NP Recalling New York at 4 a.m.

[Carvill John]

>From the Baltimore Sun

Recalling New York at 4 a.m.


By Lia Purpura


September 11, 2006

In the summers during college, I sold coffee from a cart at the corner of 
Wall Street and Broadway, across the street from Trinity Church, just blocks 
from the World Trade Center. I'd get up at 4 a.m., unlatch the five 
deadbolts and walk from the tiny apartment I shared with friends on Avenue C 
to my station.

New York at 4 a.m. (I had to be at the cart by 5) was cool and blue and, 
strangely, finally, at rest. Everything, even in August, seemed breezy and 
fresh-washed that early. The junkies were quiet, and the Bowery was almost 
beautiful after the merciless streetsweeper scraped it raw with brushes and 
disinfectant.


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