Friday, July 20, 2007
Jim and Jesse Jane at Home Two Nights Ago ...
With all the buildings being built all around Jim and Jesse Jane it is , when you let yourself really think about it , a bit incomprehensible that Jim and Jesse and a lot of others still have to live on the sidewalk under a tarp in New York City .
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Four Days Sober for Jewels and ...
Wednesday Jewels , our Tompkins Square Park "Jekyll and Hyde" , after 4 good sober days , drank a notable quantity of his prefered alcoholic potion launching again a demon on another day of rage and rampage in the neighborhood.Jewels started drinking early and drank often today . His rampage began on avenue A the usual way . Jewels played in traffic stopping cars and entered restaurants to shake-down patrons and owners alike .
According to witnesses , police were called early in the day by one restaurant with a large number of officers arriving at the scene . As usual no arrest was made . Much of the rest of the day he just drank and raised hell becoming by evening quite drunk and exhausted .
Above a park regular is helping a very shakey and uncertain Jewels walk out of TSP and across the street to the farside of avenue A where he will now after some rest continue his drunken rampage .
Jewels accosts a pair and makes an unsucessful demand for $ 2 .... but he does get a cigarette .
Jewels joins a party of diners at 7A Cafe to again demand money without success .
Jewls blocks the intersection stopping cars demanding money from drivers .
As it prepares to round a corner a church bus is confronted with a demand for money .
A public garbage receptacle is searched for scraps .
This car Jewels caused to back-up 150 ft.
This action is unproductive and Jewels heads back to the sidewalk to prey on individual pedestrians to raise money for booze .
Unkown to Jewels the occupants of this car have called the police . They will also press charges against Jewels .
Jewels accosts this man and when he does not give Jewels the money that he demands , Jewels attacks him at first swinging and then dropping his cane .
Jewels picks up his cane and swings it again in a rage but then as police arrive he surrenders , sitting down on the sidewalk as instructed to do .
Jewels is questioned and cuffed.
Jewels is escorted to a waiting police vehicle and taken away .
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Jim at Work in Astor Place ...
Jim and Jesse Jane were in Astor Place today . Jim , the one and only true "Mosaic Man" , was working on the planter that he started last summer when he was living on the sidewalk in front of 120 St. Marks Place . Somehow Jim was able to move his massive mosaic art work to a prominent location near the subway entrance at this major East Village crossroads .
It seems that we are all back where we were last summer when NMNL began : Jim and Jesse Jane are again homeless and sleeping on a sidewalk in the neighborhood .
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