This might be the most amazing sentence in today’s New York Times: “Everybody here is scared now,” Primo Dlmn from Morocco said on Tuesday while selling Lemonhead candy and cigarettes at a bodega in the middle of the block.
Though there are some other gems in the same ridiculously-written article:
“On the other side laps the East River.”
“Local residents speculate the shooter — many call him ‘the BB gun sniper’ — must have been a bored teenage boy because firing a BB gun is the kind of thing that bored teenage boys do.”
“One person lost an eye (false).”
“‘I knew about it, but I was born and raised around stuff like that, so I wasn’t nervous,’ James Heckstall, a Postal Service employee, said while making his rounds.”
“‘It used to be terrible around here, the Wild West,’ he said. ‘Now you can at least walk around at night. The neighborhood is getting nicer and nicer. Then, every once in a while, something like this happens, and it makes us look bad.’”
