Union Square BID
Union Square's Foibles at .0014 Miles an Hour
It was Friday afternoon, and William Kelley didn't look dressed for getting down and dirty.
The guy was, frankly, styling, in his blue Ralph Lauren polo, plaid pants and black-framed glasses. The only clue that he’d be spending the next two hours on hands and knees, measuring tree pits and jotting down every dangerous crack, hole, puddle, and spot of graffiti along Union Square East was the enormous metal tape-measure strapped weapon-like to his belt.
Mr. Kelley, director of economic development for the Union Square BID, and his partner Victoria Draper, a Howard University-bound graduate of Washington Irving High School, began their two-hour survey at Galaxy Global Eatery – the vegetarian-friendly diner at the corner of 15th Street and Irving Place that has glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling and hawks galaxy-emblazoned rolling paper at the front desk. read more »
