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"At first, I thought it was kids going to school, but I got up and saw the grandmother and her granddaughter running up the street barefoot".
"They're causing a lot of trouble," said Helen Smith, 52, a charity worker, pushing her baby granddaughter down St. James Street.
She says she is delighted that her granddaughter decided to forsake Wall Street for Ditmas Park.
In the audience, Maritza Sabio, who lives around the corner on 118th Street, watched her granddaughter, Chaelyn, 4, scatting for the first time.
"People gonna rise like the water We're gonna calm this crisis down I hear the voice of my great granddaughter Saying shut down Wall Street now!" The tone of the crowd, while still playful and creative, was clearly more confrontational than Day 1.
"There is nowhere around here for a kid to play soccer or chess," said Yusaima González, 22, Ms. Martínez's granddaughter, of the noisy warren of streets where she lives.
Gurtha Cole, 80, lives with her 38-year-old granddaughter in a building across the street from the home of Mr. Franklin, who the police say worked as a mechanic for the city's Department of Transportation.
Ethel Moore, who lived in the apartment with her 21-year-old granddaughter, was visiting a friend across the street when the fire broke out.
I dedicated my book Wealth Without Wall Street, A Main Street Guide to Making Money, to Al, my granddaughter Adelaide and my fiancée Karen Thomas.
Instead, they cherish their four younger children and their granddaughter; they work; they wait to hear which street in Howell will be named for their eldest.
