Mahfouz had left behind him, outside the hospital's towering concrete walls, in the streets and alleyways, an increasingly cacophonous crowd of bawabs and neighbors, street venders and hawkers, café patrons, and merely curious passersby, who now mingled with hundreds of uniformed police.
Kabann kreyòl, a normally bustling open-air market with merchants selling hand-made bedroom furniture shouting at passersby, is now a shell of its former self, with only two men left, both of whom have long since lost their gusto.
The lights of the holiday favorite Christmas House at Logan Boulevard and Washtenaw Avenue may have gone dark over the weekend, but passersby will now be treated to a special sight across the boulevards and a block west: a 10-foot "origami" crane made of two-by-fours and bed sheets.
For now, passersby may notice a new look on the windows of both store fronts.
Though random passersby may wander into a Rinsed now and again, the party (and the dedicated trio behind it) is practically a household name to the techno and house-loving Brooklyn crowd.
In keeping with its new street-savvy persona, the C30 has been given attitude and presence –its "face" now seems to scowl at passersby.
He felt more equal now among these people, the shopkeepers, passersby, families.
This particular piece of Deutsche barrier rock was donated by the German government to the international company's founder and now sits out front for curious passersby to examine.
For now we will keep it to stop passersby peering in as above all this is a public space.
