NY Times writer spends election night in Detroit
New York Times writer decides to spend election night in Detroit.Excerpt:After driving down Woodward Avenue, we dropped Marian’s Explorer at
our hotel, then walked to Harmonie Park, a small, recently gentrified,
triangular neighborhood near the baseball stadium. At Lola’s,
our favorite restaurant, the headwaiter said he felt like a kid on
Christmas Eve, giddy with anticipation but afraid that he might wake up
and be disappointed. A customer said she was on pins and needles, and
her friend expressed the hope that Barack Obama would improve the
country’s image abroad and “not just help the rich but the people who
are really struggling.” An older man in gold earrings and a porkpie hat
who owns a chain of art galleries ventured that an Obama presidency
would give Detroit “a psychological uplift.” Read the entire article here.
New York Times writer decides to spend election night in Detroit.
Excerpt:
After driving down Woodward Avenue, we dropped Marian’s Explorer at
our hotel, then walked to Harmonie Park, a small, recently gentrified,
triangular neighborhood near the baseball stadium.
At Lola’s,
our favorite restaurant, the headwaiter said he felt like a kid on
Christmas Eve, giddy with anticipation but afraid that he might wake up
and be disappointed. A customer said she was on pins and needles, and
her friend expressed the hope that Barack Obama would improve the
country’s image abroad and “not just help the rich but the people who
are really struggling.” An older man in gold earrings and a porkpie hat
who owns a chain of art galleries ventured that an Obama presidency
would give Detroit “a psychological uplift.”
Read the entire article here.
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