Quote: "Kalas" (A.Glass 2020)

 

"Maybe this is another planet's Hell,” Tommy Novik says to himself as he looks out from the small window of the slightly dilapidated one bedroom apartment on the corner of 190 East Mosholu Parkway Street and E204^th Street. A nineteen thirty nine Art Deco apartment building designed by the late architect I.L. Cruasman, the apartment which he pays rent, was bought and then sold by a subsidiary, which was a front for the criminal family that he was once associated with, it was then purchased by the New York State housing, but now, it is back in the hands of the same Mafia family. A process of laundering cash and property through government loopholes. The last reminder of Novik's connection to a past that is all but a faded memory. Yet, this feeling of vexation and its frustration of dealing with the day to day begins to manifest within his mind. As the virus and government lock down of New York continue to impact on the City"