Rescheduling today’s rooftop wine & cheese event to Sunday at 5pm?

Those of you near a window right now will notice that it is raining. That is a good thing for the lot on 29th & 10th—if the rain gods keep this up, we’ll have an full-blown, full-grown community jungle regardless of whether the tax gods ever grant a public use exemption to the current owners of the lot.

However it is a bad thing for the rooftop wine & cheese event we had planned with Leslie Boghosian Murphy today. The best laid plans of mice and men, and so forth. I originally thought it might make sense to move the event inside to a lounge in my building, but given that we’re still coming out of a bit of pandemic, my second thought was that moving it inside might depress turnout.

And so what we’re going to do instead is propose moving the event to this upcoming Sunday at 5pm. It’s supposed to be 90 degrees and sunny then, so that’s nice. Plus it would stave off my normal Sunday blues. That is also nice.

What’s not clear to me though is what proportion of our neighborhood won’t really be here this weekend—or any of the next few weekends for that matter—because you’re accomplished enough to use “summer” as a verb, etc., etc., and the like. So could you please respond to this email or text me at 585-200-2535 if you would make it at 5pm this Sunday? If enough people respond so that it’s worthwhile for Leslie, we’ll make it happen.

For those of you who are entertaining the idea of coming, allow me a few parting shots. First, if you are one of the people who has written in to me with a problem or issue you’ve identified in the neighborhood, keep in mind that in addition to very possibly being our area’s next NYC Council member, Leslie is on Community Board 4. That is the organization that has the ear of elected officials/city agencies and that is actually responsible for collecting the hot-button issues our community identifies. This would be like if the person who could actually help with your problem started knocking on your door and saying “hey I’d really like to understand your problem.” Open it.

And second, for those of you who like wine, cheese, and having a good time while not really doing anything at all, let me start by saying that I like your style. This would be like if a person with at least three things you like started knocking on your door asking if you’d like to be distracted from work or whatever else you’re worried about right now for an hour. I think you should also open it.

Happy Thursday.