I have had so many coincidencs happen to me that I have been able to recognise the first half before the second occurs. I was crossing 14th street in Manhatten when I got to the corner a young girl asked me which way was East. I pointed to the East and as I was doing it, it occured to me that this was the first half of a coincidence. I thought nothing of it. A few hours later as I returned to cross the same intersection, on the same corner, at the same spot another young girl asked me the same question. Which way was East'? As before I pointed and directed.

I experianced another coincidence that merits mentioning that occured about a year ago and concluded this week. A year ago I was going to Brooklyn via the Manhattan bridge. A very busy bridge with an upper an lower roadway. The time was about 11:30 am on a weekday. As I aproached the bridge in heavy traffic I chosse the lower roadway ramp. When I got on the bridge I noticed that there was not one car in front of me nor one car behind me for the whole length of the bridge. It was totaly errie. I could see the skyline of NYC to my right and Brooklyn in front of me and not one other car on the roadway. It was unerving. I took it as a bad omen. The second half occured this week. I was in a work place with people that I know. One was talking about his trip this past Sunday from Brooklyn to Manhatten and how he drove across the bridge and his was the only one on the roadway at 2:30 in the afternoon. He couldn't understand how that could be. Anybody who has been to NYC knows what an odd occurance this is.
A part of me is frightened by this. Not for myself but for the city I love. The feeling was that there was no one left in NYC.