Beth Elohim’s Rabbi Andy Bachman was in Prospect Park along with nearly 7,000 others to catch Bob Dylan’s first show in NYC in five years. It was his first show ever in Brooklyn. Here are some of the Rabbi’s observations:

Interesting sightings: certain people’s dancing styles indicating
they clearly got into Dylan during their own exploration of the
Grateful Dead; yeshiva boys smoking up a storm and acting cool; Police
Commish Ray Kelly moving through the crowd checking on his officers;
the NYFD chilling and watching the show. The faces of those
disappointed that Dylan live sounds NOTHING like Dylan on records. The
weird blue light coming up on people’s faces while they text friends
reports of each song. Damn our digitized world sometimes.

And of course, hanging with my lady, watching an artist do his thing. 

That
he sang of love and war in our age with his own at 67, as Chinen put
it, was true testimony of his own bittersweet longevity.