This is a photo of the front door of our building this morning. I think our neighbors are excited, for some reason. We stayed up to watch the big speech, in part because it was too hard to sleep with the excitement and the honking, shouting and other loud expressions of joy outside our apartment. Michael wandered outside at one point to take a look and caught a black woman estatically greeting those exiting the subway with the words, “You’ve got a black president!” Indeed.
This is video taken in Harlem by a co-worker’s significant other. (Thx, Apostolia!)
[…] a water feature in summer, and a wide, open yard for scootering, soccer and baseball. Michael and I stayed up late one November night in 2008, and heard the shouts of excitement on the streets when it was announced […]