Brooklyn has an amazing energy to it, and I love visiting there. Sometimes, it feels like just too much. Americans seem to have this enduring habit of never being able to stop or limit grow, and of letting developers run amok. All around Brooklyn are 69,70 foot towers and strikingly designed office and cultural building. Nature has just vanished from some parts of the city.

We just can’t seem to say no to money. When Emma and Jay bought their apartment, the sun shone in the building for much of the day. Giant skyscrapers now surround their apartment house, and it is pitch dark for much of the day. Someday we may live in a world where the view from people’s windows is considered protected, as Native-Americans protect the water.