And again today. Madness and despair and those who look away

The Covid pandemic as it was lived in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 

The 1850 historic Manhattan Synagogue Beth Hamedrash Hagodol, known as the great House of Study, destroyed in a blaze set by a teenager. The contrast with the new high end condominium construction, out of scale to the area and the constricted ways of movement in the painting point to a moral collapse.