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[Bobby Williams]
As the sign here near Avenue B notes, "Dog pee is not good for trees (google it)."
We did!
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Maybe we will Bing it too...
Lately many of us have watched in horror as one of our neighborhood's churches is being violently torn down.
Especially difficult for some of our neighbors whose stations of life were honored and celebrated where now is only debris.
The Mary Help of Christians Church had been a steady presence for generations in our ever changing neighborhood.
Generations of immigrants formed communities there to help each other find a path into the American dream.
For more then a year now I have watched them quietly gather and pray outside exposed to every kind of weather.
They are the very last few of an once huge vibrant mostly Italian, Irish and then Puerto Rican community.
So [tonight] they will gather for the last time in front of what was their church and recite the rosary once more.
I will be there, as I hope many of our neighbors, to pay respect to the dignity of their expression of community and its history.
Owner Joe Dobias and his wife, Jill Schulster, will transform the old JoeDoe space—which will relocate in the spring—into a nostalgic blue-plate-special spot, offering comfort-food gone quirky: French-dip dumplings with roast beef and mozzarella, tacos with duck confit and radish, and chili topped with Fritos and jalapeños.