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The Talk of the Town lifts the monocle to its jaundiced eye and takes a closer look at the Wyckoff Gardens Doughnut Incident, noting that it could have been worse:

A visit to Wyckoff Gardens, last Wednesday, revealed that the doughnut was merely the latest of many pantry items sent aloft. According to residents, the list includes ice, cans, bottles, diapers, batteries, eggs, condoms, and water balloons. “If they were truly aiming at him, they’d have got him,” one woman said, while sitting with several others on a row of benches that faced the offending tower. They were still marvelling at all the cosmetic improvements to the grounds — plastering, pruning, painting — that had quickly been made in the days before the Mayor’s photo op.

The consensus was that the doughnut attack had not been political. “Throw a rat — that’d send a message,” a man said. But one woman, who identified herself as a chef, did have a grievance: with the Mayor’s enthusiasm for gentrification. Along with the new wave of Manhattan transplants to the neighborhood had come restaurants and markets on Atlantic Avenue that were not to her taste. “Not everybody likes their food cold and raw,” she said, referring to sushi. “Not everybody likes their food unseasoned. Not everybody particularly likes organic food. I mean, I’ve done organic food. It’s not tasty.” She was under the impression that the Bloomberg doughnut had been adorned with sprinkles.