A guy who looks like Paulie Walnuts, one of Tony Sopranos guys, with slicked hair and a beige and gold bomber jacket, is chewing and spitting sunflower seeds on the corner. He’s standing next the entrance to Fine Fare Market, which houses a whole refrigerated aisle dedicated to Dominican salamis.
An Orthodox Jewish kid passes him, balancing on an electric scooter, one hand on the handlebars, the other on a very full shopping cart. He moves down the sidewalk slowly, awkwardly hunched over the cart, bouncing and wobbling on each crack and pothole.
A father and his son, about 6, pass the Jewish kid going the other direction. The father looks like he was in a successful alternative band in the aughts. His hair is gray and long-but-not-too long. The son is wearing a three piece suit with coattails. I hope it’s for a revolutionary war reenactment, not civil, because it is a gray suit, not blue.