BAGnewsNotes: Rita Madness

Strangely affecting, the poorest parish in NYC was or is St. Rita's in the South Bronx, where I grew up for a time. The church vaulted ceiling is actually the top of a first floor, the congregants meet on the basement floor. Another parish nearby (St. Anne's?) is where Mother Theresa and Princess Diana once met. The former borough president of the Bronx is running against the current Mayor of NYC. Just before 9/11 it was announced the WTC was being sold, and a major local network queried the candidates running in the primary that followed 9/11 what they would do with the money and were rated by their what's the word, possibilities according to experts. Someone should look closer at NYC, I almost drowned in a small storm's storm surge on the FDR, (we missed it by about 35 minutes) and I have seen whole construction site lots fill with water from the underground streams and surrounding water. Like the former WTC, some of the newer sites are surrounded by subterranean walls, excavated and filled with a bentonite slurry, forcing water out, before they are filled with cages of re-bar and concrete, chiseled down into rock, invented by the French I'm told, having watched a French firm do that near Water Street. Donald Trump at one time wanted to build the world's tallest building on the eastside of lower Manhattan on "pillars" in the East River, but terrorists it was thought might blow it up with a boat, it was thought (before 9/11).