On the pavement, down the road from the Afro Plus hairdresser, steamrollers press down fresh tarmac, and lamp-posts are being freshly painted.
Over the summer, the stretch of Broadway from Times Square to Herald Square was repaved to accommodate a bike lane and a pedestrian walkway, stripping the pavement down to the cobblestones.
As I was about to unlock my door, I realized that she was still standing on the pavement, looking down.
They hid themselves in a young woman in pink household slippers, sprawled on the pavement, taken down while fleeing.
Only a few years ago this stretch of pavement looked down over huge dilapidated warehouses that covered several waterfront piers extending to the north and south.
Stein crouched on the pavement, jotting down notes for her speech, while eight performers holding hoops festooned with plastic garbage bags to look like jellyfish danced to some baleful polka music and explained how the jellyfish were like toxic assets.
Others protesters from the art activist group Liberate Tate tip their buckets forward too, spilling the thick brown-black liquid across the pavement and down the steps to the party entrance (watch the video above).
Sometimes he succeeded, as when he describes the euphoric crowds at a baseball game, or when he catches a glimpse of "A big young bareheaded woman/in an apron" on the pavement, bending down to remove a nail from her shoe.
In January, China Daily highlighted the need for better protection for Good Samaritans in China with an anecdote: After falling in a downtown street and lying on the cold pavement, face down, for half an hour, during which no passers-by moved to help him, an 83-year-old man died.
"Ascot now welcomes the racegoer as a customer more than a complete inconvenience or something stepped in on the pavement," adds Down.
In September, the bridge will be repaired, the road will reopen, the cars will flood back, lining the pavements, belting down the street.
