What a difference a day makes.

 Today at 8am Lincoln Place between 7th and 8th was quiet as a clam. Compared to yesterday when it was in police lock down because a mentally deranged woman barricaded herself in her apartment at number 225.

The tense situation was resolved by 1:30 p.m. yesterday when the police were finally able to remove the woman from her apartment. Her name has not been released.

There were more than ten police vehicles on the block, including a SWAT team and a hostage van. Neighbors, reporters and passers-by stood across the street from the building talking about what was going on.

A tenent of the building  told me that the woman, who is said to be an opera
singer, was in an accident 20 years and suffered some kind of head
trauma. "When she's on her meds she's fine. But when she goes off…"

The woman shook her head. "I don't think she has a gun. I feel for her husband. He looked terrible when he came out."