Up in Smoke

Lincoln Apartments fire --

June 30th, 2006

Five floors --

Camac Street, between Locust and Spruce.

In pic, left of bldg in foreground (where "the lincoln" sign is)--- they' left original name, faded -- now whole place going -- in pic, first 2 top windows still intact, but where 3rd window is, now gone -

Whole middle of bldg sunk in on itself -- damage mainly to inside walls -- whole floors exposed, one dirty grey wall exploded out like false paper wall people break through in shows - long white pipes bent and jutting out like broken pipe cleaners --

thick vines of black wire pulled from top floor all the way to ground

Crane cable lifts up aluminum lifeboat, full of wreckage; charred, green blanket -- dirty, yellow foam rubber, a book, with pages flipping by rainy wind --

fourth floor windows all blown out -- 9/11 --

-- inside walls exposed -- robin's egg-blue painted over brick on third floor, top floor looks like origin of fire -- more badly burned -- beams are black and precarious -- crane (w/diff attachments on end like pulleys on gym equipment) pulls up more debris -- looks like metal arm that lifts prizes in machine on boardwalk -

now up comes door, attached to piece of wooden beam-

inside blue wall looks like it had been there a long time; those are parts that fascinate me: original traces --

soon there will be none -- not even bldg.

Maybe that's why I'm writing -- to record the demolition of more history right outside my window?

condos?

Christ.