Where Are the Evil College Kids From Hell?

Stuyvesant Oval by Knile.

Like a lot of us, I read the story in New York Press about how these college kids were invading Stuy, and even getting 2 months' free rent and coupons for $500 and turning the Oval into a beach with sun-tanners, dope-smokers and even dog-walkers.

Looking out over Waterside Plaza, and not seeing anything much happening out on the baking tiles except two helicoptering moms with two summer babies squalling (don't worry, they will finally fall asleep this winter) and an elderly women tanning herself and smoking cigarettes who had no intention, ever, in her life, of dying of cancer....

...I realized I had to go where the party was.

Heading over to Stuy, I skirted the edges of what the kids call "the white projects". Traipsing through what our old nanny Larissa used to call belyochiy park (Squirrel Park) in Cooper, I caught up with...an old lady struggling along with her walker and a home attendant in tow. She didn't even have a transistor tuned to a classical station.

Was I too late?