Crossroad
He did not continue down 12th Avenue towards Downtown but took Franklin Roosevelt Drive across West 40th Street.
It was essential that he keep as far away from Martelli and his people as possible. His pass to Jersey was the Holland Tunnel. Mason Stone thought of the disappointment of all those friends who were waiting for him at Seinfield while he pointed the nose of the Ford in a different direction.
The rain had gradually calmed down and now the veil on the road gave the image of a different New York: upside down it hardly looked the same. It is never the city but the people who live in it that make it great, or right, or cursed. Mason couldn't remember a different one and couldn't say he hoped for one. His job was to take out the rubbish and he intended to take at least one
