Rearranging the neighborhood, remembering a revolution
On this gray November day, we salute the people of what was once Czechoslovakia on the 14th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, the day they took to the streets and took their country back from the communists, with hundreds of injuries but not a single fatality. A few years later, on January 1, 1993, the Velvet Divorce ensued and the country split peacefully into two nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
All the rearranging going on in our own neighborhood today seems like a fitting tribute. Here are some workers atop the Hudson Reporter building:
and nearby, more workers clearing the way for a brand new building:
