Jim Jasper
Published in Cura Magazine, Fordham University, Spring 2019, Issue 20.
It is a community garden—for now—but in the winter of 1979, it was a building. Fallow and dilapidated, ruined yet hallowed, the building stood upon a hill between two abandoned lots—a crude depiction of the beliefs that promulgated the Forefather’s journey. Once it was a five-story walk-up that for generations housed affluent Jews, but after the construction of an expressway had granted them the ability to fly, those not given wings did what they’d always done when forced into an abandoned nest, live the danger…..
