She even got a bit part in a movie. Jeff Thomas drills into a marble slab at the Benaroya Concert Hall construction site. The one-inch bit sends up clouds of fine dust in an unending scream. It's Hammering Man, a quiet abstraction in a workaday world. In five minutes, only 25 emerge from the underground bus route.
Half wear tennis shoes.
Three wear hiking boots. There are canvas pumps and Hush Puppies, but only two pairs of klunky uptown platforms. A woman yawns. This is not New York. The flashing lights of Medic 1 reflect in the tired eyes of a bent man standing by the door to the Downtown Emergency Service Center.