Neither more nor less

On a rare day last summer in Tompkins Square Park we see L.E.S. Jewels above , whom we have posted of here at NMNL for a year-and-a-half now , relaxed and sober .

Today Jewels is likely sober but he is not in TSP and perhaps not so relaxed . He is on Riker's Island having been sentenced to a year of relatively easy city time . Jewels pleaded to the charges of attempted robbery , assault and assault with a weapon , a cane . Somehow he avoided a more difficult and lengthy stay in a state prison up-state .

With this year-long sentence he will be back on the street at the latest by next July and at the earliest late April of 2008 .

So will he get it together and work towards a worthy life ... or should we put together the betting pools now and start taking odds on when he will first be on a drunken rampage in TSP , his first public urination or perhaps the date of his first mooning of a cop car ... or whatever ?