abbattoir vigilante

I was going to write about the upper east end of the east end, of Manhattan. But Monday night at 2 am I was awoken by a man hurling a 2×4 consistently against the door of the apartment complex across the street from me. He was yelling “you mother fuckers, this is a mother fucking emergency, let me the fuck in. Yah thats right pull the blankets over your ears sleep in your god damn cozy beds while people are dying”. The cops were called. He reappeared again at about 4 am.
The Astral apartments. Home to many old people, affordable to students, an overall trash heap. Bedbug problems are rampant, you must remember to never approach any furniture left for trash pick up. In fact cross the street on trash pick up days because no consequence is worth it. There have also been claims of serious toxic molds and fungi infesting many units. Some tenants say they have found small mushrooms growing from their ceilings.
On top of this a new Astral episode of debauchery has also occurred. It seems the superintendent who would be responsible for exterminating these little mushrooms has been occupying his time by filming amateur porn instead. Not only but shooting boudoir photography! It can be viewed on such websites as “Model Mayham.com”.
The Astral it’s self has a nice little history though. It commissioned by… CHARLES PRATT!! in 1867. Charles Pratt was the once owner of Astral Oil Works, with the slogan “thee holy lamps of Tibet are primed with Astral Oil”. LAter of course Pratt built thee now famous Pratt INstitute one of New York’s finest art schools. The apartments themselves were built in 1885-1886 as housing facilities for the refinery workers. The Astral was designed after the Peabody Apartments in Southwark, London.
Pratt became a multimillionaire by the way of Astral Oil until he of course sold the company to an even bigger company, John Rockefeller’s Standard Oil.
Oh my.