Ah, Summer in the City

Summer in New York City...and the living is "easy"??

1. Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful - YouTube

   www.youtube.com/watch?v=m648v4s5sFc
3. Artist: The Lovin' Spoonful
4. Album: Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
5. Released: 1966

Around here, all it means is more sultry nights where "more shit happens" in the sprawling Lower Depths projects around here..

Manhattan Avenue, or "Dogshit Avenue" as it may be more properly called ( because the locals-- Dominican, Puerto Rican, black-- do not have the habit of picking up after their pit bulls and other canines) reeks more than ever in the balmy breezes

The music levels from slumdog apartments rise higher and higher while a change in City law means we hear less of it blasting from cars that go by

It is still only June, so there are still cool periods and plenty of nice days in the Park for picnics and weddings and softball games and the weather has no impact, of course, on all the advanced physical efforts of the population which is devoted to them: running endless 5K and 10K marathons, epic stair climbing, cycling everywhere both in the Park and in the midst of the most congested traffic 

But, when the Dog Days hit, of course, the rich will be off to the Hamptons etc for the weekends and then all the psychotherapists and others will decamp to cooler places for the entire month of August, leaving behind the people who CANNOT escape for some reason

And of course, skyrocketing electric bills for people who have air conditioning and then the blackouts and threats of blackouts..more and more of them...

Maybe rioting and looting if the Fates Allow

The Fourth of July usually marks the time when the "Good Part" of the summer is over here, and we go into the sweltering doldrums with more subway platforms broiling and the a/c systems in the trains failing, and the endless commutes on mass transit grow sweatier and more oppressive

The Rare Days of June still are with us, however, even if the noise levels of Extreme Rap and Hispanic Soul have gone into mega decibels from various dwellings around here

Might as well enjoy the birdsong in the morning and try to forget it is downhill all the way until a while after Labor Day