Blue Belle
“Once the tip of Spanish Harlem, it was now liberated territory—the yuppie land–grab machine wouldn't be satisfied until gentrification ate the South Bronx. I liked it better the old way, when the human beings lived in the tenements and investment bankers lived in the suburbs. Now we got plenty of rehab apartments for tomorrow's leaders. And more people living in the streets than they have in Calcutta.I parked under the East Side Drive overpass and walked over to the court. Ten minutes to one. I... watched people playing: handball, paddleball, basketball. No stickball. People working too. Working the cars. Selling flowers, newspapers, clean windshields. Ninety–sixth Street was the DMZ when I was coming up. North was theirs, South was ours. Now it all belongs to someone else—they just let us play there while they're at work downtown."These chumps can't play no basketball." A voice behind me. Pablo. The lack of a single Puerto Rican in the NBA makes him crazy.He was wearing his white doctor's coat over a black turtleneck, his round face looking the same way it did when he walked out of Harvard fifteen years ago."Gracias, compadre," I said, thanking him for coming.He shook hands the way he always does, using both of his."Something bad?" he asked me, standing close."I have to meet a man.MoreLess
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