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‘The Construction Worker Smiled and Lowered His Flag’
An impromptu starting line in Brooklyn, loose change on a sidewalk and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
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Dear Diary:
I was riding my bike in the bike lane on Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn when a construction worker raised a flag at 16th Street.
I stopped and waited alongside another cyclist as a large truck backed out of 16th Street.
When the coast was clear, the construction worker smiled and lowered his flag.
“On your marks,” he said, “Get set. Go!”
— Lisa Goldstein
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Dear Diary:
It was summer 2020, and my girlfriend and I had taken to meandering through Park Slope after work as a break from a feeling of claustrophobia from being stuck in our small apartment.
As we strolled down President Street one evening, we passed an older man sitting on a stoop. He stopped us with an inviting “psst.”
