5 April, 2011 - 9:03pm
The Hole: a neighborhood in Brooklyn that sits at 30 feet below grade, which makes city sewage connections impossible (houses empty into cesspools). Roosters roam the green spaces, and some of the Federation of Black Cowboys keep their horses at a stable there. The verdant land also offers an attractively dense cover: The Hole is a notorious dumping ground for dead bodies.
Read more here.
Leaves me wanting to know more and see more, but/ so at the same time its brevity is perfect: quiet and defiant, maintaining a level of privacy even as it investigates and shares. It lets us in as it closes us out of some back-pocket/ penny-behind-the-ear inside joke—“the Hole”—a brief little blip on the bustling urban map.
