The following is by verse responder Leon Freilich. He saw the story in the New York Times.

Brooklyn food sellers win again. First in Red Hook, now in East Williamsburg, where vendors have triumphed over city bureaucrats and saved their business. Inn this case it’s the Moore Street Retail Market.

New York City’s Economic Development Corporation, which controls the early-20th Century public market, had planned to close close vendors’ stalls, displace them and raze replace the building to make way for new housing.

But the vendors collected 25,000 signatures, including those of local bigs Rep. Nydia Velazquez and Assemblyman Vito Lopez, on a petition. Also helping them keep their businesses running in the Latino community was none other than President. Bush.

His contribution was tilting the national economy toward the collapse point, leaving little money for new construction.

Every cloud has a Bush lining. If only.