Light on the StreetOriginally uploaded by Doc Stampede

Sun’s setting on the Lower East Side - reflecting off the windows and casting a gentle mood on the entire area. In the distance, signs of the encroaching future of the area, as new buildings rise every day.

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So here’s a thought for consideration. Thinking about this photo, and reading several blogs that like to lament the loss of New York City as we know it, I ask you this. Why are we screaming and crying? I’m not saying what’s happening is right - I’m questioning why we’re angry. Alot of you are yawkers — you tell me. Why do you think the city has changed, and what does it mean to you?

Is it wrong for a city to change? Is New York City reinventing itself, and if its a genuine shift to a new paradigm is that actually a bad thing?

Change doesn’t come painless - there are spasms and twitches and outright murders, of thought and of ideas, but there are also births of new ideas and new thoughts. Is what we’re going through simply the natural progression of a large city as time passes, or is it something else, something darker and more regrettable?

So tell me folks, what does it feel like to you? And why?

And before you attempt to hang me — most of you know that I’m the first to lament many of the changes that have been happening.  I want to see and hear conversation tho.