For just over a year now, I rarely use the 47th Street door to the rectory. If I’m coming from anywhere north of Saint Mary’s, most of the time, I will get to the rectory through the 46th Street door to the parish house. When I returned from the gym about 9:30 this morning, as I reached the corner of 46th Street and Seventh Avenue, a very disturbed man, unkempt, thin, uncared for, perhaps off medication or on something, was aggressively, verbally attacking an older man. The troubled man was African-American, the man being attacked was Asian-American, whom I’ve seen before. I think he may work close to Saint Mary’s.
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