A building and its people

A building that always made me wonder was the Rutgers Houses in the Lower East Side. It is a housing project meant for low income workers. It is a big flat, brick building, with no decorations and surrounded by a grass and fence. It’s lack of decoration reflects the fact that it was built to be the bare minimum required for the lower classes to live. The emptiness of the area around it is void of ornaments or flyers or signs that people lived there. There are many lights on, shining through the windows. Yet there are precious few people on the steps, on the benches or outside the building. Locals walking by keep their heads down. Boisterous and territorial youth loudly exaggerate their potency and power. As I walk past it, I look at where I came from and how far I have come.