Community Corner
SNOW DAY IN PARK SLOPE
BREAKING NEWS: (most) New Yorkers and School Children Get a Snowday, City Was Quiet
A snowday is a special holiday. It’s unexpected, unpredictable, and usually we only get to know a few hours in advance if it is going to happen. But there is also another aspect of a major city in a snowstorm - the quiet. And last night was unprecedented quiet with the travel ban on the streets, and the lack of rumbling subways below our feet. It was almost like the blackouts in NYC we’ve experienced. Without the lights, we start noticing other things, like the stars, or lack of a television and talking to the person sitting next to us. With with last night’s “sound-out” we noticed what NYC rarely gets to hear... the quiet.
Park Slope based band anacortes recorded their first single A Great Unknown, a song about the quiet of NYC in a snowstorm, during the last rare school closing, in Park Slope’s backyard of Prospect Park. The song perfectly captures the joy of a snowday, and the quiet that envelops a major city along with snow.
We wanted to share the fun song and video with our Park Slope neighbors, and hope you enjoy it as much as we did recording it.
