did hear it. So did the plentiful amount of clowns heading to movies and restaurants and coffee houses.
That building for the blind is very big. Walk around 23rd and 6th, and you're very likely to see a lot of people who can't see you, as they walk around with their canes and their dogs, thinking they're in a very safe part of town.
Naturally the big question was, "OK, who is taking responsibility?"
So far, no assholes from ISIS are. They don't do garbage dump explosions, apparently.
The important thing of course is that if it IS Muslims, to deny it. Wait till the anger ebbs, and then make sure to say it's only one or two malcontents. Make sure to declare that immigrants are wonderful.
Various nuts are making calls but who knows if they are just taking advantage of the chaos. One guy claimed to be an angry fag, tired of how poorly gays are treated. Yeah? So you blow up a dumpster instead of blowing some guy? Sounds a little queer.
These days, various malcontent assholes...gay, black, Latino...are taking a cue from the Muzzies and investigating how easy it is to create home-made bombs, and to make some self-righteous declaration about how justifiable violence is.
Hillary Clinton took this opportunity to show how cool she is. She's telling everyone this is a sorry situation. Trump? He's doing his Mussolini pout and saying, "Another example, people." Meaning, elect me and assholes like this will be arrested and maybe even blown to fucking pieces. Elect Hillary and she'll be tolerant.
As to the high-ranking elected officials, they can't even agree on whether this is "terrorism" or not. In NYC, if somebody blows shit up, it could just be an act of insanity. Or protest. Not "terrorism." So scowling, putty-faced, jowly bug-eyed Cuomo simmers, and the bigger half of the comedy act, De Lousio, just remains his impassive, block-headed cake-faced self.
Is anyone that concerned? Nobody was killed, just 29 injured, and there was no vivid footage of a raging fire, or of bleeding, crying bystanders. So, fuck it.
Eventually somebody will be caught and then it's on to the next incident. Ayyy, it's da city. Ya gotta expect this from time to time. To time. To time.
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