The color of Crown Heights

I was pacing in 770. There are only flashes of people and faces that shine though the crowd. Only few I recognized. The mass of people appeared grey. I remember in Russia going to Shule was a feast, seeing Jewish faces was an inspirational relief from the dull Russian peasant expressions. I did not see it in 770. The sea of faces is detached and demonstratively mediocre as unrelatedness prevails.