So much for my hunch that the pre-Olympic demolition crews had forgotten about the old kitchen-supply store and the Peugeot service station out on the block behind us. With less than a month to go before the construction deadline, while we were away on a visa run, the whole stretch got chai'd. Now there's a wide-open view, stark yet oddly pastoral, all the way to the inexplicably celebrated skybridges of the newest Moma complex.
