Brooklyn Beat of Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn wandered around Brooklyn Heights at noon and had this to say:

Brooklyn Heights at noon on Election Day 2008 is quiet. I did a pass-by
of the Brooklyn Municipal Building which was jammed with lines out the
door this morning. Voters are lined up waiting patiently inside. Not as
amazingly jam packed as the early morning voters, but there is a bit of
a lunch-time line neverhteless. The Tuesday Greenmarket is in action.
The Obama button and t-shirt guys are all out there selling their
wares. Historic election art that I expect to see at the NY Historical
Society (or the Smithsonian) some day, the way that we now see JFK,
Thomas Jefferson, and other historic Americans.

An interesting sense of ownership about this process. A woman, African
American, sitting in the park on Cadman Plaza outside the Supreme Court
building, under the statue of Brooklyn’s famed abolitionist Henry Ward
Beecher, is exhorting passersby to vote. "You have til 9 PM tonite to
vote, please don’t forget to vote" she reminds us warmly. No candidate
mentioned.

As I walked, another couple of young guys chatting, reflecting the
hopes and the fears of this possibly historic day: "I’m just worried,
man, they always go after the great ones." Reminded me of Rage Against
the Machine’s "Wake Up." Shake that off, time for faith and hope.

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Posted By Brooklyn Beat to Deep In the Heart of Brooklyn at 11/04/2008 01:05:00 PM