A Crime Is Being Committed Here

I was walking along Myrtle the other day and I saw this vacant lot with crime tape wrapped along the fence. The lot, between Nostrand and Marcy, has seen its share of illegal dumping, but I started to think that maybe something worse had happened there. Was someone shot there? Did someone find a dead body in there? (A dismembered body was found a couple of blocks from this location a month ago, so it’s not an unreasonable assumption.)

When I got closer, I noticed that the tape read, “A Crime is Being Committed.” It was an ad for Michael Moore’s movie, Capitalism: A Love Story! Given the amount of mortgage fraud in our neighborhood, they probably should’ve strung that yellow tape all along Flushing, down Broadway, across Atlantic and back up Classon.

I was planning to see Capitalism: A Love Story this week. I really like Michael Moore, so I know I’m going to enjoy this movie. Has anyone else seen it yet?

Capitalism: A Love Story is currently playing at BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.