Out My Door

Essentially.  A thirty-one year old unsolved missing child case reopened, and memories resurface for many of us who remember the news coverage all that time ago.  Six year old Etan Patz got permission to walk the very short couple of blocks from his building (blocks in Soho are very small... we are not on the same scale as uptown) to his school bus stop one day back in May, 1979.  He never made it,  and has never been found.  His grieving parents have been forced to live the nightmare all parents fear.  But now new evidence has suddenly given cause for around the clock blockade of a section of Prince Street which falls along the route taken by Etan as he headed for the bus stop.  A buidling's basement there is being jackhammered and searched.  It will take a bit of time to break through all the cinderblocks and cement, but I do not think they will stop until they finish the task.  I went out there last night to document what hopefully will end in a final closure to his mother and father who deserve so much more, but nothing less.  My prayers to the investigators and to them.

A bouquet left on the police barricade in memory.

NYPD and official vehicles.

Traffic in Soho diverted off of Prince St.

News Stations' vans lined up along Wooster, from CNN to foreign news channels.

ABC Eyewitness News van on Prince St.