There's no such thing as useless public space.
I had never given any thought to the origin of "Rego Park", the name of a neighborhood in Queens. Nothing about it grabs your attention; it sounds like it was probably named after some guy who owned a lot of farmland or something.
But no! Rego Park, you see, was developed by the Real Good Construction Company, and its name is actually a shortening of Re(al) Go(od). Fascinating! Sort of.
Like Morris and Erasmus, Newtown is one of Charles B.J. Snyder's soaring civic monuments.
I mean, aren't we all, but he was looking for the other kind of cobbler. Despite my intimate relationship with shoes, I was of no help.
At the close of the school day, the sidewalk outside PS 89 was lined with vendors hawking their junk food from shopping carts and other mobile stands.
