After this first visit I’d like to spend more time in Tompkins Square Park. It’s a cute space. There are some interesting characters, but I felt safe enough there. I read a little about the park’s shadier past, and it’s different now.
This is probably the same hawk that perched on the AC unit in our bedroom window this morning. I was afraid to run for my camera and scare it by my movement, so I laid there and watched it in awe. This time it perched in our neighbor’s window for over an hour. That gave me…